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Make Acrobat Reader load 75% faster!

I saw this and tried it .... It is amazing!  Found on slashdot.

Actually, this is much easier. Go to your Acrobat\Reader folder and take everything from the "plug_ins" folder and move it into "Optional" except the following: Search.api, Search5.api, IA32.api, EWH32.api, EScript.api. Printing and search will still work, and it will load 75% faster. This is on Reader 6.0.
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Posted: Friday, May 07, 2004 2:19 PM by chjohn
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Mark said:

Works a charm :D

Thanks man...
# May 7, 2004 2:42 PM

Steve Clarke said:

Joseph Cox has written a neat little utility called Adobe Reader Speed-UP that takes care of this automatically for you, allowing you to add and remove plugins from a tidy GUI.

http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/


# May 7, 2004 2:49 PM

vbNullString said:

Yeah! It works! Great!
# May 7, 2004 5:17 PM

Uwe said:

So Microsoft is reading Slashdot, too. Cool :-)
# May 8, 2004 12:28 AM

jon said:

wow... that's wicked fast now.
# May 8, 2004 4:11 AM

Scott C Reynolds said:

Awesome! That has always annoyed me.
# May 11, 2004 12:10 PM

TrackBack said:

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# May 11, 2004 5:02 AM

Bellbits Blog said:

A note -- and some feedback -- on making Acrobat Reader MUCH faster.  Acrobat PDF files work great but, boy,...
# May 18, 2004 5:10 PM

hlz said:

It also works on Mac OS 10.3. Like this: Show package content of reader 6.0 app. Navigate to the plugin folder and move everything you dont need to another folder.
# July 2, 2004 2:51 AM

An attempt at structured thought. said:

Another handy link
# October 16, 2004 3:44 AM

Enter the Tatrix said:

# January 9, 2005 5:58 PM

Jonathan Hardwick said:

# January 31, 2005 4:27 AM

Jonathan Hardwick said:

Like most other techies, whenever I install Adobe’s Acrobat Reader I also uninstall most of the pointless

# October 3, 2006 3:25 PM
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