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Should I remove Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition?

What percent of users and experts removed it?
11% remove it89% keep it
Overall Sentiment
Very good
What do people think about it?
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How common is it?
Global Rank #7,355
United States Rank #4,789
Reach 0.0573%
Lifespan of installation (until removal)
< 10.63 days
313.60 days >
Average installed length: 164.77 days

Versions

VersionDistribution
3.2.0 100.00%

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Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2

What is Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition?

Adobe Photoshop Album is a software application by Adobe Systems designed to import, organize and edit digital photos, and allows quick and easy searching and sharing of entire photo collections. Photoshop Album Starter Edition includes features like red-eye correction, brightness adjustment, calendar view and image tagging. The Starter Edition allows using the program for a certain number of times until it prompts for registration for continued usage.

About  (from Adobe Systems)

Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3 helps you to find, fix, and easily share your photos using a compatible PC. With this version of Starter Edition you can: Use tags to organize your photos so that they are easy to find. Use a calendar view to see all of your digital photos in one place. Easily fix common photo fl...  Read more

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 PhotoshopAlbum.exe. The software installer includes 80 files and is usually about 15.45 MB (16,198,989 bytes). AdobeUpdater.dll is the automatic update component of the software designed to download and apply new updates should new versions be released.

Program detailsProgram details

URL: www.adobe.com
Installation folder: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Album Starter Edition\
Uninstaller: MsiExec.exe /I{A654A805-41D9-40C7-AA46-4AF04F044D61}
(The Windows Installer is used for the installation, maintenance, and removal.)
Estimated size: 15.45 MB

Program filesFiles installed by Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2

Program executable:PhotoshopAlbum.exe
Name:Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition
Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition
Path:C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Album Starter Edition\2.0\Apps\PhotoshopAlbum.exe
MD5:389c37041e8649849ad210e74676b2ad
Additional files:
  • AdobeQt.dll - Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition (Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 component)
  • AocCache.dll
  • apdboot.dll
  • apdproxy.exe
  • ComponentLauncher.exe - Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2 (Viewer)
  • creation.dll
  • Discwriter.dll
  • Edit.dll
  • email.dll
  • ImageLibrary.dll
  • jpegviewer.dll
  • ols.dll
  • pdf2img.dll
  • pdfcreation.dll
  • pdfdm.dll - Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.0 component
  • PhotoDownloader.dll
  • Photoshop Album Starter Edition.exe - Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2
  • PhotoshopAlbum.exe - Adobe Photoshop Album 2.0 Starter Edition
  • prefrences.dll
  • Print.dll
  • PsaProxy.exe
  • PtPlatform.dll
  • PtPlatformMsg.dll
  • Review.dll
  • SESDK.dll
  • SEUtils.dll
  • ThumbnailCache.dll
  • uploader.dll
  • AUM21.dll - AUM Dynamic Link Library (Adobe Update Manager Library)
  • AdobeOLS.dll - Adobe Online Services (Adobe Online Services Library)
  • AdobeUpdater.dll - Adobe Updater Library
  • AdobeUpdateManager.exe - Adobe Update Manager
  • OperaMgr.dll - Adobe Opera Manager (Adobe Opera Manager Library)
  • Plugin.dll - Adobe Photoshop (Photoshop Plugin Utilities)

Program behaviorsBehaviors exhibited

Autoplay Handler
  • PsaProxy.exe is registered as an AutoPlay event handler named 'PSASE30ImportPicturesOnArrival' with the ProgID of 'PSASE30.autoplay' and the action verb 'launch.
Scheduled Task
  • Photoshop Album Starter Edition.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{1844D156-419F-46A1-8784-112882AD951D}' (runs on registration).
Startup File (User Run)
  • apdproxy.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Adobe Photo Downloader' and executes as C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Album Starter Edition\3.0\Apps\apdproxy.exe.
Startup File (All Users Run)
  • apdproxy.exe is loaded in the all users (HKLM) registry as a startup file name 'Adobe Photo Downloader' which loads as "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Album Starter Edition\3.0\Apps\apdproxy.exe".
2 Windows Firewall Allowed Programs
  • Photoshop Album Starter Edition.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Album Starter Edition\3.2\Apps\Photoshop Album Starter Edition.exe'.
  • PhotoshopAlbum.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Photoshop Album Starter Edition\2.0\Apps\PhotoshopAlbum.exe'.

How do I remove Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition?

You can uninstall Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 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® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition 3.2, 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 Photoshop Album Starter Edition.

OS VERSIONS
Win XP 33%
Win 7 0%
 
HOW IT STARTS
Automatically starts? Yes
(Found in the run registry)
 
USER ACTIONS
Uninstall it 11%
Keep it 89%

Windows OS versionsWindows

Which Windows OS versions does it run on?
Windows XP 34.39%
Windows Vista 31.48%
Windows 7 27.14%
Windows 10 6.90%
Windows Server 2003 0.09%
Which OS releases does it run on?
Microsoft Windows XP 34.41%
Windows Vista Home Premiu... 25.14%
Windows 7 Home Premium 16.13%
Windows 7 Ultimate 5.68%
Windows 7 Professional 4.41%
Windows Vista Home Basic 3.96%

Distribution by countryGeography

71.40% of installs come from the United States
Which countries install it?
  United States 71.40%
  United Kingdom 5.44%
  Canada 3.63%
  Australia 2.19%
  Israel 1.13%
  Germany 1.00%
  Iran 0.75%
  Netherlands 0.75%
  Belgium 0.69%
  India 0.63%
  Croatia 0.63%
  Sweden 0.56%
  New Zealand 0.56%
  Poland 0.56%

OEM distributionPC manufacturers

What PC manufacturers (OEMs) have it installed?
Dell 37.25%
Hewlett-Packard 23.36%
Acer 7.74%
American Megatrends 5.87%
Intel 5.61%
Toshiba 5.07%
GIGABYTE 4.94%
Gateway 3.34%
Sahara 3.20%
ASUS 2.80%
Lenovo 0.80%
Common models
Dell Dell DXP061 6.21%
TOSHIBA Satellite A135 4.52%
Dell Inspiron 530 3.67%
Dell Inspiron 531 3.67%
Dell Dimension E521 3.11%
Dell Dell DM061 3.11%

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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