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I’ve come across lots of people who complain about the time required to start-up Adobe Reader. As a productivity junkie, I advice them to try out Foxit PDF Reader, but if you are someone who truly loves Adobe Reader, then you should check out Adobe Reader SpeedUp.
It’s a free utility which helps decrease the amount of time consumed by Adobe Reader to start up. It works by scanning the version of your Adobe Reader (works from version 3.0 to 8.0) and disabling plugins which otherwise consume lot of time to load.
You’ll be giving four different options of speeding up. And the best part is that the utility also lets you to roll-back to the original configuration. I tried tweaking using the turbo mode and the results were pretty impressive. I was able to fire-up Adobe Reader within matter of seconds.
Download Adobe Reader SpeedUp 1.36 | Developer’s site
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wrote, on August 21st, 2007
Sounds good but is it really worth the effort? Probably for prople who work a lot with PDF documents. Its just the first instance of Adobe reader that takes time. The following instances load pretty quickly.
wrote, on August 22nd, 2007
Great find. I can’t stand waiting for Adobe to load anytime I want to view a PDF. What I can’t understand though is why Adobe doesn’t try to remedy the problem by integrating their own version of this program within Adobe to begin with?
wrote, on August 22nd, 2007
there is another software called Adobe Reader Speedup which does the same thing..
see this page for more : http://dailyapps.net/2007/08/1.....now-about/
wrote, on August 22nd, 2007
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wrote, on August 22nd, 2007
There’s also SumatraPDF reader which is a small open-source PDF reader for Windows platforms and is lightweight as well.
You can get it from: http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/
wrote, on August 22nd, 2007
Yes ive been using foxit PDF for past 2 yrs. its fast. enuf for most need . except whn ur pdf contains flash contents. foxit dosent support flash contents
wrote, on August 23rd, 2007
Thanks for this tip. I’m working on it;)
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