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General discussion

Photoshop Elements 9

Jan 11, 2011 5:50PM PST

Working with new computer and want to remove unnecesssary programs. I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 9 installed, along with Adobe Air, Inspiration Browser, and Community Help.

I think it is OK to remove Air and Community Help, but not sure if Inspiration Browser is needed to run with Photoshop Elements.
Appreciate any help...

Miki
Dell Studio XPS 8100
Windows 7 64-bit

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Adobe Air and others
Jan 11, 2011 8:20PM PST

I would be cautious about uninstalling Adobe Air. I'll be honest I don't entirely understand why we need it, (or if we do), but it is bundled with any Adobe product users install and there seems to be no way of 'not installing' it.

Wikipedia has more about it here; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Integrated_Runtime and I can see from there that this forced install has been noticed and mentioned by others. May be it is something like the Java Console. We all have it, but we're not exactly sure why!

Inspiration Browser. Getting any useful information about this is proving difficult. I think we might need WikiLeaks to intervene! But like you say it seems to be something to do with Photoshop Elements, to enable users to view video tutorials. My guess is, if you are going to use PE then perhaps he Inspiration Browser could be useful. If not, perhaps uninstall both PE and this browser.

All I can find out about Community Help is at http://www.adobe.com/support/chc/ . If it is not taking up much hdd space, may be best to leave it alone?

Adobe really annoys me. I put them on a par with Real Networks, (Real Player, etc), for forced installing unwanted apps and components and flooding the system with Startups and Update processes. I would suggest you search for an identify any and every Startup file, Service, and Processes, that Adobe has installed and disable as many as you can.

Mark

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Thank you, Mark
Jan 12, 2011 6:22AM PST

Appreciate the research you did on my behalf......thank you so much. It will help me make a more educated decision. Miki

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Re: Adobe Air
Jan 11, 2011 8:43PM PST
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My thanks, Kees
Jan 12, 2011 6:31AM PST

On my new computer, I want to uninstall programs I do not need and/or do not require in StartUp. I did not keep Adobe Air in my old XP computer where I had Flashplayer and Java, too. That said, I did not have Community and Inspirational Browser with the old PhotoShop Elements 2 -- and I want to use caution before uninstalling anything that Elements 9 might require.

Appreciate very much your reply.......miki

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Called Adobe
Jan 19, 2011 5:10AM PST

Kees --

Just to let you know....Adobe told me it was required if I was going to store photos online.....which I will not be doing.

Miki

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Not Kees, but me.
Jan 19, 2011 5:27AM PST

Hi Miki.

Is that Adobe Photoshop Elements or Adobe Air? If Adobe Air is that all they said it does?

Glad to see you are getting to grips with your Windows 7. Happy

Mark

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(NT) Mark -
Jan 19, 2011 2:38PM PST
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Adobe Air
Jan 19, 2011 2:56PM PST

Mark -- I was told by a not-too-bright Adobe person that Adobe Air was needed by Photoshop Elements if I planned to store photos online. Is this the clarification you wanted?

Miki

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Addendum
Jan 19, 2011 3:00PM PST

I am doing much better, thank you, with Windows 7. All my questions have been answered, and I have been able to obtain all the information for which I was looking. Now, I can go ahead and utilize it all Happy......miki

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Good, glad to hear it.
Jan 19, 2011 7:22PM PST

And about Adobe Air, I see no problems with uninstalling it. If you do have problems later and Adobe Air is needed for some reason, then you can just go to the Adobe web site and reinstall it.

Mark

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That's how I see it, too, Mark
Jan 20, 2011 7:35AM PST

I had Photoshop Elements 2 and Adobe Reader free in old XP machine .....and did updates to exclude Adobe Air.

Miki