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In a recent effort to completely remove all traces of Adobe software and Creative Cloud, following a variety of guides (I can link below). I think the absolute last breadcrumb on the trail was a (Windows 11) registry entry related to Creative Cloud which pinned it to the Local Drive Index in Windows Explorer.

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I changed the value of System.IsPinnedTo... to 0 which removed it from the Local Drive Shortcuts in Explorer.

My question is can I just delete these Registry entries entirely?

Thanks for your help.

FYI: These are the guides I followed in the Adobe (Creative Cloud) removal process: https://photographylife.com/how-to-remove-adobe-creative-cloud

Adobe has a proprietary piece of software intended to solve this problem and edit the registry but it didn't work for me. https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/remove-cc-files-folder-shortcut-navigation-panel.html

So I did it manually https://www.alphr.com/remove-creative-cloud-files-file-explorer-sidebar/

Aubrey
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The registry entry for {0E270DAA-1BE6-48F2-AC49-FD8E73FEA996} is related to Adobe and can be deleted, according to the post How do I remove the 'Creative Cloud Files' folder from my PC?

However, if your case is similar to the one described in this post, and this registry entry will be re-created on the next reboot, you will need to use the same solution of taking ownership and setting all permissions to Deny.

In the future, I suggest using Revo Uninstaller Free to uninstall software and detect all its leftovers.

harrymc
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Yes, you can delete this registry entries.

It can be difficult to do so: For me the solution was in a comment by user bortao, in response to this superuser question

I had to delete this registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\0E270DAA-1BE6-48F2-AC49-5CE0DBECC398

Bortao notes that part of the string is random. Like others, in regedit I searched on "creative cloud files" (there are a few before you hit the right one.)

Most of the support articles I found also recommended just setting the value of System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree from 1 to 0. But those didn't work for me; neither did Adobe's unPinCCF tool. But user Aubrey's links from the question here got me there eventually, so thanks to both of you for the help!

Dorkbotulism
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