[Creative Cloud Desktop App] - stop it loading

[neonetman]

We have installed Adobe Creative Cloud on all of our PCs, however the software is only licensed for certain staff and students. We have an issue with anyone who is not licensed having the Creative Cloud Desktop app opening a browser tab for login every few minutes.

 

Has anyone found a way (via registry or GPO) to prevent the CC Desktop app from loading on startup?

 

The only solution I've found so far is to uninstall the desktop app, however it re-appears next time an update is applied

 

Thanks in advance folks!

[DavR]

We've done this by deleting the below registry key;

 

HKLM\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Adobe Creative Cloud

 

I think that's all we did, it's a while back now. You may also want to check under SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run and see if there's anything under there that needs killing off too.

[DavR]

Nosing around in our policies, I've also just found the following fix under user settings.

 

Under %localappdata%\Adobe\OOBE, create a file called com.adobe.acc.default.prefs with content;

 

false

This should correspond to the launch at login setting in the Adobe CC application itself.

 

We've deployed this file from a server share to users using GP Prefs files. There's also a couple of other ones around autoupdate, but I'm not convinced how effective those are.

Edited June 6, 2023 by DavR