Force uninstall Adobe Illustrator CS3

Bearsy · 10-21-2010, 01:19 AM

For some reason my brother installed a fucked up, pirated version of Illustrator on my PC that doesn't work. However when I go to Add/Remove programs it goes through the motions of uninstalling it, up til the last second when I get an error message...

It's eating up a shit ton of my C drive partition and I need to get rid of it. I've barely got enough room on the allotted 21gbs without this 2gb hulk taking up space when I can't even use the damn program.

I can't find it anywhere on my computer except in the Control Panel.

~1~ · 10-21-2010, 08:45 AM

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John F. Kerry · 10-21-2010, 10:19 AM

if u cant uninstall it u might have to reinstall your os, because if it installed some malware drivers or something ur fucked.

~1~ · 10-21-2010, 02:33 PM

Malwarebytes

Reformatting is so extreme, if you try a little you can find shit and get rid of it.

One program is never a fix-all by the way, some are better at one thing than another, figure out what suits your needs best and go for it.

This thing works too by the way.

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**Mafoo** · 10-21-2010, 10:09 PM

did you try going to the adobe site to get a new uninstaller?

Bearsy · 10-22-2010, 11:15 AM

^didn't think of that

I used that Revo program though, and it's gone. Although no real space was cleared up, so I'm assuming it was just remnants of the program.

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