[SOLVED] Adobe

[nbartolo7]

I have an Adobe folder on my AppData Roaming section, in my brand-new OS install. Does it automatically come with W10? Why is it there? I didn't install it.

+ I heard adobe was dead since 2020, can I safely remove this?

 

[USAFRet]

Adobe Reader may have come with some other application or driver, to allow you to read their documentation.

Also, "Print to PDF" is an integral print function.

"Adobe" is not 'dead'. Some of the extra subsystems in the Adobe world were discontinued, but Adobe, and the PDF function, is still very much alive.

There is no reason to delete it. You gain nothing but a tiny tiny bit of drive space. And possibly lose some functionality.
Leave it alone.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Just as an aside "Adobe" is the name of a company, not a product. Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Photoshop, etc. are all products produced by Adobe.

 

[Colif]

it comes with windows 10, there are also adobe drivers through out it.

if you don't use it, you can delete it - link
i don't understand how you casually discover you have this folder.

 

[DSzymborski]

I'm going to be brutally direct here. If you didn't even know that Adobe was a thing in 2022, you almost certainly lack the knowledge background to mess with Windows outside of user settings and certainly have no good reason to start digging into system folders.

Just because I can change the oil in my car and the tires doesn't mean I have any business disassembling the transmission.

 

[USAFRet]

As a wise old geek told me decades ago...."If you didn't create it, don't delete it"

 

[ex_bubblehead]

As a wise old geek told me decades ago...."If you didn't create it, don't delete it"

Parallels that which a wise old Master Chief once opined..... "If you don't know enough about it to be able to teach it to someone else then keep your $%^&# hands off of it!"

 

[USAFRet]

Parallels that which a wise old Master Chief once opined..... "If you don't know enough about it to be able to teach it to someone else then keep your $%^&# hands off of it!"

I know that guy.

I am that guy...😉

 

[nbartolo7]

i don't understand how you casually discover you have this folder.

Because remember, I am messing around AppData because of my Steam saves.

 

[USAFRet]

Because remember, I am messing around AppData because of my Steam saves.

Mess with it long enough, you're gonna break it.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Because remember, I am messing around AppData because of my Steam saves.

There's a very good reason that AppData is hidden by default. You're not supposed to be mucking around in there, especially if you don't know what you are doing.