[ducttape45]

I've tried GIMP in the past and wasn't overly impressed with it. It just didn't seem to be as "user friendly" as CS4. The way the screens displayed and all just didn't impress me.

HOWEVER

I am going to purchase me a new hard drive and load a Linux distro soon. I'll give it another shot.

On the Adobe Integrity Service, I finally found where it was loaded on my computer and activated via the registry. I removed the folder/files, deleted the entry from my registry and no more popups.

Sneaky, Adobe, very sneaky.

[Johnny Cakes]

I have been hit with this problem despite purchasing directly from Adobe. I called the number but they claimed they could not find me in their database, which is really not my problem.

Anyway, ducttape45, could you PLEASE post the registry key you deleted and the location of the files/folders deleted?

Appreciated, DuctTape, very appreciated!

[Nateman]

I'll agree it has a high learning curve, I bought a book just to learn about. I took a class in Adobe Photoshop and it did not have much over Gimp. Photoshop had a great warp feature which clearly was better than the one Gimp had, but it keep crashing.

That said two advantages remain with GIMP: it's FREE and the file types are not going to change just so you have to keep updating the software..