Notice how with every release it takes longer and longer for Adobe Acrobat to load? Turns out there’s a simple solution to this problem on windows – check out this blog entry for details, but the gist of it is, go to your acrobat folder, and move all the plugins from the plugins folder to the optional folder. This radically decreased the launch time (basically to instantaneous) and memory footprint of reader for me, and I’ve yet to have trouble reading any pdf’s after I did it.

On the mac I note if you get info on acrobat there is a plugins section to the preferences pane where you can turn off the plugins, but this led to a host of error messages when I launched acrobat. It still opened pdf’s with no trouble, but it’s annoying dealing with the error messages. On the mac you’re better off with preview.app anyway so I didn’t dwell on the issue.