Re: Acrobat.exe stays loaded after leaving .pdf pages

Adrienne Boswell wrote:
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Ioannis" <morpheus@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
writing in 1151354289.837293@athnrd02:">news:1151354289.837293@athnrd02:

I am using Windows XP Home edition SP1 fully patched. Everytime I
click on a .pdf link, IE 6 loads the page correctly, (probably by
using the Acrobat Reader plugin) and displays fine. But when I quit
the .pdf file, either as a result of clicking on a new link or moving
onto a different web location, looking at TaskManager, a process
"Acrobat.exe", continues being loaded into memory, occupying around 12
Megabytes, subsequently slowing my system down.

If I shut it down manually from TaskManager, all is ok. Question is,
is there a way to have this process (Acrobat.exe) unload automatically
whenever I move away from a .pdf page or is it some sort of XP glitch
that's unavoidable to always have it loaded automatically on every
visit to a .pdf link?

Many thanks in advance,

I don't like Adobe, and I almost never open something in a browser window. I have my browsers configured to download and then I view it later, at my convenience.

Adobe also has a nasty habit, as does RealPlayer and a few others, of always wanting to load itself on startup. I look at PDF's less than once every three months, why do I need something sitting in memory?

So does MS Office and a host of many other programs. A windows user should come accustomed to deleting shortcuts in the 'Startup' folder. Also 'msconfig' is your friend (if you do not feel comfortable doing a little registry editing)...

As to RealPlayer and their ilk, they also have a nasty habit of becoming your *default* media player even if you try to configure them not to. I use the freeware RealAlternative and QuicktimeAlternative plugins, get the codec without the crap!


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