Acrobat XI Pro Windows Installation Size

Question

Hello,
I am reaching out my fellow Windows users on this one.
I have Acrobat XI Pro installed on Windows 7 64-bit and my install size is over 7GB!
Does anyone else see this? What could Acrobat possibly need that much space for? I barely even use Acrobat save to read PDFs or generate reports or make scans of documents in PDF format.
Any help or insight here would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi Brett,
You see 2 entries for Acrobat in the control panel because- One is the actual application and the other is Creative Cloud’s licensing package for Acrobat. That it is named Adobe Acrobat XI Pro just like the full package is a bit confusion but it’s documented in the Creative Cloud documentation for Acrobat.
https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/packager/deploying-acrobat.html
Uninstalling Acrobat on Windows
Once you have deployed Acrobat using the package in the Exceptions folder, you can uninstall it using the usual process for uninstalling msi packages. There are two MSI packages that are necessary to uninstall in a standalone package.  One for the main MSI package that the Creative Cloud Packager creates which is for licensing and the second MSI package which is the Acrobat Pro MSI package which is in the Exceptions folder. 
Here is the command line syntax for uninstalling Acrobat:
Syntax Example:
msiexec.exe /x <path to Acrobat msi file> /qn
Here is the command line syntax for uninstalling the Creative Cloud Packager licensing package:
Syntax Example:
msiexec.exe /uninstall <path to the CCP msi file> /quiet
Regards,
Rave