How do I Uninstall Photoshop?
Adobe Photoshop CS5 provides a powerful creative tool for tasks such as retouching and color-correcting photos, crafting digital composites, augmenting artwork you create in other programs and previsualizing website designs. Adobe product activation is a mandatory piracy-protection procedure built into the installation process. If you decide to uninstall your Adobe software in order to reinstall it on a new computer, make sure you follow the right sequence of steps to deactivate Photoshop and uninstall it completely. Otherwise, you may get an error message when you install and activate Photoshop on your new system.
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Instructions
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Windows
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Shut down all applications that are running on your PC. This includes other Adobe applications as well as your web browser, email software and productivity programs.
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Click the "Start" button on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen. Choose the "Windows Control Panel" from the pop-up menu.
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Double-click on "Add or Remove Programs" on Windows XP or "Programs and Features" on Windows Vista and Windows 7. Follow the onscreen instructions to uninstall Photoshop.
Macintosh
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Shut down all applications running on your Mac. This includes other Adobe applications as well as your web browser, Mail and Preview.
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Open your "Applications" folder and locate the "Utilities" folder. Double-click on the "Utilities" folder and do the same on the "Adobe Installers" folder. Double-click on the Adobe Photoshop installer inside the "Adobe Installers" folder. If you prefer, you can locate the "Uninstall" alias in the "Applications" folder and double-click on it.
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Choose "Remove Preferences." Type in your administrator password when you are asked for it and follow the uninstallation instructions on your screen.
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Tips & Warnings
You can deactivate your software from inside the Photoshop application itself. Choose "Deactivate" from the "Help" menu. Make sure you have an active connection to the Internet or the deactivation process will fail.
If you're accustomed to dragging Macintosh applications to the Trash in order to delete them, forget about doing that with Photoshop CS5. Use the uninstaller capabilities built into the program installer so you won't have to worry about an incomplete uninstallation procedure.
