I tried that and some stuff was left, so I thought, “Well, everything is hosed, might as well go nuclear” so I ran it at level 4.Īnnoyingly, the Version Cue service was still running. I found out about this from blog post on running the CS3 cleanup script and he got it from Adobe support. In theory, based on the options given, there are two levels on this cleanup utility, but in fact, there are four. This is a simple non-GUI tool that runs in a shell window. Run it a couple of times until it doesn’t seem to do anything more.

In theory this utility is for cleaning up the beta distro to install the full package, but it cleaned tons of stuff off my system. Go get the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility (scroll down that page for the actual download link).Salim noted in the comments below that it’s probably best to boot into Safe Mode for this which might help with some conflicts. So I eventually found out that you need to download a special program to clean up the detritus left by CS3. What follows is what I did step-by-step to get unstuck. So anyway, I got stuck in this thing where I had some parts of CS3 removed, which was causing other parts to fail, but I could neither repair the installation nor remove the apps.

I was hoping it might help my group manage collaboration on InDesign documents, but it is not appropriate for what we want (I want real concurrent versioning for Word or InDesign, but I don’t think it’s possible). Basically, all I was trying to do was get rid of the absurd and unnecessary Version Cue Server, which absolutely should not be installed, and Version Cue, which should not be a default option. I totally messed things up with a botched uninstall of Adobe CS3.

Uninstalling adobe photoshop cs3