Shortcuts after installing CC

Report · Jan 14, 2014

Hello,

I have created a package with the Creative Cloud Packager. So far so good.

When I install this packages (silent or manual), all goes well. After the installaties I find all the CC icons under "start>programs". Normally this doesn't bother me that much, but CC is a big bunch of applications and it creates 26 shortcuts directly under "start>programs" which is very annoying.

Is there any way to change the default location to (for example) "start>programs>adobe cc". I have tried editing the msi using Orca or Wise but no luck so far.

Thanks in advance.

Dries

Report · Jan 15, 2014

Hi Dries,

I am sorry but as of now we don't have any feature to change the Application location from Program menu.

Regards,

Abhijit

Report · Jan 16, 2014

Thank you Abhijit for your reply.

It would be nice to take this one in consideration for one of the next releases of the Creative Cloud Packager. We are talking about a Packager for a corporate environment. I guess our company will not be the only one who would like the adjust the location of the shortcuts to their own choosing. I double checked and this was also the case for the CS6 packager tool, but CS6 shortcuts were placed under a "Adobe CS6 ... " folder in the start menu. Having 26 shortcuts on a location that you are unable to modify is a bit unfortunate.

Thank you,

Dries

Report · Jan 29, 2014

I agree with Raihne. Custom scripting might solve the issue when installing, but it's gonna be a mess if you're uninstall anything or make changes..

My experiences with Adobe CC in an enterprise environment has not been pleasant whatsoever so far...

Report · Feb 04, 2015

Has anybody found a solution for this? We just started talking about this and how cluttered it's making the start menu. The only thing we found we can do is take all the shortcuts, put them in our own folder in the start menu before creating a default profile. But, if the package deployment did it for us, it would be much better. I'm pretty sure CS6 deployment put most of them in a CS6 folder if I remember correctly. Not sure what happened with CC.

Thank You

Report · Feb 19, 2015

I'm afraid there is still no alternative

Report · Feb 19, 2015

Try the script below, Adobe does not provide the functionality to modify it during the install for some reason:

Just to note, for deployment I zip the files using 7ZIP, copy them down to the machine and unzip using the script below with a 7za.exe file in the folder.

On Error Resume Next

'----------------------------------------------
'Function: Install Adobe Creative Cloud
'----------------------------------------------
'Error Codes:
'1001 - Extract Failed
'1002 - Exceptions Pre Install Failed
'1003 - Installations Failed
'1004 - Exceptions Post Install Failed
'0 - All installations completed successfully
'-----------------------------------------------

Dim objFSO, wshShell

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" )

strInstallFolder = objFSO.GetParentFolderName(Wscript.ScriptFullName)

strSuccess = 0
strExtract = strInstallFolder & "\7za.exe x " & strInstallFolder & "\AdobeCC_GACLabs.7z.001 -o"& strInstallFolder & "\AdobeCC"
strInstall = "msiexec /i " & strInstallFolder & "\GACLABS\Build\GACLABS.msi /qb"
strExceptionsPre = strInstallFolder & "\GACLABS\Exceptions\ExceptionDeployer.exe --workflow=install --mode=pre"
strExceptionsPost = strInstallFolder & "\GACLABS\Exceptions\ExceptionDeployer.exe --workflow=install --mode=post"

strStartMenu = "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\"
strDesktop = "C:\Users\Public\Desktop\"
strAdobeCCFolder = "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Adobe Creative Cloud\"

Dim strShortcut(28)
strShortcut(0) = "Adobe After Effects CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(1) = "Adobe Audition CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(2) = "Adobe Bridge CC (64bit).lnk"
strShortcut(3) = "Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2014.1.lnk"
strShortcut(4) = "Adobe Edge Animate CC 2014.1.lnk"
strShortcut(5) = "Adobe Edge Code CC Preview.lnk"
strShortcut(6) = "Adobe Edge Reflow CC.lnk"
strShortcut(7) = "Adobe Extension Manager CC.lnk"
strShortcut(8) = "Adobe Extension Manager CS6.lnk"
strShortcut(9) = "Adobe Fireworks CS6.lnk"
strShortcut(10) = "Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(11) = "Adobe Help.lnk"
strShortcut(12) = "Adobe Illustrator CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(13) = "Adobe InCopy CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(14) = "Adobe InDesign CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(15) = "Adobe Media Encoder CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(16) = "Adobe Muse CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(17) = "Adobe Photoshop CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(18) = "Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7.1 64-bit.lnk"
strShortcut(19) = "Adobe Prelude CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(20) = "Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(21) = "Adobe Scout CC.lnk"
strShortcut(22) = "Adobe SpeedGrade CC 2014.lnk"
strShortcut(23) = "Adobe Bridge CC (64bit).lnk"
strShortcut(24) = "Adobe Scout CC.lnk"
strShortcut(25) = "Adobe Acrobat Distiller XI.lnk"
strShortcut(26) = "Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.lnk"
strShortcut(27) = "Adobe FormsCentral.lnk"

Dim strFolder(3)
strFolder(0) = "Adobe Gaming SDK 1.4"
strFolder(1) = "Adobe Flash Builder 4.7"
strFolder(2) = "Adobe"

Dim strDesktopShortcut(4)
strDesktopShortcut(0) = "Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.lnk"
strDesktopShortcut(1) = "Adobe FormsCentral.lnk"
strDesktopShortcut(2) = "Adobe Scout CC.lnk"
strDesktopShortcut(3) = "Lightroom 5.7.1 64-bit.lnk"

ReturnValueExtract = wshShell.run (strExtract,0,True)

If NOT ReturnValueExtract = 0 Then
strExtractFail = 1001
Wscript.Quit strExtractFail
End If

' Installing Pre Installation Exceptions
'-----------------------------------------
ReturnValueExceptionPre = wshShell.run (strExceptionsPre,0,True)

If NOT ReturnValueExceptionPre = 0 Then
strExtractFail = 1002
Wscript.Quit strExtractFail
End If

' Installing Adobe Creative Cloud
'-----------------------------------------
ReturnValueInstall = wshShell.run (strInstall,0,True)

If NOT ReturnValueInstall = 0 Then
strExtractFail = 1003
Wscript.Quit strExtractFail
End If

' Installing Post Installation Exceptions
'-----------------------------------------
ReturnValueExceptionPost = wshShell.run (strExceptionsPost,0,True)

If NOT ReturnValueExceptionPost = 0 Then
strExtractFail = 1004
Wscript.Quit strExtractFail
End If

If NOT objFSO.FolderExists(strAdobeCCFolder) Then
objFSO.CreateFolder(strAdobeCCFolder)
End If

For Each x in strShortcut
If x = "" Then
Else
If objFSO.FileExists(strStartMenu & x) Then
objFSO.MoveFile strStartMenu & x, strAdobeCCFolder
End If
End If
Next

For Each y in strFolder
If y = "" Then
Else
If objFSO.FolderExists(strStartMenu & y) Then
objFSO.MoveFolder strStartMenu & y, strAdobeCCFolder
End If
End If
Next

For Each z in strDesktopShortcut
If z = "" Then
Else
If objFSO.FileExists(strDesktop & z) Then
objFSO.DeleteFile strDesktop & z
End If
'Wscript.Echo z
End If
Next

Wscript.Quit strSuccess