How do I remove the 'Adobe Notification Client' process that runs on startup?

I find it really annoying that this is process running — among loads of others on startup — just because I installed Adobe Creative Cloud. It’s like it installs a dozen Trojans on my system that surely don’t need to be running when I’m not using Adobe products like Photoshop?

I disabled all the service-based ones, but I can’t figure out how to remove or disable this specific one. What can be done?

1 Answer

Thanks to Dwinky’s post in the official Adobe Support forums, you can use the following command:

Get-AppxPackage -AllUsers *AdobeNotificationClient* | Remove-AppxPackage -AllUsers

It seems to work. Just run that command in an elevated (administrator) Powershell. It should complete without error and the process will be removed from your system.

I’m not 100% certain that it won’t come back (they always seem to!), but it’s clean for now.