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Should I remove Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
6% remove it94% keep it
Overall Sentiment
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How common is it?
Global Rank #13,676
United States Rank #10,394
Reach 0.0219%

Versions

VersionDistribution
6 100.00%

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Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium

What is Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium?

Adobe Creative Suite (CS6) is a collection of graphic design, video editing, and web development applications made by Adobe Systems. The collection consists of Adobe's applications (Photoshop, Acrobat, InDesign), that are based on various technologies (PostScript, PDF, Flash). Adobe sells Creative Suite applications in five different combinations called "editions", the Adobe Creative Suite Master Collection contains applications from all of the above editions.

Overview

Upon installation and setup, it defines an auto-start registry entry which makes this program run on each Windows boot for all user logins. A scheduled task is added to Windows Task Scheduler in order to launch the program at various scheduled times (the schedule varies depending on the version). The software is designed to connect to the Internet and adds a Windows Firewall exception in order to do so without being interfered with. The main program executable is Adobe DNG Converter.exe. The software installer includes 27 files and is usually about 8 MB (8,389,015 bytes).

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.adobe.com/go/support
Help link: www.adobe.com/go/support_jp
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe
Uninstaller: C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\OOBE\PDApp\core\PDApp.exe --appletID="DWA_UI" --appletVersion="2.0" --mode="Uninstall" --mediaSignature="{045D4EDF
Estimated size: 8 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium

Program executable:Adobe DNG Converter.exe
Path:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe DNG Converter.exe
MD5:f9ba83e5e9bee9235461bc0d05ed27a0
Additional files:
  • PMReaderApp.exe - Adobe India PageMaker Import via Sangam 2012/02/07-10:51:05 (PageMaker Import from Sangam)
  • AcroBroker.exe - Adobe PDF Broker Process for Internet Explorer
  • AcroTextExtractor.exe - Adobe Acrobat text extractor for non-PDF files (AcroTextExtractor)
  • ExtendScript Toolkit.exe - ESTK CS6 2012/03/13-23:11:26 (ExtendScript Toolkit CS6 and Debugger (32 bit))
  • LogTransport2.exe - LogTransport Application
  • wow_helper.exe - Adobe Reader WOW Helper
  • Adobe QT32 Server.exe - Adobe Media Core CS6
  • GPUSniffer.exe
  • ImporterREDServer.exe
  • PhotoshopServer.exe
  • Droplet Template.exe - Adobe Photoshop CS6 (Adobe Photoshop Droplet)
  • Photoshop.exe
  • InDesign.exe - Adobe InDesign CS6
  • Adobe Prelude.exe - Adobe Prelude CS6
  • reader_sl.exe - Adobe Acrobat (Adobe Acrobat SpeedLauncher)
  • AcroRd32.exe - Adobe Reader
  • AcroRd32Info.exe
  • airappinstaller.exe - Adobe AIR (Adobe AIR Application Installer)
  • arh.exe - Adobe AIR Redistribution Helper
  • Eula.exe - EULA (Eula display)
  • AdobeCollabSync.exe - Adobe Collaboration Synchronizer 10.1
  • CustomHooks.dll

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

2 Scheduled Tasks
  • AcroRd32.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{1C85A33F-8BB5-46A8-9A6C-C58BA3792D3E}' (runs on registration).
  • reader_sl.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Reader Speed Launcher'.
Scheduled Task (Boot/Login)
  • reader_sl.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Adobe Reader Speed Launcher.
Startup File (User Run)
  • AdobeCollabSync.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Adobe Acrobat Synchronizer' and executes as "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 10.0\Acrobat\AdobeCollabSync.exe".
2 Startup Files (All Users Run)
  • AdobeCollabSync.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'Adobe Reader Synchronizer' which loads as "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AdobeCollabSync.exe".
  • reader_sl.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'Adobe Reader Speed Launcher' which loads as "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\Reader_sl.exe".
Windows Firewall Allowed Program
  • AcroRd32.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe'.

Program resource utilizationResource utilization averages

InDesign.exe
Memory:366.48 MB
21.09 MB average
Total CPU:0.0000199835%
0.031193% average
Kernel CPU:0.00000556%
0.016088% average
User CPU:0.00001442%
0.015104% average
CPU cycles/sec:86,219,074
8,062,084 average
Switches/sec:692
70 average
I/O reads/min:106.09 KB
435.61 KB average
I/O writes/min:2.35 KB
105.02 KB average
AcroRd32.exe
Memory:52.22 MB
Total CPU:0.0008742131%
Kernel CPU:0.00055020%
User CPU:0.00032401%
CPU cycles/sec:7,193,356
Switches/sec:15
I/O reads/min:60.33 KB
I/O writes/min:180 Bytes

How do I remove Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium?

You can uninstall Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium from your computer by using the Add/Remove Program feature in the Window's Control Panel.
  1. On the Start menu (for Windows 8, right-click the screen's bottom-left corner), click Control Panel, and then, under Programs, do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall a Program.
    • Windows XP: Click Add or Remove Programs.
  2. When you find the program Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium, click it, and then do one of the following:
    • Windows Vista/7/8/10: Click Uninstall.
    • Windows XP: Click the Remove or Change/Remove tab (to the right of the program).
  3. Follow the prompts. A progress bar shows you how long it will take to remove Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium.

OS VERSIONS
Win 7 (SP1) 62%
Win Vista (SP2) 1%
 
HOW IT STARTS
Automatically starts? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 6%
Keep it 94%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows 7 62.88%
Windows 10 35.03%
Windows XP 1.39%
Windows Vista 0.70%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Windows 7 Professional 23.72%
Windows 7 Home Premium 22.09%
Windows 7 Ultimate 13.72%
Windows 8.1 Pro 7.21%
Windows 8.1 6.51%
Windows 10 Pro 5.12%

Distribution by countryGeography

61.37% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 61.37%
  Germany 5.23%
  United Kingdom 3.43%
  Canada 3.25%
  France 2.89%
  Australia 2.53%
  Japan 2.17%
  Italy 1.99%
  Spain 1.26%
  Mexico 1.08%
  Israel 1.08%
  Sweden 0.72%
  India 0.72%
  New Zealand 0.72%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Dell 30.42%
Hewlett-Packard 21.25%
ASUS 13.33%
GIGABYTE 10.83%
Acer 6.67%
Intel 3.75%
Lenovo 3.33%
Toshiba 3.33%
Alienware 2.50%
MSI 2.08%
Medion 0.83%
Sahara 0.83%
Common models
ASUS All Series 7.83%
Dell XPS 8700 4.22%
HP Z800 Workstation 3.61%
Dell Precision WorkStatio... 3.01%
ASUSTeK G75VW 2.41%
Dell XPS 8500 2.41%

About Adobe Systems

Adobe Systems Incorporated is computer program company focused on the creation of multimedia & creativity program products, with a more-recent foray towards rich Net application program development.
Publisher URL: www.adobe.com

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