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Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, June 25, 2004

Helpful utility of the day

Adobe Reader Speed-Up is a neat little utility that manages Acrobat Reader plugins. Why? Because the default set of plugins shipped with the Reader are far more than most users will ever need, and even on a fast new machine, loading the Reader with the default set can be deathly slow. Many "tips" sites recommend manually copying all but the three required plugins to an "Optional" subdirectory. This utility does it all for you.
An extra tip from the discussion site I linked above:
Under "Updates"
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"Check for Updates": "Manually"
"Show Auto-Update confirmation dialog": OFF
"Display notification dialog at startup": OFF


Under "Internet"
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"Allow fast web view": OFF
"Allow speculative downloading in the background": OFF.

and notched "Connection Speed" up to the approximate speed of my DSL line from 56k. Not that Acrobat should need to know my connection speed, or that I have any idea what it does with that information.
Disabling unnecessary plugins and making the settings changes described here have made a noticible improvement in Acrobat loading speeds.
|| Andrew, 11:09 AM || ||

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