CC desktop icon suddenly appeared?

[Cathy2013]

Does anyone know why I suddenly have a CC desktop icon when I have no CC products, don’t use it and have no intention of doing so? The icon appeared after yesterdays update (of which about half failed...)

I do run CS6.

Cheers Maris

[Sheena Kaul]

Hi Maris,

Try running the CC uninstaller: Creative Cloud Help | Uninstall the Creative Cloud desktop app

Regards,

Sheena

[Cathy2013]

I know I can uninstall it... this doesn't answer the question... Why is it there?

Regards,

Maris

[Sheena Kaul]

Maris actually after the update, the Adobe CC desktop app might have appeared as there are some core services that run in the background.

[Cathy2013]

Hi Sheena,

Thanks for that... What "core services"? and are they the reason the Adobe doesn't recommend removing it?

[Sheena Kaul]

The Adobe desktop services which run and manage the complete applications on your machine.

You are right that is why it is recommended to not to remove them.