I had already uninstalled Creative Cloud but its zombie folder was still there. (Win11/64bit/most recent updates.) Looked for hours, tried tons, nothing would work. Maybe for you Adobe’s unPinCCF tool would work, or using regedit to set System.IsPinnedToNameSpaceTree to 0 would - but not for me.
TLDR (thanks, Aubrey and Bortao) Delete the following registry key (after making a backup of your registry ofc):
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace\0E270DAA-1BE6-48F2-AC49-5CE0DBECC398
Bortao reports- “The last part of the number is random, so open Regedit and browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\NameSpace, find a key starting with 0E270DAA-1BE6-48F2-AC49 and remove it.” Me, I found it by Ctrl-F and looking for “creative cloud files” until I landed on that one. Deleted it, rebooted, GONE.
Aubrey’s help: https://superuser.com/questions/1758115/adobe-creative-cloud-removal-and-regedit
Bortao’s comment in this link: https://superuser.com/questions/1642874/how-to-remove-creative-cloud-files-shortcut-from-windows-explorer-left-navigati/1652595#1652595
This is NOT the only thing that worked for other people, so I should post my notes from this long trek, maybe one of the simpler paths might work for others
Adobes solution probably only works if CC is still installed and running. Those reg keys certainly aren’t tied to Windows and a flag that says “unPinCCF” is probably just a flag to the process that sets it up and removes it.
Removing it should be part of the uninstall, but leave it to a megacorp to leave a little “don’t you miss us? See how cool it would be if this folder worked? So convenient!” dark pattern in there just to try and entice you back…