Win7 and Photoshop CS2 installation & others???

Hi All

I completed my new PC build a few days ago (i5 760, 8GB RAM, three HHDs etc) this is OS Windows7 64 bit

So far so good. I have already installed without issue IDImager and Qimage now the way I have setup the HDDs is the C drive has the OS and is partitioned so has E drive and I have & will be installing all the programs on this E drive i.e. the default location so far has been ProgramFiles(x86) but I change that to my prefered location in the root of the E drive.

The two programs so far are stated by the developers as being W7 64 bit compatible.

However, we now come to my CS2 ~ Googling reveals differing views as to whether this installs "simply" oddly even the W7 software compatibility page lists CS, CS3, CS4 and CS5 but not CS2 ~ doh!!!

Therefore what is the best method to install CS2 (or indeed any software that is not stated by the developer as being W7 64bit OK) ~ there is a strange workaround relating to altering the default path but is that the same as my choosing the location??? Or is it best to install in 'compatibility mode' Windows XP SP3 seems to be the default choice for such a step though the dropdown of the list is long and includes the likes of Windows 2000 (this was what I used CS2 on before).

TIA for your user insight and experience of this issue.

I'm running Win7-64bit in my i7-860 HPE with an ATI 5450 video card....and with both CS and the older PS6
...PS6 works great, and though CS had some hiccups at its startup for a couple of days, it has gotten in a groove and is working fine now
...don't know if the problem was a 32bit program in a 64bit OS or with the ATI v-card...but just thought I'd pass my experience on to you...so you won't worry...

Hi

Thanks for the feedback Though I did not think to look for PS6 on the W7 site CS was listed as AOK but in my situation it is CS2 and based on the sparse Adobe & MS info it does suggest something changed in CS2 that was 'fixed' in CS3

Windows 64bit versions can run 32 bit apps in an XP mode if necessary.

Hi Guys

Thanks for the feedback & thoughts

As for the PSCS2 installation, having read up some more I decided to take a restore point and have a go and this maybe where one of the suggested methods where one should use a modified "install" path could be why a Progs partition was good for me??? I have installed it AOK on that partition and all seems well and happy with it and for the record my W7 had been fully patched and the Adobe updates went like clockwork.

Therefore so far so good

Edit ~ forgot to say this was straight install i.e. not using compatibility mode.