Adobe Acrobat Reader is the most common reader being used to read PDF documents. Adobe Acrobat reader is a feature rich application that usages many plugins to support various types of PDF documents and hence it takes more part of system resources during start up. Since it uses RAM (Random Access Memory) resources during start up and also during navigation through PDF file, the computer starts to respond slowly. To get rid of this problem, we can perform a small tweak to speed up Acrobat reader.
Adobe uses plugins during PDF reader start up to support advanced features and various file formats. However, most PDF ebooks come in normal PDF format so that common users can read them. Hence, we can disable the plugins to make Acrobat reader faster. Follow below steps :
- Navigate to Adobe PDF installation folder
- Open the Plugins folder >> select all plugins
- Select all plugins, and move them to elsewhere (if you need a backup)
- You are done.
e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0
Now since the plugins folder is empty, Adobe PDF reader will find no plugins to load during start up and as the result it will load up faster. It will not only act faster during start up, but also during opening different files and scrolling through PDF files.
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Nice tip…I always wondered why Reader took forever to start up sometimes (especially if your I/O subsystem is slow).
Nice tip…. but if you do that then we will not be able to upon PDF inside any browser, i.e. while browsing if you need to open a pdf then you would be required to download the pdf on desktop or somewhere and then open it …
@ Nitin : I don’t agree as the web browsers use separate plugins to support PDF documents.I believe that they don’t have anything to do with the PDF plugins folders. Not very sure though.
Not 100% sure … but it happened to me, that’s why shared …