Removing adobe cs3 completely

If you plan to reinstall the Adobe Creative Suite 3 on the same machine, then consider keeping your activation. For information see Activation, deactivation Adobe products. Tip: Watch a movie that shows how to run the uninstaller on Windows XP:. Tip: Watch a movie that shows how to run the uninstaller on Windows Vista:. Download and install the Creative Cloud desktop app. Double-click the installer file Creative Cloud Uninstaller.

Depending upon your security settings, you may receive a warning to open the uninstaller from the mounted DMG file. Select Open to continue. You can pick the executable from any machine which has the latest Creative Cloud desktop app installed. The executable is located at:. Create a program and use the Creative Cloud Uninstaller.

Run this program from distribution point on all the client machines where you want to uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app. The Creative Cloud desktop app can only be uninstalled if all Creative Cloud apps such as Photoshop, Illustrator, and Premiere Pro have already been uninstalled from the system. Legal Notices Online Privacy Policy. Buy now. How to uninstall and reinstall Acrobat Search. How to uninstall and reinstall Acrobat on Windows. Quit Acrobat if it's running. From the list of installed programs, select Adobe Acrobat and click Uninstall.

Click Yes in the confirmation dialog. After Acrobat is uninstalled, restart your computer. How to uninstall and reinstall Acrobat on macOS. These instructions will remove items for a specific version of Creative Suite.

However, some items are the same across different versions of Creative Suite so if you are removing an older version but have a newer version installed that you wish to keep specific items not to be removed will be noted in red.

Their locations can be found in this article. Backing Up Your Computer You should always back up your computer before deleting software. If a listed item isn't on your hard disk, don't worry, ignore it and skip to the next step.