How to uninstall adobe cc. Remove photoshop from your computer. Removal using the most efficient and simple method available
There are many alternatives to Adobe products on the market, but often users face a problem when uninstalling these programs. For some inexplicable reason, Windows allows Adobe to behave like a family of malware that refuses to leave without a fight.
Fortunately, there are no unsolvable problems. So how do you remove adobe creative cloud from your computer completely?
Uninstallation problems
Adobe Creative Cloud take up a lot of system space. Even if you follow their recommended minimum requirements (8GB of RAM, etc.), you might have to come to terms with the loud hum of your computer's cooler. In addition, background processes consume vital CPU and memory.
Removing Adobe Creative Cloud from auto-launch via Control Panel will not work. Even when disabled from "launch applications", these products come back as a ghost on next restart.
Stubborn programs are removed in safe mode, but there should be lighter alternatives. Attempting to uninstall ACC through the control panel will fail.
Try uninstalling Adobe products using external cleaning utilities. For example, CleanMyPC. It has a multi-uninstaller option that removes most stubborn programs. But for some reason this function does not work for everyone with Adobe products. Even when trying to delete one by one, some get an error message.
Fortunately, the company itself provides an easy way to get rid of their products for good with the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool. Unlike other Adobe products, this program is intuitive and fast. After installation, run the program as administrator.
Once the .exe file has loaded, you must first select a language option. 
In the disclaimer box, enter Y and click.
It is at this stage that you can view the entire range of installed ACCs in one place. If you want to get rid of all of them, press 1. It really, forever gets rid of the entire Adobe family. The whole process takes about five minutes and this takes into account the restart of the computer.
Press "y" to confirm and you will soon see a message that a certain program has been removed.
Howuninstall Adobe Creative Cloud from Explorer sidebar in Windows
One of the features of the ACC subscription is the online synchronization of documents and user settings. While many users find this feature useful, such as the one they use for Photoshop and other assets, Dropbox is not used by others and prefer to store and sync files in a different way.
It is important to note that the following steps do not actually delete the root folder of the program. You can still manually access this folder, which by default is located at C: \ Users \ Creative Cloud. These steps also don't disable actual Creative Cloud file storage or sync functionality. To do this, you need to launch the application, click the gear icon and go to Settings> Creative Cloud> files with the word “sync” set to Off. 
To remove Creative Cloud from the sidebar of File Explorer, you need to change your Windows Registry entry. Launch Registry Editor by pressing Windows Key + R on the desktop and type regedit in the Run box. Press the Enter key on your keyboard to launch the utility and authorize all User Account Control requests.
Now you need to find the correct registry key, which will vary depending on your specific Windows configuration, but will be located somewhere in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT \ CLSID key. Most quick way find the correct location - find it using the Find command. With the Registry Editor selected, press Control + F on your keyboard to open the search box. Enter Creative Cloud files in the Find box and uncheck Keys and Values.
The first result will most likely be a post that looks like the screenshot above. If you get a different result, keep pressing F3 on your keyboard to search for other entries until you get one that looks like an example screenshot.
The .IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree parameter needs to be changed. Double click on it to change its value, the default will be 1, you need to change it to 0 (zero). Click OK to save your changes.
Alternatives to ACC
Use GIMP instead of Photoshop. It can even be stylized and made to look like Photoshop.
Scribus works as an alternative over InDesign, Inkscape over Illustrator, and Digicam over Lightroom. For Linux users, the above programs will work as well.
Foxit is one of the best alternative PDF readers.
If you're looking for similar features and functionality to Premiere Pro or After Effects, Final Cut Pro is a worthy alternative.
Output
There is little doubt that the Adobe family of products are some of the best in the design business. Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Illustrator, LightRoom, InCopy, InDesign have left their mark with their rich features. However, it is almost impossible to remove adobe creative cloud from your computer completely without Creative Cloud Cleaner.
Having trouble uninstalling Adobe Creative Cloud products from your Windows 10 PC? If you find good alternatives to Adobe products, you may no longer want to keep them on your computer.
For some inexplicable reason, Windows 10 allows Adobe products to behave like a resilient family of malware that refuses to go away. This is certainly not a very good design.
Frustrated uninstalling Adobe products
Adobe Creative Cloud products take up a lot of space on your system. Even if you meet the recommended minimum requirements (8GB of RAM, etc.), you might have to put up with laptop fan noise. It is also a shame that so many background processes are consuming vital CPU and memory resources.
It is also very difficult to remove Adobe Creative Cloud from autorun. Even when you disable Adobe Creative Cloud from startup, these products come back like a ghost the next time you restart.
While you can uninstall stubborn programs like these in Safe Mode, there should be easier alternatives. Attempting to manually uninstall any Adobe Creative Commons product is not possible.
You can try uninstalling Adobe products using external cleaning utilities. I tried to do this with CleanMyPC. It has a multi-installer option that really removes most stubborn programs. But not Adobe. Even if you try to uninstall Adobe products one by one, you will receive the following error message.
Easy Way Out - Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool
Luckily, Adobe has provided an easy way to get rid of their products permanently with the Creative Cloud Cleaner tool. The download link, however, is a bit tricky to find and it took me a little googling to get there. Unlike other Adobe products, this program is lightweight and should work quickly. After installation, you must run the program as administrator.
Once the .exe file is downloaded, you must first select a language. Select e for English.
In the disclaimer box, enter y and continue.
This is where you can view the entire Adobe Creative Cloud Product Range in one place. If you want to get rid of all of them, press 1. It really is that easy to get rid of the entire Adobe family for good. All this takes about five minutes and a new reboot of the PC.
Press y to confirm, and very soon you will see a message stating that a certain Adobe program has been removed.
Alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud products
We have several helpful articles offering free alternatives to Adobe Creative Cloud products:
- Use GIMP instead of Photoshop. You can even make it look like Photoshop.
- Use Scribus instead of InDesign, Inkscape instead of Illustrator, and Digicam instead of Lightroom. While this article is for Linux systems, all of these Adobe alternatives can be used from Windows PCs.
- Foxit is one of the best PDF reader alternatives that I recommend.
If you're looking for the same features and capabilities as Premiere Pro or After Effects, Final Cut Pro is a decent alternative.
Conclusion
There is no doubt about it. that Adobe family products are some of the best in the design business. Adobe Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, Illustrator, LightRoom, InCopy, InDesign have left their mark with their rich features. However, once installed, they are not easy to uninstall without Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner.
Hello everyone. Let's talk about such an interesting program as Adobe Creative Cloud. You may ask, why is she interesting then? But the fact that I do not know anything about her at all and have not even heard. So I wondered what kind of program it was, here's a joke. So, I started looking on the Internet for information and immediately stumbled upon the official Adobe website, where it is written that Creative Cloud is kind of an excellent solution for creating a creative project. Hmm, what does that mean?
I read on. It is written that Adobe Creative Cloud is a quick launch and update of programs (meaning probably Adobe's programs), shared access to Creative Cloud data, as well as managing this data. There is also a download of some fonts from Adobe Typekit and some high-quality royalty-free resources, and all this through the Creative Cloud program. You can demonstrate your type creative project on Behance (also not clear what kind of game). But do you know what else is being written? Most importantly, Creative Cloud is always at hand and you can safely focus on your creativity! Well what can I say, this program turns out for some creative people, well, there are artists, designers, in short, who are doing something ...
Okay. Let's see what this Adobe Creative Cloud program is all about, I'll try to download it on a test PC and show you, I hope there won't be any problems. So I downloaded from the official Adobe Creative Cloud website, downloaded the CreativeCloudSet-Up.exe installer:
I launched it and thought that everything would be fine now .. In general, then something began to swing there:
It didn’t swing so fast, but maybe it’s a trawl on the Internet, it’s really not very fast. Well, after it was downloaded there, there was a window where you need to enter your username and password .. Then the thought immediately jumped, what is the username and password? Damn, this is something unexpected, I thought. But since I was terribly curious about what kind of program it was, I registered right in this window, fortunately there was no difficulty! I would show you a picture, but the fact is that I am writing this after I have registered, but I haven’t thought of making a picture of the process ...
By the way, the following shortcut appeared on the desktop:
How do you appearance Creative Cloud? If you take only the outer part, it looks good to me.
What is the Creative Cloud program for? As I understand it, this is some kind of program manager from Adobe. With the help of Creative Cloud, you can install programs such as Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and others, there are quite a few of them. That is, Creative Cloud is like a free control center for Adobe products, you know? Look, there are tabs at the top of Creative Cloud, so I selected the Home tab:
We skip the Apps tab, I showed it at the top already, but the Resources tab:
Community tab:
By the way, on the Resources tab, there are also sub-tabs such as Files, Fonts, Market. I don't really understand why this is all, but it's a little interesting ... But now there is no time to deal with this = (
Also in the upper right corner there is a gear button, if you press it, there will be a program menu:
In general, the word Creative immediately reminded me of a company that deals with sound cards, it is also called. At first I even thought that this is a program from this company, and not from Adobe, such things gentlemen.
Let's take a look at the Creative Cloud settings, to do this, open the program menu and select the Preferences item there:
Here are the settings:
Look, there are no special settings here. You can uncheck the Start at login box so that the program does not start itself, you can also turn off notifications, in short, the settings are really not enough. But this is the General tab in the settings, and there is also the Creative Cloud tab, let's activate it too:
Well, there are not too many settings here either. In short, okay, I'll just say that there is nothing complicated here, if you decide that you will use Creative Cloud, then I think it will not be difficult for you to figure out the settings =)
Now let's see what processes Creative Cloud is running under .. Launch the manager:
I go to the Processes tab, look there .. And I see that processes such as Adobe CEF Helper.exe, Creative Cloud.exe, AGSService.exe, AdobeIPCBroker.exe, CCLibrary.exe, CCXProcess.exe are working there:
The fact that these are all processes from Adobe, then this infa is one hundred percent, believe me. However, what's more interesting is that processes are not started from the same folder. Well, look, Adobe CEF Helper.exe is launched from here:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Adobe \ Adobe Desktop Common \ HEX
The Creative Cloud.exe process starts from here:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Adobe \ Adobe Creative Cloud \ ACC
AGSService.exe from here:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Adobe \ AdobeGCClient
AdobeIPCBroker.exe from here:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Adobe \ OOBE \ PDApp \ IPC
CCLibrary.exe from here:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Adobe \ Adobe Creative Cloud \ CCLibrary
CCXProcess.exe from here:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Adobe \ Adobe Creative Cloud \ CCXProcess
So what do you think? I THINK THAT A LOT OF PROCESSES THAT !!!
By the way, then I also found the CoreSync.exe process, it's like from the Adobe Sync program, synchronization is something like ...
Damn, guys, I found another process. This is Adobe Desktop Service.exe, think? The process starts from this folder:
C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Common Files \ Adobe \ Adobe Desktop Common \ ADS
Damn guys, there are a lot of processes in general!
I completely forgot. The Creative Cloud program also puts its icon in the tray, here it is:
And if you right-click on it, there will be such a menu:
But we have already seen this menu !!! It is also called by the gear button in the program itself! By the way, you see there is a thing about Creative Cloud Files? Now, if you select it, the Creative Cloud Files folder will open, for which I do not know for sure. I read it on the Internet, that's right, this folder is for those files that you want to be stored in the cloud. It turns out that there is cloud storage of files in Creative Cloud, that's a joke. But what's more interesting, if you have a full membership in Adobe Creative Cloud or if you have a subscription to a separate application, then you are given 20 gigs of cloud space. And if there is nothing paid, then it seems like they give 2 gigs in total. Well, if Creative Cloud for workgroups / corporations, then all 100 gigs give you there, which is not sickly !!!
So guys. I understand. But it's time to put things in order. Do you agree? Well look. I will direct the marafet on my computer. You can do the same if you like.
How do I uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud completely from my computer?
Yes that's right. I decided to uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud, then clean the system from traces, and then for dessert, clean the system in general from all debris. Are you with me? Well, look, whatever you want, I will not persuade ...
Go. Press Win + R, a window will appear, you paste this command there:
A window will appear with a list of programs that are on your PC. Here you need to find Adobe Creative Cloud, right-click and select Uninstall there:
Clicked? Okeyushki! Now you need to confirm your choice, click Delete:
A magical and mysterious deletion process has begun:
Hmm, it has been removed for about two minutes. And the program is so small, don't you agree? Nevertheless, as we saw, she brought goodness into the computer normally, so decently .. A lot of processes .. I didn’t even say that the service there was also delivered from Adobe, probably something was registered in the autoload too .. Even the computer slowed down a little .. In short, guys, it was removed in the end for about three minutes, this is a bit too much .. But it left all the same:
Additional PC cleaning from Creative Cloud traces
So, we've uninstalled Creative Cloud. And then a question, is that all? And I will answer. No, not all. It is also advisable to clean the Creative Cloud from traces. Press Win + E, a window will appear, there is a text field in the upper right corner, insert Creative Cloud there and wait:
Well, we are gaining patience and waiting for you .. You want to tell me about the garlic? I thought that there would not be much .. But there were not so few guys, but well, take a look:
What's that going on? Why isn't Creative Cloud cleaning up my trash can? Oh, what a joke that! Guys, great moment! In short, do you see the Creative Cloud Files folder here? There may be your files, well, which are in the cloud. In general, look, do not delete this folder, if there are necessary files there, check for every fireman what's inside, okay? Do you understand what I mean? Well, in short, I think you have already figured out what to do, you just need to take it and remove it all, so to speak, sweep the tracks. We selected all files and folders, right-clicked and select Delete:
Then a window pops up with the text saying, do you really want to delete the files or are you kidding? Well, of course it's real, click Yes:
So, attention, I have all gone in a bunch:
There are no words, it's just super-chick, from the first try and everything in a bundle without crap, tears of joy ...
Hmm, now what? Do not relax, we have one more task. Cleaning the registry. And what to do, will we clean it by half or what? No, this is not our way, it will not work that way, we are serious people! Press Win + R, insert the command:
Click OK, His Majesty the Registry Editor will start:
This is a cool and powerful program. Contains a huge amount of any incomprehensible game. But we just don't touch anything here, otherwise there will be problems. In this window, hold down Ctrl + F, there will be a search box, write Creative Cloud there, on the contrary, click the find button:
And again, to be honest, I don't know if there is something or not .. But let's see ... The search then started:
Hmm and here's the first frame:
So stop. You need to tell in a nutshell what is going on here, right? This window contains sections and keys. It will be located one at a time. All that was found, it all contains the Creative Cloud: either in the title or in the content! We delete all this. Then press F3 to move the search further. Then again something will be found and this is also deleted and so on until a message pops up that nothing has been found. It's easy to delete: right-click on the section / key and select Delete from the menu, everything is standard. There is a key at the top of the picture, right-click and select Delete:
Once again, if it seems that the key has nothing to do with Creative Cloud, then double-click on it and you will understand everything. As you clicked Delete, there will be such a warning, well, in short, click Yes:
If there is a section, then delete it too. But I had no partitions! There were two or three keys and then such a window:
In general, such things.
General system cleaning with CCleaner
Guys, I won't bother you too much. I'll just write a few words. In short, there is a CCleaner program, you know? No? Well, you shouldn’t! Read about it on the Internet. The program effectively cleans the computer from junk files. Download, install, it is free and without viruses (if you download it from the official site, of course). Then run it, in the Cleaning section, click Analyze:
Garbage will be searched for on the PC, when found, then click Clean:
HERE AND FSE! Complicated? No, no, no! So you can try to do a general cleaning on your computer.
The only thing that I looked at later in the task manager, but the AGSService.exe process remained there. Here is a scoundrel. But I'll figure it out, but not this time! I find out where the legs grow in general.
Guys, I confess, I’m exhausted = (I wrote you a lot of stuff here, how to do this, and damn it I don’t even know, at least someone will read it in full? strength, and I wish you good luck and good mood!
It often happens that you need to install an Adobe product, and the system gives errors. The fact is that previously installed products, after their removal, can leave behind a lot of debris. Therefore, these errors are revealed. To avoid such problems, you must correctly uninstall programs. And only after the correct removal of old programs, install new ones. In this article, we will look at how to properly uninstall the program.
Advice
For the best removal of programs, you will need utilities such as Windows Instaler CleanUp Utility, Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool, and CCleaner. Free versions of these programs can be downloaded from the official sites.
This is the first program we will use. Install the program, if it is not already installed. Then we hold down the Win + R keys, a window appears in which we enter the regsvr32 jscript.dll command and press "Enter". Next, you need to enter the regsvr32 vbscript.dll command and press "Enter" again. This will generate two libraries - one for javascript and one for visual basic script. These libraries will be useful when installing Adobe products.
Let's move on to the new utility. Open "Service", where you want to uninstall previous versions of Adobe programs. Now open the directory operating system, open the Program Files Common Files folder and check them for the presence of Adobe folders. If such folders are found, then they must be deleted. Now open the utility again, go to the Registry tab, click Search for problems (can be found at the bottom of the screen). The program will start searching, and then you need to click "Fix". When prompted to save a backup copy, you must agree and also "Correct the marked".
We extract the utility from the archive, and also run it. When installing the utility, you will be prompted to select a language, select English. We confirm the choice and press "Enter". Now you need to accept the license agreement and press "Enter" again. Now a window opens where we have to choose from which Adobe package we want to remove the leftovers. We select what needs to be cleaned, and also press "Enter" again.
Is the uninstallation process complete?
This is not the end of the process. Despite the fact that a sufficient number of actions were taken, anyway, a number of programs could leave traces that are not easy to remove, even with so much effort. We need to use one more utility for complete removal.
Press the button and that's it
The latest utility to come to grips with Adobe. Here you need to find everything that starts with the words Adobe. Now select what is required, remove it using the "Remove" button. Now it's done. We reboot the computer and that's it.
Output:
To completely uninstall Adobe programs, as well as the files and folders that appeared along with them, you need to download several utilities and follow the instructions in this article. Then everything will be deleted correctly, and will not cause any problems in the future.
Uninstall Adobe from PC
How to uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud
Recently, many questions have arisen not only about installing Adobe Creative Cloud products, but also about uninstalling them. So, let's look at how to use standard Windows methods and use the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to clean the system of adobov products. Run Start> Control Panel> Programs> Uninstall a program. Select the application you want to uninstall, right-click on it and select: Uninstall.
This will launch the standard Adobe Creative Cloud window for the application to be removed, do not forget to check the box in front of the item: Remove settings. And click on the button: Delete.
The process of removing the program components will begin:
Adobe After Effects CC has been successfully uninstalled. Click on the button: Close.
Download the utility from the official website:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/creativecloud/cleanertool/win/Adobe_Creative_Cloud_Cleaner_Tool.zip
Platform version of Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/creativecloud/cleanertool/mac/AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.dmg
Run AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.exe.
Choosing a language: e it's English and press Enter.
We confirm the continuation of work by driving y and pressing Enter.
We are informed that all files and file associations will be removed. Drive in y and press Enter.
After successful removal, we receive the message: Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool completed successfully. We close the utility.
The utility log files can be found here: for Windows 8, 7, or Vista: C: \ Users \\ Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.log and for Mac OS X: / Users // Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.log.
Now let's check the operation of the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool for Mac platform.
- Back up all files located in Adobe product directories, including installed custom plug-ins and profiles.
- To uninstall Creative Cloud or Creative Suite applications, choose Applications> Utilities> Adobe Application Installers in the Finder.
- Double click the utility to uninstall the corresponding application.
- Follow the instructions on the screen to complete the uninstallation procedure.
- Restart your computer.
- Download the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool for Mac.
We make a double click on the archive: AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.dmg.
The process of opening the AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.dmg archive will start.
We make a double click on the shortcut: Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool.
Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool is a program. The object was downloaded from the internet. Are you sure you want to open this object? Click on the button: Open.
Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool requires changes. Enter a password to enable this action. Enter the password and click on the button: OK.
We accept the license agreement, for this we click on the button: Accept.
In the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool window, select the system, and everything related to Adobe: All.
Click on the button: Cleanup selected.
We confirm our choice: Yes.
At the end of the deletion, click on the button: Quit.
Download from the official website a utility with support for uninstalling Adobe Creative Cloud 2020 products (and below) using direct links:
http://download.macromedia.com/SupportTools/Cleaner/win/AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.exe
http://download.macromedia.com/SupportTools/Cleaner/mac/AdobeCreativeCloudCleanerTool.dmg
