Why was Photoshop Express installed?

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 7, 2024
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Can anyone explain to me why Adobe Photoshop Express was suddenly installed on my machine? I turned the computer on one day to be met with the message it installed and this was without my prompt or permission. Is there some kind of reason for this? Does standard Photoshop need this installed? I'm slightly annoyed because I have reasons not to install more programs at the moment. Any help appreciated.

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jonda2282

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I had the same thing happen to me this evening. I'd rebooted my desktop PC, running MS Windows 10, and I saw PSExpressBroker.exe and PSExpressCore.exe running in Task Manager. File Explorer showed many adobe files created at the exact time of the PC boot! I don't use or have Adobe on my PC currently. Or I didn't. There are no Adobe entries in MS Program and Features, so no entry to uninstall, but plenty of files in Program Files, and a handful in Program Data.

So firstly, can I just delete all the adobe files that were created this evening, including a Registry entry. Secondly WHY did this occur. Obviously this is the exact problem that the OP had. Something is going on here.

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@jonda2282 you'd be better off asking on the Photoshop Express forum

Ged_Traynor

Community Expert

@j.capp not sure why that would have happened, haven't come across any reported issues like that before, Photoshop Express in not required to run Photoshop so you can just uninstall it

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j.cappAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks for the reply. Yeah, on this particular machine all my setting for updates and downloads and everything are all managed. I have no clue why that happened and am still curious to find out

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