Adobe CS4 + Version Cue 4.0.1 = Fatal Error

I just ran Adobe Update for CS4, to check if any new versions are available. There were some. As always, most of them were not installed. But the installed ones destroyed my night in a few seconds. Illustrator was not running :

Illustrator.exe – Fatal Application Exit
The specified module could not be found. C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Version Cue CS4\4.0.1\VersionCue.DLL

I’m not a fan of Version Cue, I’m not using it, and hell the server is not even installed.

So why Illustrator asks for an updated version for a not-used-by-user application ?

As I figured out, this was the client DLL, and not the server. And what a surprise, Version Cue update I just downloaded from Adobe did not install on my PC. Why ? Because I don’t have any Version Cue server installed…

So, at the end, no updates are available for me, but my Illustrator wants that update to work.

So confusing…

If you ever encounter this error, there is no solution from Adobe.
But there is a hack you can use : Simply rename the 4.0.0 folder name to 4.0.1
Yep, that’s all…