Adobe Reader is really slow when it starts. Did you ever try to view a pdf document that was available on the web ? The reader tends to load very slowly although the document itself might be only a few hundred kilobytes. This is bothering me and I suppose it´s bothing a lot of people who are using the Adobe Reader to view pdf files.
The reason why it is loading so slow is simple. Adobe Reader is loading plugins when it starts and this increases load times tremendously. Most people don´t need all of the plugins, the trick to speed up loading times of the Adobe Reader would be to remove unused plugins. To do this browse to your plug_ins directory of your Adobe installation and move plugins into a newly created folder called optional.
The default directory for Adobe Reader 7 would be for instance C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 7.0\Reader\plug_ins
Make sure you remove all plugins except the following ones: EWH32.api, print*.api, and Search*.api
Load a pdf afterwards and see how fast it loads and check if you miss a feature. If you do try to find out which plugin is needed for the feature and move it into the plug_ins folder again.
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