Speed Up Acrobat Reader Loading

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Jul 19 2005, 07:04 AM

hi friends,

Do u get irritated when acrobat reader takes 5/10 seconds to load when you want to open a pdf document. There is a way to speed up the loading.

1. Go to the installation folder of acrobat reader
(C:\program files\adobe\acrobat\reader\.. whatever)
2. Move all the files and folders from the "plugins" directory to the "Optional" directory. (I repeat.. cut and paste the files NOT copy & paste).
Also make sure that acrobat reader is not open else it will lock the files and not allow you to move the files).
Now your acrobat reader will load very fast and almost as good as notepad..

Happy Reading,
Cheers.

rvalkass

Jul 19 2005, 05:52 PM

Won't doing this make all the plug-ins fail to work? Some of the file names look quite important.

Saint_Michael

Jul 19 2005, 06:13 PM

hmmm that would have helped me like 5 years ago,, but i rarely go to sites that have pdf files in them.

1100 posts WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

snlildude87

Jul 19 2005, 07:26 PM

QUOTE(Saint_Michael @ Jul 19 2005, 03:13 PM)

hmmm that would have helped me like 5 years ago,, but i rarely go to sites that have pdf files in them.
1100 posts WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Do you use Firefox? Firefox had this thing where it crashed everytime you clicked on a pdf link. That problem is fixed now.

And I got 1100 posts a long time ago, too.

Saint_Michael

Jul 19 2005, 09:22 PM

no kidding well no i never notice site firefox hates me

badinfluence

Jul 19 2005, 10:49 PM

woop, is this real? i wiil sure test it out..

sachavdk

Jul 20 2005, 12:12 PM

I did it and it actually worked.
It takes now +/- 3 secs

Very cool

Joer

Jul 20 2005, 02:55 PM

WOW!!!

This is a great tip. I just did it last night and it works. Now I am wondering if I will eventually miss any functionality of Acrobat Reader. Can anyone say what these plugins are for? And if it is possible to activate them from inside the interface, (I mean without moving the files back into their original folder,) just in case I need one of them?

Thanks a lot

Joe

sonyguy

Jul 22 2005, 02:32 PM

WOW, this is a really great tip! PDF files used to take quite a long time to load, it's really quick now!

Thanks a lot mate!

strawberrie

Jul 22 2005, 03:19 PM

Meep... this tip sounds great, but the only problem is... I don't have an 'Optional' directory in my Adobe Acrobat folder! >_< I have a 'plug_ins' folder though =__=;;

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bads

Feb 21 2007, 03:47 AM

Insted of adobe acrobat, why dont you use foxit reader... Its 1000 times better and load in one second and worked seemlessly.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

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Feb 8 2007, 11:43 AM

WooooooooW, thank you very much friend, i will try this immediately !!

matak

Feb 8 2007, 11:30 AM

i suggest using Foxit Reader instead of Adobe Acrobat. Loading time of Foxit is 0.0001 sec

michaelper22

Feb 8 2007, 01:14 AM

QUOTE(quakesand @ Feb 7 2007, 08:06 PM)

wow, this is really great!
I don't even see the splash screen!
Thanks, great tutorial.....

Just remeber, like I mentioned before, that if you open an Acrobat file that requires some plugin to be loaded, Acrobat Reader will tell you that it can't open the file:

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Edit: Moving the plugin files does not make them load only if needed, it just makes Reader not load them at all. Useful tip if you don't use the functions of plugins, like ebooks.

quakesand

Feb 8 2007, 01:06 AM

wow, this is really great!
I don't even see the splash screen!
Thanks, great tutorial.....

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