How to Uninstall ‌‌‌Adobe CC?

Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) is a subscription bundle that installs the Creative Cloud desktop app plus twenty-plus individual programs—Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, and a swarm of helper services. Each piece drops files in Program Files, AppData, Roaming, the registry, scheduled tasks, and background services. A plain “Uninstall” from Windows Settings or Control Panel therefore leaves behind gigabytes of cache, licensing tokens, and update daemons; the desktop app will even refuse to uninstall until every single CC program is gone, which is why the suite is notorious for clinging to a system.

Below is a complete, repeatable process for Windows 10/11.

1. Back up and sync
   • Open the Creative Cloud desktop app → cloud icon → verify that all files are synced.
   • Deactivate any licenses you care about (Help → Sign Out inside each major app).
2. Remove every CC application first
   • Creative Cloud desktop → Apps tab → for each installed program click … → Uninstall.
   • Wait until the list is empty; if any app refuses, use its own uninstaller or Adobe’s standalone uninstallers.
3. Uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app
   • Download the official Creative Cloud Uninstaller for Windows from Adobe .
   • Extract the ZIP, right-click Creative Cloud Uninstaller.exe → Run as administrator.
   • Click Uninstall → Close when finished.
4. Clean the leftovers manually
   • Delete these folders if they still exist:
   – C:\Program Files\Adobe
   – C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe
   – %APPDATA%\Adobe
   – %LOCALAPPDATA%\Adobe
   – %PUBLIC%\Documents\Adobe
   • In Task Scheduler (taskschd.msc) delete any tasks named AdobeGC, AdobeUpdater, or similar.
   • Press Win + R → regedit → back up the registry, then remove:
   – HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe
   – HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Adobe
   • Empty the Recycle Bin.
5. Reboot the PC
   A restart flushes locked services and DLLs.

If you’d rather skip the folder-hunt and registry edits, run PerfectUninstaller afterward—it will locate every hidden Adobe file, service, and registry key and erase them in one pass.