April 18, 2005
Acrobat …useful?
Ooh ooh, found a cool trick. You know when you try to load a pdf file and it takes 3 hours? Adobe Acrobat reader takes forever to load, crashes, and tries to update every 5 seconds. BUT! there is at least a solution to the slow startups and frequent crashes. I tried this out and it starts up in half a second now.
Open windows explorer and go to the folder where acrobat is installed. It’s usually something like C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat 6.0\Acrobat. You should see a lot of folders and files in here. Find the folder named plug_ins and rename it plug_ins_old or plug_ins_stupid or anything else so that Acrobat won’t use it. Now make a new folder named plug_ins. Copy the files EWH32.api, printme.api, and Search.api from the old folder to the new folder. There, now you’ve tricked Acrobat into using the new folder and all the useless plugins will be disabled because it can’t find them any more. Hooray!
