Disable Notification Manager for Adobe Creative Cloud

[Guest]

Hello,

Adobe Creative Cloud is terribly intrusive, we would simply like to have Acrobat and Photoshop with this. Having said that the ABSOLUTLEY WORST THING is the UWP app installation in the Start Menu called "Notification Manager for Adobe Creative Cloud", why:

(1) the title is rediculously long should be two words max!

(2) clicking it just opens Creative Cloud and there is a shorcut anyhow!

(3) if it is uninstalled then Creative Cloud just adds it back

ALL OUR USERS want the option to not see this in the start menu. This can be done by either:

(1) providing a user preference to not install the "Notification Manager for Adobe Creative Cloud" app.

(2) installing the app but within the manifest for this app go to the VisualElements element and add the attribute AppListEntry="none"

PLEASE SORT THIS NONSENSE OUT ASAP IT IS SO BAD WE ARE CONSIDERING DITCHING ADOBE CREATIVE CLOUD PRODUCTS ALL TOGETHER!

[AMPC23]

Hello,

I have the same issue when rebuilding a new version of Adobe Acrobat Pro, Im guessing it'll be the same when I rebuild the other Adobe packages.
The original script does not work for the removal of Notification Manager:
Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *AdobeNotificationClient* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

I need this uninstalled and removed from the Start Menu for all users.
If anyone knows how to remove this when the application is installed, that would be great!

Many thanks

[kglad]

@AMPC23 

posting in an ideas forum implies you are not requesting help/work-arounds. you are asking adobe to change something.

for help/work-arounds post in a discussions forum.

[Necro30527981y1is]

I'm also constantly annoyed by this. Despite constantly uninstalling it, it gets reinstalled. I have EVERY form of Photoshop / Adobe software including CC disabled on startup and yet I'm still getting notification pop-ups every time about updates. Yes, this can be partially managed in the software but what doesn't make sense is why you'd allow the user to disable on start-up but push a pop-up notification anyway and force them to ALSO change the notification setting. It's like saying "Start on start-up" isn't entirely true. If start on start-up is disabled, to me, that means every single form of the application lays dorment until I start it or use something else that I want to start it.

As well, there are countless background processes started on start-up, even if the application is disabled on start-up. I'd like the applications or any processes to ONLY operate when I decide to operate them. 

Does anyone have any solutions for securing this application and it's processes to only run when the user wants it to run?

[kglad]

@Necro30527981y1is 

you're posting in an "ideas" forum.

[karans163075]

Hello,

This is required to manage the notifications that Adobe servers send to your desktop apps. More details are here - https://helpx.adobe.com/in/x-productkb/global/adobe-background-processes.html.

Thank You

[whawn]

That doesn't make it good.  It merely proves that Adobe just loves to annoy the heck out its customers.  It is NOT a needed process. 

[kglad]

@whawn 

some (maybe most) users disagree.

[whawn]

@kglad -- Adobe and its syncophants certain do.

I think you can see, from this thread, and from several others on this site, and on Reddit, that a great many people think Adobe oversteps and has been doing so for decades, now. 

[kglad]

no argument there (from me).

[Kalvyn Rasquinha]

Hey folks. We're looking into near term options to shorten the name. Longer term, we're investigating options to reduce the app's footprint on the machine so the notification manager listing for Creative Cloud doesn't show up in the menu.

[kglad]

thanks for the update @Kalvyn Rasquinha 

[Steven30750106qdgh]

so the solution was to delete the start menu item and just run in the backgorund anyways? lmao. you guys are just horrible.