Are you
disappointed to remove Photoshop Lightroom? My mom’s friend downloaded
Photoshop Lightroom for a free trial. Few weeks back she changed some setting
in the program to apply some “current” settings to all the images that she
opens in the future. Now she thinks it was a bad idea because she cannot make
this thing stop applying these settings. She could not remember what exactly
was changed either. Now, she is looking on her programs and it’s not there. But
when she sticks in memory card to upload pictures, it pops up. She needs to
delete it so she can upload the pictures with a different program. She has done
google/bing/yahoo but so far no luck in disabling this option? Fortunately,
there are the best removal tips in this article.
How to Remove
Lightroom 3 on Windows XP
Choose Start >
Settings > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs.
Choose Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom 3 and click Remove.
Delete the
preferences file, the catalog file, and other Lightroom files on your computer.
For a list of those files and their default locations, see the following
documents:
Documents and
Settings/[username]/Application Data/Adobe/Lightroom/Preferences folder.
Program
Files/Adobe/ Lightroom 3
The Documents and
Settings/[user name]/My Documents/My Pictures/Lightroom folder contains:
Lightroom 3
Catalog.lrcat, the Lightroom database file
Lightroom 3
Catalog.lrcat.lock, which prevents you from overwriting data
The Lightroom 3
Catalog Previews.lrdata folder, which contains additional folders for preview
files and data
Registration
information is located in the Windows registry, in the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Adobe/Lightroom/1.0/Registration key folder.
Remove Lightroom 3
on Windows Vista, Windows 7
Choose Start >
Control Panel > Programs and Features.
Under Programs,
select Lightroom 3 and click Uninstall.
Delete the
preferences file, the catalog file, and other Lightroom files on your computer.
For a list of those files and their default locations, see the following
documents:
The Photoshop
Lightroom application is the Lightroom.exe file, located in the Program
Files/Adobe/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3 folder.
The preferences
file is Lightroom 3 Preferences.agprefs, located in
Users/[user
name]/AppData/Roaming/Adobe/Lightroom/Preferences/.
The Users/ [user
name]/My Pictures/Lightroom folder contains:
Lightroom 3
Catalog.lrcat, the Photoshop Lightroom database file
Lightroom 3
Catalog.lrcat.lock, which prevents you from overwriting data
The Lightroom 3
Catalog Previews.lrdata folder, which contains additional folders for preview
files and data
Registration data
is located in the C:/ProgramData/Adobe/Lightroom/Lightroom 3.0
Registration.lrreg file.
If you find it a
daunting task for you to follow the steps above to remove Lightroom 3, you
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Force Uninstall
Photoshop Lightroom 3
Find the directory
directly in the hard drive where you locate Lightroom 3 as below:
C:\Program
Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 3.6
Right click the
directory to select “Uninstall with PU” to start the removal.
Follow the
onscreen steps to finish the removal.
Restart your
computer and repeat the Uninstall procedure until all directories of Photoshop
Lightroom 3.are gone.