For all of you that have asked, here’s a link on how you make Adobe’s Reader 7.0 load faster:
Jonathan Hardwick: How to make Adobe Reader 7.0 load faster
He’s a done an excellent job of explaining the process, but I’ll summarize for you here.
Adobe Reader 7.0 Optimizer
- Edit –> Preferences
- General: Disable “Automatically save document changes”
- Internet: Disable everything
- Page Display: Enable “CoolType”
- Search: Disable “Enable fast find”
- Startup: Disable “Show messages and automatically update” (probably your biggest speed problem)
- View –> Toolbars
- Disable “Rotate View”
- Disable “Search the internet”
- You may also enable the buttons in “Show button labels” unless you already know what they mean
- Move all the .api files from Acrobat’s plugins folder to another folder (possible plugins_disabled), except for AcroForm.api and EScript.api. If you’re partial to searching PDF’s, you will also want to leave Search.api in its place.
- Remove the Startup utility, Adobe Reader Speed Launch