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March 06, 2004

Making Acrobat Reader 6 Fast!

By removing most of the plugins in the adobe acrobat folder, you can make Acrobat Start up significantly faster on windows. Using these instructions, it seams at least 3 times faster:

From the Start->Run windows menu, Open the "x:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader" folder, where x is the right drive letter.
Find the plug_ins folder and rename it plug_ins_disabled
Create a new folder named plug_ins
Copy the following files from "plug_ins_disabled" to "plug_ins": EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api

Check out the article for some more info on the plugins, those three plugins seam to cover 99% of most peoples acrobat usage.

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On 03/06/2004 at 4:53:31 PM MST david wrote:

thanks! i'm trying the same instructions on my installation of acrobat 6 pro. so far so good. i'll enable advanced feature plugins as needed.

On 03/07/2004 at 6:16:51 AM MST Mike wrote:

Your brilliant Peter. Thanks for the tip.

On 03/07/2004 at 9:59:23 PM MST steve wrote:

This is beautiful - i've been griping about this for a long time!

On 03/08/2004 at 12:20:25 PM MST Marco Gonçalves wrote:

Excellent tip! It's almost as fast to load as version 5.

On 04/11/2004 at 6:45:08 PM MDT David wrote:

Much faster. However, updates doesn't work even when I copied updater.api back. But acrord32 exited memory which it hadn't been doing!!!

On 07/08/2004 at 2:17:42 PM MDT rahul wrote:

This is superb.Thanks for that Peter.Please give some more tips for making other windows programs faster.

On 08/10/2004 at 4:58:24 AM MDT Wilfredo Pareto wrote:

Thank you. Simple, reversible and effective. Great idea!

On 08/24/2004 at 8:52:43 PM MDT Bob Clown wrote:

Truely excellent suggestion - bravo! Also, you could disable the splash screen under Edit->Preferences->Startup->Display Splash Screen.

On 10/10/2004 at 1:50:51 PM MDT Raffaele wrote:

very good... i suggest, as Bob Clown, do disable the splash screen too...

On 08/18/2005 at 12:15:36 PM MDT John Brien wrote:

Your instructions work perfectly!

I'm now using Acrobat 7 and I hope you have a fix that will make acrobat exit memory when I stop reading pdf's in my browser. There is no "printme.api" in the Plug_ins directory. Is there an equivilent file?

On 01/16/2006 at 2:25:48 PM MST Alex wrote:

Great tip, I use it in version 6 and works fine, but just for an update, when tried this an the new acrobat reader version (7.0.5) I get an error msg: "Error while loading plugin 'EWH32.api'. plugin could not be loaded" Looks like this tip is no longer useful in ver 7.x Maybe you can find a work around, thnak you!!