Sorry, I don't believe there's any way to remove it (the setting in Photoshop is the exception).

Just curious - what is it about this particular item that motivates you to want to remove it?  Are there other items that appear in your applications' interface that are equally annoying, or is there something special about this one?

Ah - so just to clarify, you're really looking to disable network access, rather than wanting to get rid of that particular piece of the user interface.  It's not the presence of the button itself that's a problem, it's network access.  Correct?

It's possible to disable network access, but there's no provision to remove the CS Live menu itself (at least not from InDesign or Illustrator - Photoshop does include an option to show/hide the CS Live menu in its Plug-Ins preferences).

Network access (for Photoshop, InDesign or Illustrator) can be disabled by editing a plist (Mac) or registry entry (Windows), but CS Live menu will still be there.  If you disable network access, then the first item on the CS Live menu will say "Access to CS Live Services has been disabled".

Just rename "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CS5ServiceManager" for example to "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CS5ServiceManager.bak"

You can find the same folder under "/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CS5ServiceManager"

And in PS, you need to disable it under Preference->Plug-ins

This is perfect. Thanks.

Perhaps Adobe should have a little humility and,  since their programming model is to run pretty much their entire set of programs as frameworks that run plugins, just make sure to give the user the easy, accessible opportunity to remove the more ridiculous items of their feature sets. I mean really, "let's put a big, grotesque button for a feature only some people will use occasionally." Seriously.

but is not the service for photoshop to work ?

i mean to check that is legit copy ?

thanks

Hey thanks for thisvery useful info!

Excellent - I've done this too. Would have been so much easier if Adobe had allowed it to be turned off via the interface or Preferences

The CS Live Button totally interferes with Adobe Connect Pro when you are trying to share the Photoshop application.  The Sharing button is behind the CS Live and block usage of the Sharing button such as Stop and Annotation.  What an example of one Adobe Product interfering with another.  I also want to get rid of the CS Live button and try to demonstrate Photoshop in Adobe Connect Pro.