INSTALLED WITHOUT PERMISSION

​@Dazzling_ninjab0bb 

See this thread in the Photoshop Express forum. PSE is separate from Ps where you posted.

https://community.adobe.com/questions-719/installed-without-permission-1224453?postid=7692083#post7692083

It was part of a Windows update. Rose explains how to stop it from running.

EDIT: Your post with replies was merged with the Primary thread in the Express forum.

Jane

See this Adobe help article :
https://helpx.adobe.com/business/enterprise/products-entitlements/manage-entitlements/adobe-express-photos-existing-users-admin-guide.html

Dave

Adobe Express Photos installed itself on my computer without my permission. LIKE A VIRUS.

It then changed file associations without my permission. LIKE A VIRUS.

It does not allow complete removal by using windows regular normal processes (it requires registry editing). LIKE A VIRUS.

Removing it does not prevent reinfection (requires registry editing). LIKE A VIRUS.

This VIRUS like behavior is completely unacceptable. Do you realize what this does to Adobe CREDIBILITY? This kind of approach is what made me report Mc Afee self installer as a virus to Bitdefender. Fix this at once or face the consequences!

Programs should always install as an explicit OPT-IN not self install and offer OPT-OUT!

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I uninstalled it by running Remove-AppxPackage -Package "AdobeSystemsIncorporated.AdobePhotoshopExpress_6.7.6.0_x64__mtcwf2zmmt10c" in Powershell (with Administrator privileges). Also found it super annoying that this unwanted app was added!

+1 why on earth Adobe choose to do this? and it’s not first time. I’m paying for your software. I do not want to pay for the useless resource consuming security hole in my system. And honestly I do not want to bother to run virtual machines just for Adobe to isolate all this. we have enough hassle with everything else. I want photo editing software, why you push to be all this junk I do not ordered, nor chose to install? I was looking at opensource alternatives, and told to myself I will still stick with Adobe. but this is last reason, now I will work seriously to switch. bye bye (once subscription expire)

I mean I understand. Adobe Photo Express is an absolutely garbage application that no one wants, so the only way to get people to install it is if you sneak it in like a virus that takes over the superior applications that were already chosen by users. But come on, can someone sue Adobe for these anti-consumer tactics already? This is nonsense. Why do big corporations always resort to deceptive scamming practices to gain market share instead of building actually good products that people want? 

Already switched to Affinity and other capable FOSS for design applications.
I have kept Reader around for the occasional use-case, but seriously, its like you guys are trying to drive users away.
 

It is my computer.Dont install  [cursing removed]  I dont ask to install, pretty simple.

Linux Mint is a great daily driver (using W10 still for school)

FOSS apps will continue eating your lunch slowly since you are not a moving target. You add no value-add features, just explore creative (read terrible) SAAS billing methods. Acrobat Pro is a CHORE to use. There are THREE different comment methods each buried in a different location you have to menu dive through to get to. Like.  ??? Hello?

Good bye.

If anyone in this thread is wondering why anyone  [illegal activity removed] would run linux, now you might understand a little. 

Installing the software without asking me is one thing, but re-mapping my print key one day is confusing, bad user experience, and frankly out of line. 

This comment was put in and then you mentioned passing on the sentiment to the team about 2 months ago and this just happened to me. The software downloading itself is one thing, but the fact that it decided to remap a key on my keyboard to itself is extremely disappointing.  

If this app thinks it can remap keys on my computer and then ask me if I want to revert back (not the other way around) I am uninstalling it and never trying it.