How to make Adobe Reader 7.0 load faster
The Adobe Reader installation adds a number of plugins that you are not ever likely to use. Each time you run Adobe Reader, these plugins all load, adding to the start-up time. You can unload most of the plugins, getting Reader to start faster.
1. Select Edit -> Preferences:
- On the General tab: turn off “Automatically save document changes”
- On the Internet tab: turn off all three checkboxes
- On the Page Display tab: turn on “CoolType”
- On the Search tab: turn off “Enable fast find”
- On the Startup tab: turn off “Show messages and automatically update”
2. Select View -> Toolbars; turn off “Rotate view” and “Search the internet”. Under “Show button labels”, turn them all on so you can see what each icon means.
3. Open Windows Explorer and do the following:
- Navigate to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader
- Right-click to create a new folder, and call it plugins_uninstalled
- Move all the .api files (except those noted at the end of this step) from the plug_ins folder to your new plugins_uninstalled folder. * Do not move: AcroForm.api (for form-filling), Escript.api (dependency of AcroForm.api), search.api and search5.api (search functionality).
Note: If you want to know what each plugin does, start Reader before you make any changes and go to Help -> About -> Adobe Plugins to learn what each plug-in does and what its dependencies are.
4. Final step; go to Start -> All Programs -> Startup, and right-click and delete the “Adobe Reader Speed Launch” link that Adobe silently added to your startup process.
If you are using Acrobat 6, the steps are different. You can find the instruction here. Better yet, go to the Adobe site and download the latest version. It’s free.
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