So a day or two after I mentioned the slow bloat that is acrobat reader on windows, I notice this post over on downloadsquad.com, which links to this acrobat speedup utility. All this tool is actually doing is letting you control which plugins Acrobat loads when it launches, which is the source of most of its speed issues (cause, you know, I really don’t need a 3d renderer in my acrobat client, thanks!) and anyone with even a modicum of technical skill can do this for themselves by simply moving the plugins around in the filesystem, but if you want a tool to manage this or need something like this for your significant other/tech clueless friend/whatever, it works as advertised.