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Tell me about it. Even when you have the DVDs, it seems to take forever to
install CS4.
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
> With some applications, you have to go through the first step or two
> of the installer before it gives you the menu with the uninstall
> command.
>
> Adobe's current installer is the WORST I've encountered in many years,
> maybe since the old tall-stack-of-diskette ones for early versions of
> OS/2. It seems like it takes an hour-plus to download the package, an
> hour-plus to "prepare" the installer, and an hour-plus to actually
> install the app.
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Chris Morton <salt -dot- morton -at- gmail -dot- com>
> wrote:
> > >From a co-worker:
> >
> >
> >> So I'm finally loading that Adobe suite of software (Photoshop, Acrobat
> >> Pro, Dreamweaver, etc.) and decided to uninstall Photoshop Elements,
> Acrobat
> >> Reader and an expired trial version of Acrobat Pro first.
> >>
> >
> >
> >> When I went to uninstall the trial version, it would only go into the
> >> install menu.
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
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