Evil Adobe leave my machine alone!

I was beginning to dislike Adobe for what it has done with
Dreamweaver et al but now it is every bit as arrogant as Apple. Get
a pop up message that an update for Flash is available being
security conscious. Now every time I right click on a whole swathe
of files, instead of my useful functions it tries to launch
Contribute part of Dreamweaver I have never wanted to use. I have
to cancel it to try and do what I want.
What a great way to build a brand. I have always been a light
user of Flash in websites I will make sure that I use it not at all
where possible.
Update appreciated to "unimprove" my user experience.
Useless muppets is the cleanest thing I can say to express my
opinion.

confusing description of your issue...
the popup is when you visit a website right?
Right click on files where? On your hard drive I assume? What
kind of files? what does "swathe" mean
here? FLA? SWF? HTML? All of the above?
The right click context menu is now being replaced by what
exactly? I can't reproduce this here.
Are you in DW when this happens? Or in the OS? or Flash?
If you "never wanted to use" Contribute - why not uninstall
it (assuming it is installed and thereby
the integration between other products as well - a good thing
for most).
I think you are in the vast minority here and possibly just
looking to vent instead of learn the
solution (which may be a very simple one) but hard to help
when your description is prompts more
questions than answers.
What platform are you on?
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Steve Homer wrote:
> I was beginning to dislike Adobe for what it has done
with Dreamweaver et al
> but now it is every bit as arrogant as Apple. Get a pop
up message that an
> update for Flash is available being security conscious.
Now every time I right
> click on a whole swathe of files, instead of my useful
functions it tries to
> launch Contribute part of Dreamweaver I have never
wanted to use. I have to
> cancel it to try and do what I want.
>
> What a great way to build a brand. I have always been a
light user of Flash in
> websites I will make sure that I use it not at all where
possible.
>
> Update appreciated to "unimprove" my user experience.
>
> Useless muppets is the cleanest thing I can say to
express my opinion.
>

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