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submitted 9 months ago by beefbot to c/techsupport@lemmy.world

I had already uninstalled Creative Cloud but its zombie folder was still there. (Win11/64bit/most recent updates.) Looked for hours, tried tons, nothing would work. Maybe for you Adobe's unPinCCF tool would work, or using regedit to set System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree to 0 would - but not for me.

TLDR (thanks, Aubrey and Bortao) Delete the following registry key (after making a backup of your registry ofc):

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\0E270DAA-1BE6-48F2-AC49-5CE0DBECC398

Bortao reports- "The last part of the number is random, so open Regedit and browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace, find a key starting with 0E270DAA-1BE6-48F2-AC49 and remove it." Me, I found it by Ctrl-F and looking for "creative cloud files" until I landed on that one. Deleted it, rebooted, GONE.

Aubrey's help: https://superuser.com/questions/1758115/adobe-creative-cloud-removal-and-regedit

Bortao's comment in this link: https://superuser.com/questions/1642874/how-to-remove-creative-cloud-files-shortcut-from-windows-explorer-left-navigati/1652595#1652595

This is NOT the only thing that worked for other people, so I should post my notes from this long trek, maybe one of the simpler paths might work for others

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[-] 4am@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Adobes solution probably only works if CC is still installed and running. Those reg keys certainly aren’t tied to Windows and a flag that says “unPinCCF” is probably just a flag to the process that sets it up and removes it.

Removing it should be part of the uninstall, but leave it to a megacorp to leave a little “don’t you miss us? See how cool it would be if this folder worked? So convenient!” dark pattern in there just to try and entice you back…

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