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2 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
 Love The Program - Learning To HATE Activation (I Have Multiple Drives), 2007-03-28
I've always been a HUGE fan of Adobe software, and the CS2 Suite is awesome and have been using it for almost a year now with much enjoyment and ZERO problems ...until I got a nasty virus and had to format my drive and reinstall Windows. Re-activated CS2 with no problems on the fresh install...and then the headaches started today! Supposedly I'll get an e-mail within 48-hours with some special patch to fix the problem because I run several drives. (Seems to me most serious CS2 users would use at least 1 other drive for a scratch disk -I have my OS on 1, swapfile on another, and the scratch on a third). I paid for my software and Adobe got their money.
At this point, it would be MUCH easier to install any one of the many cracks/hacks that simply "bypass" activation rather than wait for some magic patch from Adobe that I supposedly have to call them for EVERY time I re-build Windows (or upgrade my OS, add/replace a drive, a RAID, etc).
You've been forwarned. Good luck! (you'll need it!)
Activation is a BAD idea, it only harms the honest people, and Adobe's Activation is flawed. The hackers don't pay for software and have less headaches!
 A great piece of software, 2006-11-18
It takes some time to learn, but the investment really pays of. At the moment, I am only using Photoshop and Acrobat, still need to get to the other applications. I need to integrate a lot of picture elements into business presentations, and Photoshop does the trick just fine.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Note to RAID Users, 2006-04-13
If you have more than one hard drive and have them as a RAID drive, then you need to contact Adobe by phone (the number is on the registration page) and ask for the RAID patch.
Every time I ran any of the programs, I was asked to re-register until I was finally locked out. I simply called Adobe and the semi-helpful customer service person did finally ask if I was had a RAID drive.
By the way, with RAID 0 and 1GB of RAM you can run two or three applications very quickly. I have another two drives configured as RAID 1, where I store all of my important documents and files.
So I have four 160GB drives, two set to RAID 0, where all of the applications are stored, and two set to RAID 1, where all documents are automatically backed-up.
20 of 20 customers found the following review helpful:
If you're running a RAID configuration with this watch out!, 2006-01-08
Well it finally happened. My luck finally ran out with this newest version of Adobe's Creative Suite software. I'd read horror stories in the past about the software activation causing problems on certain user's machines, but I hadn't experienced any issues myself until I upgraded to the new CS2 version.
Everything was fine until my DVD-RW drive went bad and had to be replaced. That started what would be a long, irritating chain reaction of events that took me a couple of days to get resolved. Once the DVD-RW drive was replaced, I kept getting prompts to re-activate my software because "my system configuration had changed." The software couldn't do the repair activation automatically, so I had to call for assistance. I talked to a tech support representative and she gave me the activation code to supposedly fix the problem and it seemed to work until the next day.
When I arrived at the office the next day and launched Photoshop I was asked to re-activate the software again. I was shocked, but went ahead and clicked the activation button. It seemed to work, but I had to do the same thing when I launched InDesign and Acrobat as well. Then I noticed something strange. When I rebooted the machine after lunch I was prompted to re-activate all the software once again. I knew something wasn't right so I called Adobe's tech support. After talking with a few support agents, it was discovered that the RAID configuration on my workstation was causing a conflict with Adobe's activation software. I was issued a patch and so far the problem hasn't re-occurred.
I'm getting a little tired of all this activation crap. All it seems to do is cause problems for honest, legitimate users. The pirates aren't affected because they are running cracked versions with the activation taken out anyway.
48 of 48 customers found the following review helpful:
A cost effective way to get the industry standards., 2005-10-11
Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat are the industry standard in their respective applications and purchasing Creative Suite is more cost effective than purchasing each component individually.
One point to pay close attention to is the RAM requirement for this software. If you want to run just one application at a time, you need a minimum of 384MB. To run more than one application, you need at least 512MB with 1GB recommended by Adobe. CS2 checks the RAM on installation and will not even install on a computer with less than 384MB.
Another point is that you are not buying the software. You are licensing it from Adobe and agreeing to their terms and conditions. Part of the agreement is that you can make a limited number of copies of your CD's and that you can install CS2 on a second computer such as a laptop as long as you don't run it at the same time as your primary computer. I had planned to do this, but ran into the RAM limitation on my laptop which is an older machine. It can run Photoshop 5.0 by itself, but not CS2. I tried to install Photoshop CS only instead of the entire CS2 package but it would not accept the registration number. Adobe support told me that installing individual components of CS2 is forbidden and will not work. You can only install the entire package. This will not affect your primary computer since it is what you are buying the software for in the first place. But in this case, I may have been better off just buying the parts that I need and can use on the laptop rather than paying to upgrade my RAM.
Once installed, Adobe CUE CS2 is programmed to start when you turn on your computer. However, you can stop it from doing so if you don't want it hogging all of your RAM when you are not using CS2.
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