Uninstall CS After Installing CS2

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fwshaw
Jun 5, 2005
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I’ve tried to uninstall CS after installing CS2. The Control Panel (Win XP) Add/Remove programs lists both CS and CS2 but nothing happens when the "remove" button is clicked under CS. Any suggestions? I don’t see an "uninstall.exe" in the CS directory.

Thanks,
Frank
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Ron_Farr
Jun 6, 2005
I have uninstalled CS after installing CS2. I went to the Control Panel (Win XP) and then to Add/Remove programs and hit the remove button and it uninstalled successfully. Then I did a registry clean and restart my computer only to find photoshop CS2 no longer had my license number and username. I then had to reinstall CS and then CS2 to get everything back to working.
Talking with Adobe tech support. I was told that you needed CS inorder to run photoshop CS2. Hope this is of some help to you.

Ron
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chrisjbirchall
Jun 6, 2005
I was told that you needed CS inorder to run photoshop CS2

No. You need CS in order to install the CS2 upgrade.

If you were "starting from scratch", for instance, you don’t need to install CS first. Just insert the CS2 install CD and during the install process it will ask you to pop in the CS CD to verify your elegibility to upgrade.

Personally I never remove the previous version. It takes up hardly any space and it is handy to refer back to occasionally whilst getting to know the new software.

Chris.
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ID._Awe
Jun 6, 2005
Re: ‘It takes up hardly any space’: Yeah, but what if you only gots a big, whoppin’ 20 gigger. (THH)
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Dana_Gartenlaub
Jun 7, 2005
I successfully uninstalled CS after installing CS2. I used Add/Remove Programs, told it to leave any shared files alone, then deleted the remaining directories.

NOTE: I keep all third-party plugins in a seperate directory, not the one under Photoshop, and have all Actions stored on a seperate place.

All that happened is that some of the file associations in Bridge got wierd (opening jpegs in Illustrator 10?) so I had to go into the Brudge controls to re-set them. Other than that, no harm, no foul!
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LenHewitt
Jun 7, 2005
Ron,

Talking with Adobe tech support. I was told that you needed CS inorder to
run photoshop CS2.<<

Have you got the name of the rep you talked to?

That is totally incorrect information, and if Customer Support are saying that to people they need to be put straight.
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Ron_Farr
Jun 7, 2005
Len,
Sorry, I don’t have the tech’s name that told me that I needed CS inorder to run CS2. I thought it was kind of funny, that one could not uninstall CS. Your method sounds like the right way to go. I tried that way, but then I did a registry clean, and that might have done something to cause CS2 not to work.

Ron
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John Joslin
Jun 7, 2005
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