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Originally Posted by Alexander Turcic
So we were promised that Adobe Reader 9 would load faster than previous versions -- but, let's be honest, performance and memory usage still pales compared to alternative PDF viewers like Foxit Reader. Along comes Shark007, who created a bloat-free version of the software by stripping it down to what's essential for reading most PDF documents. |
It's been possible to do stuff like that for a long time.
A good deal of the time required to load Adobe Reader came in the "Loading APIs" stage, where it loaded and initialized a plethora of plugins. Going into the Plugins directory and removing the ones you didn't use sped things up a treat.
Adobe 9 has a Plugins Directory, and an Optional directory, created below \Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader. Adobe suggests plugins you don't use be moved to the Optional directory. If youi right click on the plugin, select Properties, and Version, you'll see a Description line that specifies the purpose of the plugin.
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