Photoshop CS2 denying administrative privileges

I haven’t shared the How to tip, here for quite a while. But as an adobe CS2 user for ages (and happy with it) I have to share my frustration with getting cs2 to run on Windows 7.

I tried forums, I tried calling Adobe. I tried all that I can think of (below is the fix). In the end, when I figured out the solution, Adobe told me “We no longer support this product so we will not bother with this tip” (actually paraphrased, not a real quote).

Hope this helps you With your Photoshop Error Message.

http://forums.adobe.com/message/1668542
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2774322

Photoshop CS2 denying administrative privileges

You are not allowed to continue because your account does not have the proper privileges.
I have just installed Adobe Photoshop CS2 on my Windows 7 Pro 64 Laptop.

When I try to run Adobe CS2, I get a message in a window titled “Adobe Activation” saying: “You are not allowed to continue because your account does not have the proper privileges. Please log in using an account with administrator privileges and try again.”

I am logged in as an administrator and have installed all my applications using the same login. Though the version I have installed is not yet registered, I am unable to even get to the registration screen as once you click OK on the dialogue, Adobe Photoshop closes.

Here is a fix:

Open windows explorer and go to “C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS2” directory; Find the Photoshop.exe and right click on the highlighted file name and Left click on Properties. Click on the top Compatibility tab. Under Compatibility check the box to “Run this program in Compatibility mode for” Windows XP (Service Pack 3) and click OK. Double click and Open the Adobe Photoshop shortcut. skip registration for now. Proceed with registration. Adobe updater will come up with an error but the software will run fine.

 

Instagram Crash

usually fount at instagr.am now nowhere to be seen. Instagram is down

instagram dns notice

screen shot of instagram error

 

 

I would have never thought in a million years that Instagram would have their data hosted on someone else’s server. But as the error reads, the folks at instagram got many notices to relocate to the new dns.
SO it’s not really a crash, rather it is an eviction notice.

But on the good side
Everything is back up and running.
This is good. For instagram
Was spooky seeing so many angry women on Facebook
lol

Server Outages sept16-2010

I have been watching servers go down in waves since about 8 am central time. No info yet as to what may be the cause.
IMHO one hub/ major server is down and we are now being temporarily routed through another, and well now we are bottle necking.
but who can tell?
We shall see.

I do know that Internet is not down, just some locations can not be reached.
alexa servers just went down, twitter went down. but twitter could have been nailed by an influx of people saying “WTF?”.
Just saw facebook stumbled also.
Affiliate advertising company website Adbrite.com was down.
We at truxtertech.com were down for about 15 minutes here.

***added***
Well, so far there is no message saying what happened. Anyone know? I know this information will not help anything, other than make me stop asking “WTF”.