I bought photoshop CS4 (standard) and like to customise my installs. For instance, I only care about Photoshop and the fonts that it comes with, not needing any of the additional superduper programs that make sense if you use multiple adobe suite programs, or require funky little utilities. However, I cannot turn these off when I pick "custom install" in the installer. More interestingly is the fact that I can turn off Drive, for instance, but not the 64 bit version of Drive, because they're not grouped; one is a component, the other a supporting component.

Except it's not necessary.

Version Cue and Updater, I can understand being supporting components, but why are Kuler, Drive, Connect, etc. not uncheckable? How do I prevent these things from hitting my computer, short of making a 32 bit virtual machine, installing a clean windows, network-attaching ThinApp, sandbox installing only the 32 bit version of photoshop and discarding all the stuff I didn't want, then turning that installation into a thinapp for actual use (which is a pretty big hassle =)

I don't mind that Photoshop comes with all of this, but I do mind not being able to say "no, I bought this, I know what I want" when I indicate that with the "custom install" option. How do I make everything selectable/unselectable?

I recall CS3 letting you modify the payload xml file so that the installer didn't pretend to know what required components were so required you couldn't unselect them (most of which were completely unnecessary), but this method doesn't work for CS4. Options? What can I do to make the installer do what *I* want, rather than what Adobe wants? They already have my money, they don't need to control how many irrelevant apps end up on my harddisk =)

- Mike Kamermans

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