Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

AndrewSeven — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 03:00:00 GMT

Nice, I'll remove them all at work.

I tried here at home (moved everything out of the plugins folder), but pdfs no longer load in the browser and that will bring howls from my girlfriend.

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Dave — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 03:10:00 GMT

Even doing the plugin fix isn't good enough. It is still waaayyy tooo slooowwww.
This is the best way to speed up Acrobat 6.0.
Uninstall it! Try to find a version of Acrobat 5.0. You don't need all the crap they added in 6.0 anyway.

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Turker Keskinpala — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 03:13:00 GMT

I did not know about this hidden feature, but I had discovered a utility that speeds up Acrobat startup by disabling some of the plugins. You can find the link to download at http://turkerkeskinpala.com/blog/index.php?p=17.

Thanks for this tip though...

Turker

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

kizzer — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 03:16:00 GMT

I'd leave updater.api & weblink.api in order to get updates (otherwise missing from menu).

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Abhishek — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 04:32:00 GMT

I tried removing some of the plugins and found that reader starting throwing errors at startup.

After this, I repaired my instalation and disabled the startup screen. This drastically improved the startup time.

regards,
Abhishek.

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Steve Culshaw — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 07:52:00 GMT

Tim,

something I picked up that seems to work, hold down the Shift key before you click on the PDF

Cheers,
Steve C.

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

null — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 08:18:00 GMT

Speeds load time but.... I've been wondering why no one has written a thin PDF viewer. Perhaps it has been done and I'm looking in the wrong places.

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Mac — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:00:00 GMT

Hi

You might try this

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

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Thierry Kormann — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 09:30:00 GMT

Thanks! it works like a charm.

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Uwe Keim — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:18:00 GMT

This was the best link that helped me: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Mark — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 11:20:00 GMT

Just FYI, there's a program that does this for you (not that it's hard to do for most of us...). It's called Adobe Reader SpeedUp:
http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Mike Hawes — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:25:00 GMT

Wow! Thank you!

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Johnny Sutherland — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:33:00 GMT

Hi Tim

I was also getting brassed off by all the plug-ins in Acrobat Reader. I have version 5 and it also did the trick for it as well. Thanks for the tip.

Johnny

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Merak — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 12:45:00 GMT

You star !! Thanks.
(That delay annoyed me as well!)

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Franz P. — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:14:00 GMT

Load acrobat speedup, a small freeware app that dose this stuff for you: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/index.php

re: Speeding up Adobe Acrobat Startup

Tobias — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:13:00 GMT

Thanx!
I open the reader about 10 times each day and
it is about 10 seconds faster.
Our company has about 50 developer, which
work more than 200 days each year.
10x10x200x50 == 34 days per 8 hours.

helenius »

TrackBack — Thu, 25 Nov 2004 17:34:00 GMT

helenius »

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