Like alot of other software Acrobat installs alot of plugins wich you are probaly, almost or certain not going to use! Whenever I install Adobe’s Acrobat Reader I always uninstall the pointless plugins, to speed up the startup process wich is normally slow.Now that "heavy-load" Adobe Reader 7.0 is out , I thought it was time to show the rest of the world how to cut the crap.
1. In Edit-Preferences, take the following steps:
* General tab: turn off “Automatically save document changes” * Internet tab: turn off all three checkboxes * Page Display tab: turn on “CoolType” * Search tab: turn off “Enable fast find” * Startup tab: turn off “Show messages and automatically update”
2. In View-Toolbars; turn off “Rotate view” and “Search the internet”. Under “Show button labels”, turn them all on so you can see what each icon means.
3. Load Windows Explorer and do the following:
* Navigate to C:Program FilesAdobeAcrobat 7.0Reader * Right-click to create a new subdirectory, and call it plugins_uninstalled * Move all the .api files from the plug_ins subdirectory to your new plugins_uninstalled subdirectory, except for: AcroForm.api (for form-filling), Escript.api (dependency of AcroForm.api), search.api and search5.api (search functionality).
Note: If you want to know what each plugun actualy does just launch Acrobat Reader, and go to Help-About Adobe Plugins to learn what each plug-in does and what its dependencies are.
4. Final step; go to Start-Run -> All Programs -> Startup, and right-click and delete the “Adobe Reader Speed Launch” link that Adobe silently added to your startup process.
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