Skip to main content
Participant
April 18, 2007
Question

Uninstalling Bonjour service from Photoshop CS3?

  • April 18, 2007
  • 108 replies
  • 116745 views
Is there no proper way to uninstall the Bonjour service that is automatically installed with PS CS3? It is of little use to the average Windows user and the service is also messed up by being named "##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##" rather than "Bonjour Service".

It's certainly possible to manually remove the references to the service in the registry and hope for the best, but that's not good enough for a top dollar application.
    This topic has been closed for replies.

    108 replies

    Participating Frequently
    August 4, 2007
    XD
    August 4, 2007
    >Surely it's better to turn off a light bulb by unscrewing it rather than using the wall switch?

    personally, i use rocks. first i remove the light cover. then i step back about ten paces and pick up the pile of good sized rocks i've collected just for the purpose of turning off the lights. then i start chucking rocks at the bare bulb. sure there are some holes in the ceiling. and i broke the picture of my mother in law on the wall with a bad ricochet, but darn it, i get that light off, almost every time! :)
    Participating Frequently
    August 4, 2007
    Why do it simply when there are more difficult ways to do it, Dave?

    Surely it's better to turn off a light bulb by unscrewing it rather than using the wall switch?
    August 3, 2007
    next time don't go messing with your registry. just read post #1! (I know, nobody reads post #1)
    Participant
    August 3, 2007
    thank you adobe, I didnt know about Bonjour, I didnt even know it got installed with Flash CS3, tried to kill it erasing all entries in the registry and it KILLED my internet connection

    reinstalling windows didnt work, I had to format
    THANK YOU
    July 15, 2007
    ;)
    July 13, 2007
    Psst! deebs! you can turn off your autoquote!
    Participant
    July 15, 2007
    Will do John.

    I try to do so manually but on occasions forget.
    Participant
    July 11, 2007
    deebs,

    From my experience if you dont use iTunes or the rest of the CS suite you can disable it, I did. It is a service and as such will use some resources and there is no problem unless you try to uninstall it then it can get complicated. But unless you are desperate for hard disk space, just disable it and everything is back to normal.

    Just my 2 cents...

    Tony
    Participant
    July 13, 2007
    Appreciated Tony - thank you for the details.

    Tony_Patterson@adobeforums.com wrote:
    > deebs,
    >
    > From my experience if you dont use iTunes or the rest of the CS suite you can disable it, I did. It is a service and as such will use some resources and there is no problem unless you try to uninstall it then it can get complicated. But unless you are desperate for hard disk space, just disable it and everything is back to normal.
    >
    > Just my 2 cents...
    >
    > Tony
    July 11, 2007
    One gets the impression that they mean well but don't think things through.

    In my book, that's incompetence and unforgivable in a market leading application.

    CS3 seems to be littered with these bloopers.
    Participant
    July 11, 2007
    Alternatively (on XP Pro):

    Click Start > Right click on My Computer > Manage > Services and
    Applications > Services > Extended tab and #Id is probably at the top of
    the list.

    Is it worthwhile in general disabling #Id?



    John_Joslin@adobeforums.com wrote:
    > One gets the impression that they mean well but don't think things through.
    >
    > In my book, that's incompetence and unforgivable in a market leading application.
    >
    > CS3 seems to be littered with these bloopers.
    Participant
    July 11, 2007
    Many thanks.
    The bonjour service broke my Vista internet connection.
    After removing the Bonjour service, everthing works normally.

    After I installed Dreamweaver CS3, I had no internet connection after rebooting Windows Vista.

    Windows would start up and show both my network and an "unknown network" in the Network & Sharing Center. This may have happened since my son has a mac attached to the network. Because of the "unknown network", Vista locked out my connection to the internet through my router.

    The work around was to disable & then enable my network connection. I had to do this everytime I rebooted. Very annoying.

    Adobe should remove Bonjour from Dreamweaver. There is almost nothing worse than installing the best web site development tool and finding that your internet connection is broken. It had me worried that there was a fundamental bug in Dreamweaver.