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pd123
07-30-2008, 10:13 PM
I had a near disaster. I put a Photoshop program on months ago. All of a sudden I get "catastrophic user error" and the program no longer functions. I tried deleting it with Add/Remove, also called "Program and Features" in Vista. It would not uninstall, it is taking nearly 600megs of my drive. I got a freeware called "Revo Uninstaller". It deleted it and also corrupted the computer so it no longer booted. After a few attempts to get into "Safe Mode" I recovered the computer to prior and all is well again but the Photoshop program is back and not working. Any suggestions how to uninstall it? BTW, on a side note, Gateway support had me go into Safe Mode and choose "Repair Windows" and I followed their directions, while going into Repair Windows, I asked what they were doing, they said recovering to day one. At that moment, I aborted. Terrible support, all they can do is wipe out the drive without even warning me to backup. It was easy for me to just recover to the day before.
eSDee
07-31-2008, 08:21 AM
Try this:

http://indesignhelp.com/adobe-cs3-clean-script-windows/

I used it on my Mac a while ago (this is the Windows version) and it worked great. Even though it is made for InDesign, it gets rid of all Adobe products.
mechmike0034
07-31-2008, 07:01 PM
http://www.revouninstaller.com/

Works great!

EDIT: Can't say the same for my reading comprehension skills...

That's what I get for being in a hurry, and my apologies for blowing right by that in your post...
pd123
07-31-2008, 08:03 PM
mechmike, I had a disaster using that program and had to recover the computer using windows restore. That program failed miserably.
pd123
07-31-2008, 08:52 PM
Thank you, I ran this program twice found things both times, removed about half a gig, left only 42megs, I just deleted that. Worked greaet thank you

Try this:

http://indesignhelp.com/adobe-cs3-clean-script-windows/

I used it on my Mac a while ago (this is the Windows version) and it worked great. Even though it is made for InDesign, it gets rid of all Adobe products.
eSDee
08-01-2008, 02:44 PM
Glad it worked buddy. Mechmike, thanks for that link. I need to try it one a PC that I am working on that is full of seemingly un-removable software.