Bonjour

Bonjour everyone! I’m experimenting with shutting off “Bonjour.” What am I talking about, you ask? From Adobe:

“When you install any edition of the Adobe Creative Suite 3 family or a Creative Suite 3 component on Windows, Bonjour for Windows is installed as a service on the machine. Bonjour is Apple's open source implementation of zero-configuration networking software. It is used by Adobe Version Cue CS3 client applications to dynamically discover Version Cue Servers on the local network.”

Why turn this off? I’ve been reading on several forums that users have experienced slower computing after installing CS3 products, and have elected to uninstall this service; so far I have just stopped it from running automatically – and I’ve noticed a significant improvement! Perhaps this is merely coincidence. I’ll give it a day or two.

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So, how do you view or change the setting?

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Services

You’ll see a list of Windows services. A known bug is that the name used by Bonjour for Windows in the Services control panel is a bit freaky:

##Id_String2.6844F930_1628_4223_B5CC_5BB94B879762##

More from Adobe’s Tech Note: “Removing Bonjour prevents Version Cue clients (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Flash, Bridge) from automatically discovering Version Cue Servers and Version Cue projects in your local network. You will need to connect manually using Connect to Server and the URL or IP address of the machine running Version Cue Server instead.”

À la prochaine!