How to Start AEM/ Adobe CQ5 Instance without Sample Content

When you install a new instance of Adobe Experience Manager a bunch of content is provided as Sample content. 

You can remove sample content by 2 ways

1.     Run the CQ instance from the command line with the run mode nosamplecontent.

      For Author Instance

            java -server -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx1024M -jar aem-author-p4502.jar 

                  -r author, nosamplecontent

      For Publish Instance

            java -server -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xmx1024M -jar aem-publish-p4503.jar 

                  -r publish, nosamplecontent    

2.  You can  uninstall the cq-geometrixx-all-pkg-5.6.12.zip package, as described in

     Uninstalling Packages. 

It is also a recommendation to Uninstall example content and users as part of the Adobe Experience Manager 5.6.1 Security Checklist especially in your Production environment.