Have you recently installed Photoshop CS3 and noticed a small file running on in the background of your system called Bojour.exe ?

I did and I had a mild scare, after a deep search on trusty ol’ Google and spending a few minutes looking around some forums I found the best way to get rid of this annoyance.

What is Bonjour.exe?

Don’t worry this is NOT A TROJAN or a VIRUS – well not if it suddenly appeared when you installed Adobe Photoshop CS3.

“On April 17th, Apple quietly released Bonjour for Windows 1.0.3, which itself isn’t breaking news, nor is the software itself anything for computer users to become overly excited about.” – http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/inside_wire_bonjour_convergence
Apple’s Mac is now the house that Windows are installed in. And as the owner of the house, Apple can make changes, many changes to the Windows therein.

The “Bonjour.exe” install is but one small example of this. It allows Windows users the opportunity to print from Internet Explorer, a feature that never seemed important to Microsoft, but to Apple, represented a consistent philosophy of simplicity defined. The potential for Apple to continue adding, even deleting software from Windows is evident.” – http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/inside_wire_bonjour_convergence

I think this is quite annoying and seems to be bundled on the sly, I don’t want it and/or need it!

Soo…

How to remove Bonjour.exe

On my version of windows I have program called “Unlock” in my control panel, if you don’t have this, don’t worry you can download it from here:

Unlocker.

It’s a VERY simple program and won’t embed itself or become irremovable, its a great little program you can use to “unlock” files that are running or linked to a currently running program.

All you have to do is go into the bonjour folder (search in windows for this) right click the bonjour.exe and run the unlocker program and delete the bonjour.exe file, there we go. Simple.

Enjoy.

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