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Dilly_Dally
Inspiring
January 7, 2026
Question

Prevent Creative Cloud opening when I open Adobe Illustrator

  • January 7, 2026
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I have a subscription to Adobe Illustrator.  I have disabled the creative cloud autostart up in task manager.  I have set my creative cloud preferences to not launching.  Its still starts everytime I click on my app on my desktop.  I tried to uninstall it but it won't let me because AI is installed.

How do I prevent this very irritating app from starting?

 

1 reply

kglad
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 7, 2026

go to your illustrator executable and create a shortcut.  move that shortcut to where you want it.