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 :
1. Navigate to Adobe PDF installation folder
e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0
2. Open the Plugins folder **** select all plugins
3. Select all plugins, and move them to elsewhere (if you need a backup)
4. You are done.
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.
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 :
1. Navigate to Adobe PDF installation folder
e.g. C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 8.0
2. Open the Plugins folder **** select all plugins
3. Select all plugins, and move them to elsewhere (if you need a backup)
4. You are done.
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.