Bonjour this may help

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carr3hey
May 8, 2007
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http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2007/01/cs3_doesnt_inst.html, I’ve successfully removed the whole Bonjour crap (both mDNSResponder.exe and mdnsNSP.dll) using the following steps which I’d like to share with you:
1. Stop the Bonjour service:
Open a console windows (aka Command Prompt) and enter:
sc stop "Bonjour service"
2. Delete the Bonjour service:
In the same console windows (or a new one, doesn’t matter), enter: sc delete "Bonjour service"
3. Disable the Bonjour socket driver:
Open the registry editor (if you don’t know how, you probably shouldn’t do it, as things can go very bad if you do something wrong), go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\
CurrentControlSet\Services\WinSock2\
Parameters\NameSpace_Catalog5\
Catalog_Entries\000000000004
where you’ll find the key:
Enabled=REG_DWORD:00000001
Double click on that and change it from 1 to 0.
4. Reboot, the driver will not be loaded any more.
5. Delete the Bonjour directory (with the files mDNSResponder.exe and mdnsNSP.dll).
It has escaped me before that socket drivers are probably numbered sequentially – therefore differently from system to system. In other words, the Bonjour driver may not be the entry "000000000004" on your computer. So please, instead of blindly disabling the entry number 4, do manually go through all entries within "Catalog_Entries" and find the one with the key: DisplayString=REG_SZ:mdnsNSP
If you’ve installed CS3 just recently, that entry is most likely the last one (with the highest number). Disable that entry – with "mdnsNSP" as DisplayString – only.
If using Windows XP…
**Make sure you have system restore turned ON**
start -> run -> type ‘cmd’ to bring up a command prompt type ‘sc stop "Bonjour Service"’ (include the double quotes but not the single ones!)
type ‘sc delete "Bonjour Service"’
Then go to the Bonjour folder and delete the .exe. There is also a dll that cannot be deleted. Change the name of the dll and reboot, and then delete it. After that, you need to run a free downloadable program called lspfix, http://www.scanwith.com/download/LSPFix.htm, because Bonjour fouls yet something else up that I don’t completely understand, but the fix does, in fact, work. You may need Admin rights to do this.
I’m not sure.
BTW, deleting Bonjour has had no negative impact on my Adobe or ITunes apps that I have been able to discern; which raises yet MORE questions about why it is required in the first place.
Good luck and Just Say No to Bonjour.
John

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