Uninstall the Adobe Creative Suite product through Add or Remove Programs Control (Windows XP) or the Programs And Features Control Panel (Windows Vista/Windows 7), or navigate to /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers folder and double-click the Adobe Creative Suite product uninstaller (Mac OS X).This may include custom plug-ins or profiles you have installed.

Back up all files stored in Adobe product directories.

Prerequisite to Use Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool (from Adobe TechNote) Instead, its main purpose it to allow the new installation of Adobe software can proceed and complete without failure. Note that Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool may not remove all directories, registry keys, configurations, and preferences that might have been installed. Once the old install records of Adobe Creative Suite are removed, user should be able to start the installation of Adobe Creative Suite again.

It allows user to specify which products to clean up, so user can remove and delete a version of Adobe CS products independently. The Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool does not interfere with existing installations of previous versions of Adobe Creative Suite products. Despite been mainly provided as a tool to fix and resolve conflict caused by pre-release (beta or RC release candidate) of Adobe software, Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool should work on any final RTM version of Adobe software too. Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool can clean up remnants or install records for previously installed pre-release installations of Creative Suite products. The Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool resolves installation problems for Adobe Creative Suite 5, Adobe Creative Suite 4, and Adobe Creative Suite 3 software. Photoshop, Premiere Pro, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, After Effects, Contribute, etc.) due to previous or pre-release version of Adobe products can now make use of Adobe CS5 Cleaner Tool to remove traces and bits of Adobe software. Master Collection, Design Standard, Design Premium, Production Premium, Web Standard and Web Premium) or applications (e.g. Users who are having problem or encountering error when trying to uninstall pre-release or beta version of Adobe CS3, Adobe CS4 or Adobe CS5 suites (e.g.

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