Adobe: Need Options NOT To Install All Your Extraware!

I am a Windows expert. As such I prefer to keep my system lean and not run every last little thing installed by every application. What this means in practical terms, as relates to Creative Cloud, is this:
I use a tool called AutoRuns by Mark Russinovich to determine what's been installed and trim out things I really don't need running. With AutoRuns, one need only uncheck boxes to disable a component. It's a good way to manage one's system.
Adobe Creative Cloud is one of the worst offenders in that it installs eleventy seven extra things I don't need. And it REINSTALLS / RE-ENABLES a bunch of them every time Creative Cloud gets updated!
Though I'm a Photoshop expert, I don't actually use every last little cloud-integrated thing Adobe has provided, and I don't want them running.
Here is the list of Adobe extraware I have to keep disabling, over and over and over. I just had to do it again, after the latest update.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
AdobeAAMUpdater-1.0 - I choose when I do updates. I don't need your application using resources just to tell me when one's available.
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Adobe Creative Cloud - I don't need this to be able to run Photoshop or Acrobat! I don't use nor want all the cloud features - honest!
HKLM\Software\Classes\*\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers
AccExt - Whatever this adds to the Explorer context menu, I don't need nor want it!
HKLM\Software\Classes\Folder\ShellEx\ContextMenuHandlers
AccExt - See the above
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\ShellIconOverlayIdentifiers
AccExtIco1 - Don't want Adobe slowing down my File Explorer display with an overlay icon
AccExtIco2
AccExtIco3
There's a ton of other Adobe stuff I've disabled as well, which thankfully does not come back on every blasted update.
Adobe:
Please make it possible to deconfigure the reinstatement of the above things every time we get an update.
Provide clear documentation about what they do and offer options to disable them. Clearly you have already written the code in Photoshop, Acrobat, et. al. so that they are not required on the system for a user to run the applications. Some of us don't want them - honest!
Thanks.
-Noel

I'd like to bump this to the top as I have just yet again had to remove a whole bunch of items added back in after a Creative Cloud program update on one of my test systems.
It is *NOT* the job of Adobe to use up all the computer resources.
-Noel

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