Get Acrobat Reader to open up faster

Get Acrobat Reader to open up faster – 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.

Comments

• Anonymous
  January 01, 2003
  This tip just gave me back about 15-30 seconds of each work day. Thanks to John for the tip. The referenced "Optional" folder is nearly empty by default, with only a readme.txt that declares: Put unused plug-ins in the optional...
• Anonymous
  September 08, 2004
  Hi John,
  
  Thats awesome!!!
  
  I almost reverted to an earlier version of Acrobat Reader because it was such a dog to start up.
  
  Cheers
• Anonymous
  September 08, 2004
  Good tip, worked a treat
  Phil.
• Anonymous
  September 08, 2004
  You could also use "PDF SpeedUp" and let the tool do all the work (http://www.acropdf.com/pdfsu.exe).
• Anonymous
  September 08, 2004
  Many Thanks,
  
  I use Acrobat 10 times a day and it was really frustating waiting for it too start.
  nice tip
  
  many thanks
  
  Deepesh
• Anonymous
  September 09, 2004
  Top banana - good effort.
• Anonymous
  September 13, 2004
  Ian,
  
  I haven't heard of that problem with Acrobat. If you put the files back and test again, it should help you troubleshoot the issue.
  
  Thanks,
  John
• Anonymous
  September 18, 2004
  What about the 6.0 Pro version? It doesn't store things the same way.