I installed cs6. now can i deinstall cs5?

Question

I installed CS6 (not trial version).  Can I deinstall CS5?  I'm afraid I will lose my credentials, or also might remove some shared files.  What about Camera Raw?  I'm afraid ACR might be deinstalled.  Speaking of ACR, I see no way of determining which version of ACR is running.  When I'm in Bridge CS6 and open ACR, how do i know it's the new version?

Answer 1

I deinstalled CS5 and only had one slight problem. PSD files then default on opening to QuickTime viewer. A dialogue may come up when you attempt to open a PSD file from Bridge after the deinstall of CS5 that  some default has changed for QuickTime and do you want to restore default or something like that. No other info, so I responded yes and perhaps should have said no. The PSD files then open in QuickTime!  Easy to fix. Go into Windows Explorer, right-mouse on a PSD file and set default to PS6.
Also, I deinstall programs through a wonderful deinstall program as Windows deinstall is very bad about leaving garbage behind. This deinstaller always first checks if the application to be deinstalled has it's own deinstaller and if it does, uses it, so it used the Adobe deinstaller. When done with a deinstall, it offers to clean up the mess often left by deinstallersregistry, and files and shortcuts and other garbage. In the case of CS5 it thankfully gave me a warning that CS5 and CS6 were installed in the same directory and to be careful of cleaning up any further. This deinstaller then shows all the items left behind and there was a TON of itemscomplicated names--far too much stuff. I thought it best to leave them alone. PS6 and Bridge work fine after the deinstall and leaving all those other things alone, but my whole point is that I have 30+ years of IT experience and think Adobe is playing a very dangerous game by installing new versions of their software in the same folder as the older version. It's not the right thing to do from an architectural perspective, nor a safe thing to do, and could cause customers real headaches  Let this warning go out to anyone deinstalling previous version. By the way, I use Revo uninstaller, which, by the way, also creates a restore point BEFORE doing any deinstall so a customer could completely in-do a deinstall if problems.
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