Q: Help me stop a pop up message from CS4ServiceManager telling me to install legacy Java SE 6 runtime

I have them installed like this on critical production systems (iMacs downgraded to 10.9 and CS 5.5) and thats all I want to say before I anger the stability gods, but I'm not adverse to learning and attempting another method that can be more stable and flexible.

JimmyCMPIT wrote:

 

I have them installed like this on critical production systems (iMacs downgraded to 10.9 and CS 5.5) and thats all I want to say before I anger the stability gods, but I'm not adverse to learning and attempting another method that can be more stable and flexible.

Too late. The "programmer gods" are displeased. Java is (once again) dead: https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/moving_to_a_plugin_free

I don't know what this means for the OS X JRE. Oracle hasn't said if they will release a new JRE at all. They seem to suggest they are going back to the first days of Java where every app ships with its own JRE. That is essentially what Oracle's Java web plug-in does right now, much to certain people's confusion.

Java can't die soon enough. It, Windows, and Flash are the most security hole ridden pieces of software on the planet.

Flash will eventually fade out as HTML5 completely displaces the need for it to run video on the web. Only older computers (and there's still tons of 'em) that have web browsers which can't be updated to include HTML5 are holding back its demise. YouTube is converting all video content to MP4 so they play under HTML5. They still have much of it duplicated as Flash content for backward compatibility, but you can bet within 5 years or so, they'll dump all of the Flash video.

I have the same problem.  Sometimes it pops up as CS4SeviceManager and sometimes it pops up as CS5ServiceManager.

I have searched my iMac but can't find these two items and I can't delete them.

I wonder if any El Capitan experts can show me how to remove these two items so they will never pop up again.

If you have Adobe CS4 and/or CS5 installed on your iMac, you shouldn't be deleting components. Instead, as has been previously mentioned, installing Apple's legacy Java should banish the pop-ups asking for it.