Adobe Premiere Elements 11 by Adobe

What is Adobe Premiere Elements 11?

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How do I clean Adobe Premiere Elements 11?

Adobe Premiere Elements 11 may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.

Clean Adobe Premiere Elements 11
with AppCleaner

If you want to clean Adobe Premiere Elements 11 manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There are three locations in the file system where Adobe Premiere Elements 11 stores data that can be cleaned.Additionally,Adobe Premiere Elements 11 stores private data in one registry key.

Registry

To clean the registry from data stored by Adobe Premiere Elements 11, you can use the Microsoft Registry Editor (regedit.exe) which is installed by default on all Windows operating systems. First of all, open regedit.exe by carrying out these steps:

• Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
• Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
• Type regedit.exe
• Hit Enter

Now use regedit.exe to delete the registry key:

1. • Expand HKEY_CURRENT_USER from the root of the tree in the left pane.
   • Expand Software.
   • Expand Adobe.
   • Expand Premiere Elements.
   • Expand 11.0.
   • Right-click MRUDocuments.
   • Choose Delete from the context menu.
   • Click Yes.

Files

To clean your file system from files stored by Adobe Premiere Elements 11 and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system locations. First of all, open a command prompt window:

• Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
• Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
• Type cmd
• Hit Enter

Now list all the files stored by Adobe Premiere Elements 11 that can be cleaned:

1. Type dir %USERPROFILE%\Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements/11.0/*.log
   • Windows XP: Type dir %USERPROFILE%\My Documents/Adobe/Premiere Elements/11.0/*.log
2. Type dir %USERPROFILE%\Documents/NewBlueFX/Logs/*.log
   • Windows XP: Type dir %USERPROFILE%\My Documents/NewBlueFX/Logs/*.log
3. Type dir %USERPROFILE%\Documents/NewBlueFX/Logs/*.txt
   • Windows XP: Type dir %USERPROFILE%\My Documents/NewBlueFX/Logs/*.txt
4. Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Adobe/Common/Thumbnail Cache/*

Once you have identified the files stored by Adobe Premiere Elements 11 that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.