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Duncan McAlynn Microsoft System Center

Resourcefulness is the great divider between excellence and mediocrity.

Make Adobe Acrobat Reader Load Instantly!

Here's a tip a community member shared to make Adobe Acrobat Reader open up INSTANTLY!

Look in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader

Create a new folder called "Optional" if it does not already exist, but it probably already does....

Go to: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\plug_ins

Move/drag the plug_ins folder into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\Optional

Done. If Adobe Reader really needs a plug-in it will find it by itself in the Optional folder without issue. But it no longer will take forever loading every plug-in by default, saving an amazing amount of time.

Thanks to Timothy O'Brennen for this tip!

Posted: Nov 24 2004, 03:46 PM by lduncan | with 2 comment(s)

Comments

lduncan said:

Works like a charm untill you try to open a pdf from IE....
At least with localized (Danish) version.
# December 9, 2004 9:25 AM

lduncan said:

Same with the English version I'm afraid... it freezes up. It's mentioned a lot in software repackaging circles I frequent that there are a _few_ plugins that you generally want to keep...

The best tip I've found is at http://www.microsystems.com/tipstricksdisplay.php?tipNo=007 (although their source was originally a less clearly-written post at http://www.planetpdf.com/forumarchive/106204.asp).

~eric
# December 10, 2004 2:34 PM
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