Here's a tip to make Adobe Acrobat Reader load WAY faster than it normally does. Stolen directly from this /. post.
"Go to your Acrobat\Reader folder and take everything from the "plug_ins" folder and move it into "Optional" except the following: Search.api, Search5.api, IA32.api, EWH32.api, EScript.api. Printing and search will still work, and it will load 75% faster. This is on Reader 6.0."
Also, in one of the replies, it lists a program which basically does the same thing.
(The may not seem post-worthy, but I've decide to relax idea of post-worthy so I actually have stuff to post. This is useful, neat, and I would want to know about it, if I didn't know already. Those criteria are enough for me.)
Posted by ramk at May 6, 2004 10:04 PMGood tip, but that goes against the idea that we need bitter to go along the sweet so that we can appreciate the sweet that much more.
If my acrobat reader opens really fast then I won't be nearly as ecstatic when the piece of crap finally opens that long document that I must painstakingly scroll through to find what I want.
Posted by: Andrew at May 6, 2004 10:16 PMThis is definitely WAY post worthy. If you're a grad student trying to do a lit review, acrobat 6.0 can drive you, well, batty as you wait for it to do its morning shit while loading. Especially when you have 10 other files you need to browse after this one, and you accidently close acrobat so it has to reload AGAIN. And then it bugs you for updates. I suppose thats why they have the silly TSR systray icon thingy. But we all know excessive system tray icons are sucky.
Posted by: jay-zee at May 9, 2004 09:47 AMNice one! thanx for sharing the info
Posted by: Jio at August 29, 2004 08:57 PM