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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: bluehz on Jul 16, '03 12:31:37PM

Some of those plugins are genuinely useful. I must admit - I have Acro 6 but prefer Acro 5 because Acro 6 Reader is so dog slow. So I tried this hint - going through the list and weeding out a few... some I have no idea what they are. Here's what I left enabled:

PictureTasks
AcroForm.acroplugin
Reflow.acroplugin
ImageViewer.acroplugin
SaveAsRTF.acroplugin
PDDom.acroplugin
Multimedia.acroplugin
Search.acroplugin
WebLink.acroplugin

Launched Acro 6 Reader, sure enough it launched a lot faster, then took a nose dive and crashed out - some error about AcroForms not loading properly.

Is there some sort of reference to what each of these plugins do so I might make a more educated decision on what to enable/disable?



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: MtnBiker on Jul 16, '03 02:20:57PM

Look under AdobeReader>About Adobe Plug-ins and it tells you what other plug-ins are needed to support that plug in. The Dependencies tells you what is required to work and what is required for full funtionality. A pain having to edit the Plug-ins in Get Info and then check what's needed in About…

Thanks for the hint.

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Hermosa Beach, CA USA



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: bluehz on Jul 16, '03 05:40:58PM

Thx MtnBiker - I never even knew that was there. What an excellent resource - just what I was looking for. I managed to turn all these off:

MakeAccessible.acroplugin
PictureTasks
PrintMe.acroplugin
SendMail.acroplugin
SOAP.acroplugin
Updater.acroplugin

and got a nice little speed boost.



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Disable plugins to improve Adobe Reader 6 launch speed
Authored by: garyvand on Sep 04, '03 04:35:46PM

Any idea how to disable plug-ins on a Windows box?
I can't find the equivalent of Get Info.



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