Can I uninstall Bridge?

I have the master collection, but at the moment only installed the design suite programs (because I don't have time to load it all on yet) And I was wondering with the programs I installed if uninstalling bridge will corrupt or make problems for any other programs that are on. I originally wasn't planning on installing bridge because it's such a memory hog, and just plain pointless in my opinion (another story for another day), but it didn't give me the option which was kind of frustrating.
If anyone could tell me if it will be okay to uninstall bridge, you would be helping me out a lot. Thank you.

juicydbase wrote:
I have the master collection, but at the moment only installed the design suite programs (because I don't have time to load it all on yet) And I was wondering with the programs I installed if uninstalling bridge will corrupt or make problems for any other programs that are on. I originally wasn't planning on installing bridge because it's such a memory hog, and just plain pointless in my opinion (another story for another day), but it didn't give me the option which was kind of frustrating.
If anyone could tell me if it will be okay to uninstall bridge, you would be helping me out a lot. Thank you.
You can't uninstall Bridge without jumping through hoops.
You don't mention if you have CS4 but if you do I suggest that, rather than messing with your system, you seriously consider learning what Bridge can do – it's vastly improved.
And, correctly configured on a correctly configured computer, it is NOT a memory hog.
You must be doing something wrong!

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