Is there no proper way to uninstall the Bonjour service that is automatically installed with PS CS3? It is of little use for the average Windows user and the service is also messed up by being named "##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##" rather than "Bonjour Service".
It’s certainly possible to manually remove the references to the service in the registry and hope for the best, but that’s certainly not good enough for a top dollar application.
you could go into services (start> settings> control panel> administrative tools> services) and set the service to "Disabled" (right click it and select properties, you’ll see a dropdown).
Be careful though as it may be used by other programs. Most notably that i can think of is iTunes.
this is what I compiled for myself; it worked and left me with a working Internet connection:
1) sc stop "Bonjour Service" sc delete "Bonjour Service" 2) regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\bonjour\explorerplugin.dll" regsvr32 /u "c:\program files\bonjour\mdnsnsp.dll" 3) ren "c:\program files\bonjour" xxx (is locked) 4) del %systemroot%\system32\dns-sd.exe del %systemroot%\system32\dnssd.dll 5) Under HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\N ameSpace_Catalog5\Catalog_Entries delete the key pointing to mdnsnsp.dll (e.g. 000000000007). Set HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\Parameters\N ameSpace_Catalog5\Num_Catalog_Entries to the new last catalog entry key number (e.g. 6). 6) Search the Registry for explorerplugin.dll, mdnsnsp.dll, mdnsresponder.exe, and program files\bonjour; delete all references. 7) Reboot 8) Delete "c:\program files\xxx".
Yakumo Β 06:43 AM on April 25, 2007 because of the "$$Id_String1.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762$$" service id I’d been annoyed by bonjour after itunes installed it, and it’s how i stumbled into here.
solution I used was simply to download bonjour for windows from < http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bonjourforwindows.htm l> install it, then immediately use the uninstaller it handilly puts in ‘add/remove programs’. this works cleanly, and on vista too.
I just tried installing / uninstalling Bonjour and restarting my system. mDNSResponder has not been killed. On the contrary, its mem usage has bloated to 3.5 megs instead of the 450kb it was using before…
After uninstalling! Bonjour, there was still a folder at program files/Bonjour with mDNSResponder.EXE and a .dll file.
I went into services and killed Bonjour (which was happily chucking along after 2 uninstalls), deleted mDNSResponder.exe. The .dll file could not be deleted, so I followed the advice given in the link I provided, and renamed the.dll file and rebooted. Now it could be deleted.
However, checking Services, Bonjour is STILL LISTED, albeit disabled.
Open a Windows command prompt and type the following command: "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe -remove" Navigate to the following folder in Windows Explorer: C:\Program Files\Bonjour Rename the mdnsNSP.dll file in that folder to mdnsNSP.old Restart your computer Delete the the Program Files\Bonjour folder
However, the first command line that they give did not work for me, I had to use " C:\Progra~1\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe -remove "
It sounds to me like you didn’t include the quotes, which would be required due to the blank space between "Program" and "Files". But, if you did include the quotes and ran the command from the Command Prompt window, only to see it fail, then it may be that only works from the Start > Run dialog. I used the command earlier today from the Run window, with quotes, and it worked fine.
Hi Dave, Yes, I disabled it by disabling the service. I did it because I lost network connectivity when it was running so if anyone complains about losing their network, they should first disable or uninstall Bonjour (I guess they wouldn’t be able to, though, since they don’t have a network – Capt. Yossarian, where are you?)
I used this freeware application. Umlocked the mDNSResponder.exe and the ".dll" and then deleted the Bonjour dir in program files. I then disabled it in the startup in services. Worked well.
1. Go to <http://cexx.org/lspfix.htm> and download lspfix.zip. 2. Unzip to a desktop folder. 3. Open task manager and terminate mDNSResponder.exe. 4. Open a DOS window and go to c:\program files\bonjour 5. Run "mdnsremove -remove". This’ll uninstall the exe and remove the service from the reg. 6. Rename mdnsnsp.dll to anything else. 7. Reboot. 8. Run lspfix and use it to fix the broken winsock dll. 9. Delete c:\program files\bonjour folder. 9. Open a DOS window and run "netsh winsock reset". 10. Reboot. 11. ??? 12. Profit
#1 I don’t trust any app that installs without my permission. #2 I don’t trust any app that messes with my winsock. #3 The fact that there is no uninstall option is a big red flag. #4 Even if you choose NOT to install the Adobe apps that supposedly require Bonjour, it still installs. #5 The features that we’ve been told rely on this app work perfectly without it. #6 Even when no Adobe apps are running Bonjour regularly contacts the Internet. #7 Disable shmisable. The DLL is still alive.
These are the hallmarks of spyware. Adobe screwed up big with this one.
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:56:26 -0700, thought it was important to mention:
You must have something to hide then. B)
Hmmph. a company installs software on your machine without your permission, without documentation and after expressly telling said comany you DON’T want it installed.
Adobe has loaded its apps up with a lot of peripheral functions that rely on tying users to their so called ‘services’ ‘meetings’ etc. Fine, if you want those features, but not fine when they lock your install into all that excess code that clogs up productive environments without the opportunity to choose what you want at the install stage. Thankfully, there is a way around their install procedure to choose what you want and a way to totally eliminate Bonjour. I run CS3 totally bare bones with PS and Bridge.
I run lean, fast, workflow specific machines and I don’t want any internet related crap on them, especially things like Bonjour that dance to an Adobe drummer, not me. I have one machine where all apps extraneous to the production environment clog each other’s arteries, including MS Office, etc,etc,etc.
It is the move to relinquishing install control that pisses me off most about Adobe’s recent software (really bloatware if you have to load up a machine with code that you do not require). It is a more sophisticated form of spamming in my opinion.
I don’t know why more of you aren’t really upset about this. Adobe crammed software down our throats without our knowledge or permission. We paid big bucks for CS3 and we ended up with a spyware connection to Adobe. I kept getting nagware popups in my browser to update my pdf plugin and I couldn’t figure out how to stop the Adobe reader from connecting to Adobe to tattle on me that I was using an older pdf reader version. I finally updated and ended up with all kinds of crapware that I had to uninstall! Who knows what spyware is included with Adobe Reader 8. Privacy is important and we are losing it.
John Joslin you are obviously an Adobe employee. If you’re a nice person you’ll get a good job. (Does your mother know you are doing this?)
Hi John, I appreciate your posting my last reply — (I thought it would be trashed). I was pretty mad when I last visited this site (a few hours ago). My accomplishments for this work day include un-installing Quicktime — it took over the possession of every filetype extension it could find & added a bunch of EXTRA crapware (that I didn’t want or know about ahead of time) that seems to be working all the time whether I’m using it or not. I also un-installed Acrobat reader 8 (that I mentioned in my last post) that added a bunch of EXTRA crapware (that I didn’t want or know about ahead of time) that seems to be working all the time whether I’m using it or not. I don’t honestly know where I picked up Bonjour (probably PH CS3 AND Acrobat reader 8) but PH CS3 seems to have added a bunch of EXTRA crapware (that I didn’t want or know about ahead of time) that seems to be working all the time whether I’m using it or not.
I admit I was even more irritated when I left this site than when I found it. I’m going to guess that’s true for a lot of your company’s customers that are trying to remove mDNSResponder.exe. I’ll try to explain why but first I want to address the solution for the mDNSResponder.exe removal problem. An URL was given by morrmar early on ( http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=kb40 0982) but that solution didn’t work for the people that tried it and they reported that in the entries above. They graciously shared their alternative solutions here on the board, but today (after all this time) you offered : < http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb 400982&sliceId=2> (The same solution that no one can get to work.)
That page instructs us to copy this into a command prompt window: "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe -remove"
Of course that won’t work and majapahit grand told you so above. He said to move the last quote like this "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe" -remove That works. max l solved the same problem above by navigating to the proper folder (cd c:\program files\bonjour\), then typing the command: mdnsresponder -remove That works. How many of your customers have either given up trying to remove Bonjour or got their computers messed up with one or more of the complicated alternative solutions above because you don’t pay attention to the posts?.
Here’s the most irritating part — you pretend not to understand why people are upset in the first place. That is evidenced by your responses.
"Why not just disable it if it bothers you?" See, now… that’s just irritating because you don’t seem to get it (I know you do, though). People are asking you for help to do just that (get rid of it)! right? c’mon now… admit it.
And the classic, "You must have something to hide then." That’s what the Nazi’s said when people resisted their breaking down doors. That’s what police say when they want to illegally search the trunk of your car. You know that guy that lives across the street from you? The one with the binoculars that is always looking into your kitchen window? Well, you don’t mind, right? After all "you don’t have anything to hide". right?
Now here is what the real bottom line problem is in very simple terms. (The real reason why I’m so mad!)
Your company has invaded my privacy! I feel (virtually) raped! See, I like to think that I am in control of MY computer. I like to think that I can fix it up the way I want to. (bet everyone at Adobe is laughing now, hahaha). No, no, people — I’m trying to be serious here. Creative, Sierra, WMPlayer, now Google and Adobe — all stepping over the line because they think they can (or could). Time will tell, but everytime I think of Adobe now, I’m going to think about bad stuff not good stuff. John, I bet you’re a nice guy and I hope you look for a job with a good company — but put the porn down and pay attention to the posts or you might have to.
Easy there Jim. I’m with you but no need for you to pop a vein. π
BTW, mDNSresponder -r removes itself clean enough but simply renaming and deleting the remaining DLL leaves behind some winsock related registry entries that could cause network problems. As I recommended in my earlier post they’re easily cleaned up with lspfix.exe.
And, as a footnote, I think this latest release of Photoshop IS a load of rubbish for a load of reasons, starting with the installer and going on from there.
I don’t need to list them Β it’s all here to see in this forum!
I removed Bonjour based on the above posts and I have had 3 weeks of frustration with a "Restart is required" dialog being thrown up every time I boot or try to choose "Update.." from the Help menu of any of the CS3 apps. The problem was finally solved by reinstalling Photoshop from the CS3 DVD. Based on this experience, I do not recommend removing Bonjour.
I just upgraded, tonight and already my computer is acting funny, my mouse speed actually "slows down" and is less responsive whenever it is over the Photoshop CS3 window (Active window only). Now this is not just a little bit slower, it is quite noticeable!
I have had computers since the early 80s, generally have above average hardware and have never had a software program actually slow down my system itself! I have not even had the chance to see if I actually "Like" the new program better than my even more expensive first foray into Adobe world. Don’t get me wrong, Photoshop 7 was worth every cent and I will most likely continue to use it.
Now, if this was some inexpensive program then you might expect there to "Be a catch" and you would just uninstall the program completely, or revert to a recent back up of your system and NEVER, EVER do business with that company AGAIN! Being a business man myself that use my computers to earn my paycheck I am keenly aware that you do not intentionally make your customers mad and their personal lives more stressful if you expect them to continue to do business with you! It is almost like you just do not want to remain in business at all.
I don’t care how good you think your "product" is, there are other "Products" out there are pretty good too. They are generally much less expensive, supported better and even though their new versions might gently pull a few more resources from the computer so that you would feel justified in getting a new computer every 12 to 18 months. But nothing that would actually be noticeably slower than before or you just would not continue to use that software.
And having very recently plunked down a "Wad" of cash for the "privilege" of using this version of the software I am very much hoping that the problem is resolved simply and completely and without "Me" having to do a lot of under the hood work. Pulling up a backup is much simpler then mucking around with the command line making registry changes by hand and that is most likely what I will do.
But the average user (I am a photographer and graphics designer) will quickly get lost and blow up his system. Most of my colleagues are great at what they do, but mucking around with such things are beyond the scope of their talents. These people earn their living with these machines and I guarantee if you make their lives miserable and or cause them financial hardship you will be wishing for a lawsuit. It would be much better than not ever being able to sell them anythingΒ ever again.
By the way, I have a feeling that I will be calling customer service or maybe dropping this note or an amended version of it to the Corporate office sometime soon.
I hope that there is an easy resolution to all of this, I really do.
It was not Yoko. It was not Linda. It was John Joslin. The very same John Joslin that works at Adobe. He is the one responsible for CS3. All by himselfΒ Jim outed John concerning Photoshop. I’m letting everyone know how he ruined the Beatles. Q
don solomon – 8:39am Jun 19, 07 PST (#31 of 57) Wrote: Thankfully, there is a way around their install procedure to choose what you want and a way to totally eliminate Bonjour.
So what is this method of installation full control? And why has nobody else asked this question? MY computer, I choose what to install! hvlnog902 at sneakemail.com
Read this thread, first post, where I indicate how it is done. It works perfectly–never had a hiccup since doing it. Got exactly what I wanted on and nothing else.
Robert Barnett, "CS3 Install Without Mandatory Payloads–Here’s How To Do it !!!!" #1, 5 May 2007 7:54 am </cgi-bin/webx?14/0>
True, but the trade off of becoming an Internet meme is certainly worth it, eh?
Imagine what would happen if we had an image of you! With this crowd of grfx fiends, we could have you placed at all of history’s most notorious moments…so you probably should consider yourself lucky <BG>…..
Many thanks. The bonjour service broke my Vista internet connection. After removing the Bonjour service, everthing works normally.
After I installed Dreamweaver CS3, I had no internet connection after rebooting Windows Vista.
Windows would start up and show both my network and an "unknown network" in the Network & Sharing Center. This may have happened since my son has a mac attached to the network. Because of the "unknown network", Vista locked out my connection to the internet through my router.
The work around was to disable & then enable my network connection. I had to do this everytime I rebooted. Very annoying.
Adobe should remove Bonjour from Dreamweaver. There is almost nothing worse than installing the best web site development tool and finding that your internet connection is broken. It had me worried that there was a fundamental bug in Dreamweaver.
Click Start > Right click on My Computer > Manage > Services and Applications > Services > Extended tab and #Id is probably at the top of the list.
Is it worthwhile in general disabling #Id?
wrote:
One gets the impression that they mean well but don’t think things through. In my book, that’s incompetence Β and unforgivable in a market leading application. CS3 seems to be littered with these bloopers.
From my experience if you dont use iTunes or the rest of the CS suite you can disable it, I did. It is a service and as such will use some resources and there is no problem unless you try to uninstall it then it can get complicated. But unless you are desperate for hard disk space, just disable it and everything is back to normal.
From my experience if you dont use iTunes or the rest of the CS suite you can disable it, I did. It is a service and as such will use some resources and there is no problem unless you try to uninstall it then it can get complicated. But unless you are desperate for hard disk space, just disable it and everything is back to normal.
thank you adobe, I didnt know about Bonjour, I didnt even know it got installed with Flash CS3, tried to kill it erasing all entries in the registry and it KILLED my internet connection
reinstalling windows didnt work, I had to format THANK YOU
Surely it’s better to turn off a light bulb by unscrewing it rather than using the wall switch?
personally, i use rocks. first i remove the light cover. then i step back about ten paces and pick up the pile of good sized rocks i’ve collected just for the purpose of turning off the lights. then i start chucking rocks at the bare bulb. sure there are some holes in the ceiling. and i broke the picture of my mother in law on the wall with a bad ricochet, but darn it, i get that light off, almost every time! π
next time don’t go messing with your registry. just read post #1! (I know, nobody reads post #1)
Dave, I went back and read post #1. So far it seems to work just fine. Thanks for the tip.
And, to everyone else, thanks for the entertainment and education. Now I know why the Beatles broke up, the cause of global warming and why gas prices continue to rise. John J, you’ve been a very busy guy!
As a tech, one of my favorite tools is ServiWin (free): <http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/serviwin.html> It’s an awesome little Windows Service controller. Applicability here: You can turn off Bonjour (or whatever else you want) with just a couple of mouse clicks and turn it back on when/if you need it. No mucking about with the registry or uninstalling something you end up needing later; just turn it off w/ServiWin to free up the resources and turn it back on when you need it.
Naturally, it’ll work for services other than Bonjour, too π I, for example, turn off Windows Auto Update until I’m ready to do an update run. Enable the service, get/install the updates, disable the service to free resources, carry on. Actually, I do the same for everybody’s update service…they’ll phone home when *I* want them to!.
Hijackthis entries.. Service: Bonjour Service – Apple Computer, Inc. – C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe Unknown file in Winsock LSP: c:\program files\bonjour\mdnsnsp.dll
Adobe, make lighter Apps.. its no wonder everyone is dumping adobe PDF reader and going with Foxit. Love the macromedia products you just bought and your direction and not dumping fireworks.. but cannot stand the spyware.
First of all disabling a service is not uninstalling it, it still takes up unnecessary bloat on the disk.
Second, they the hell are there so many morons posting in this thread? Going on about all kinds of optopic shit.
Adobe should clearly include an uninstall option for all the unnecessary crap they install – for the sick greedy amounts they demand from people they should offer some service back.
"not when it’s disabled in the services applet. then it never starts."
I beg to differ- I have it shut off, blocked off 27 ways from Sunday and it starts.
VIRUS makers are now using this with the IE -EMBED command with brand new Malware that is just abotu impossible to DELETE.
DELETING Bonjour does not work, deleting the FILES in the Program Files Folder does not work- Once Bonjour has ben Virus-ised, it cannot be shut off, and it cannot be DELETED.
Disable service and restart the system. Go to program files and delete bonjour folder. Then you can edit the regs by searching for the service as "##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##". Delete all and restart. There should be no problems this way at all. If the folder in program files fails to delete … open it and rename the files inside – restart the system and then proceed to delete again before editing regs. That should work with no problems – I hope – it did here and I will never install any Apple software on my Vista system for whatever reason.
Thank you for answer on a annoying problem with the stupid Bonjour service… Havent tried the program that another one recommanded. But to do it inside in tools was a discovery for me. thanks.
1. Open a Windows command prompt and type the following command: "C:\Program Files\Bonjour\mDNSResponder.exe" -remove 2. Navigate to the following folder in Windows Explorer: C:\Program Files\Bonjour 3. Rename the mdnsNSP.dll file in that folder to mdnsNSP.old 4. Restart your computer 5. Delete the the Program Files\Bonjour folder
