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David__B
Adobe Employee
David__B
Adobe Employee
November 17, 2023
Question

Adobe Background Processes

  • November 17, 2023
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Processes Consolidation & Improvements

 

Based on user feedback and our developers' efforts, we've significantly reduced the number of Adobe background processes. Some processes would continue to operate in the background & others are now optimized to run on demand, leading to improved performance. We are continuing to work on further reducing the number of processes in the future. The number of processes listed in the linked help article has been greatly reduced from the original count.

Overview


Adobe background processes run behind the scenes and perform several important tasks that make your Adobe apps run seamlessly. You may not always notice them, but these critical background processes work even when not using any of your Adobe apps. Some of them are meant to sync your fonts or libraries to the cloud, while some install automatic updates for your apps.

Similarly, your Creative Cloud desktop app interacts with other background processes on your device. These services (such as Creative Cloud Core Service, Adobe Content Synchronizer, and Creative Cloud Libraries Synchronizer) perform tasks like app installations and updates and asset syncing.

 

  • There will be fewer entries in the Task Manager on Windows due to modifications we made to the Crash Reporter processes. Click on the button below for more information.

 

 

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    Emily287210047g5v
    Participating Frequently
    April 11, 2024

    I want them all gone. If I'm not using adobe, I want nothing running. It should and can be a simple switch. I don't want fonts etc to sync, it can do that when I start the application and I will accept the slower start up. I don't use any Adobe cloud storage, nor ever want to, so this also should not be running, even if I were to, if I don't have the application open why sync at all??? I'm switching to Affinity, started learning the program two days ago because of this issue.

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      TwistedRealm
      Known Participant
      October 13, 2025

      Adobe like to hide their respawning and start-up bloatware:
      I've provided a guide to the methods they use and how to disable/delete these parts, in the thread below.

       

      https://community.adobe.com/t5/creative-cloud-services-discussions/how-can-i-disable-background-processes-and-services/td-p/11249554

       

      The OFFICIAL "Answered" tick is nonsense - it doesn't answer the OP's question it answeres an in-line sidequest..... SO IGNORE THAT TICK and scroll down to my answer

       


      Synopsys from my post:

      I have had good success keeping them repressed in the past, but now you need to remove thier settings from "Four" locations:

       

      Start-Up items: In task Manager (or via MsConfig for old versions of windows like xp/7 etc.)

      Registry start-up keys: in three different nodes.

      Task Scheduler: to disable automatic respawning

      Services: to disable Acrobat and Adobe updaters. (WindowsKey+R and type: services.msc)

       

      But - keep in mind that after updates Adobe will most likely reinstall and reset some of these, such as the Task Scheduler - so you may have re-do this occasionally.

       

       

      kglad
      Community Expert
      kgladCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      November 18, 2023

      thank you!  that was unexpected (by me) and hopefully very helpful for users having problems (also, not me).

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