Speeding up Acrobat Reader

Please remember that you don't get access to those plugin's fuctionalities if they are not loaded....
 
Yep. I did forget to mention that. However, my needs with Acrobat are rather trivial, and that inquirer "fix" does the trick for me.
 
Well, I hate to break it to everyone here, but doing this trick with the Plug-Ins folder is hardly anything new. In fact, it's a more-than-a-decade-old trick for troubleshooting Photoshop.

Make a folder named "Disabled Plug-Ins" and copy certain plug-ins... blah blah blah...
 
Without knowing this though, whose to know? I generally associate pluggins as something that I add to a program, not something that is added by default. It would have been nice if Adobe allowed you to choose the pluggins at install (maybe they do, and maybe I missed it or wasn't grasping what they were offering?).

Also, I counted 21 xxxx.api files in the pluggin folder. It appears that several of them have dependencies, as removing them on an individual basis may end up with Acrobat crashing -- definitely not conducive for the end user to tailor Acrobat to their liking. In fact, without specific knowledge of what api's can be removed without causing a crash, it is easy for the end user to assume that these are required by the program to function properly.
 
Instead of mucking around removing (and re-adding) plugins for Acrobat reader why not just use the basic version as opposed to the full version of reader. The basic versions opens up in <5secs on an old P2-400 with 4Gb drive, not to bad. I admit you are still stuffed if you are using the full Acrobat program, but that is what insanely fast computers are for...wasting CPU cycles on processing badly written software :wink:
 
There's a basic version!?

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