Lean and Mean: Acrobat Reader | June 17, 2004
This little hack has been out there for a while now, but I thought I'd post it here just to keep a note. Adobe Acrobat Reader - and especially version 6 - takes an enormous amount of time to load. You can trim the startup time down to a couple of seconds by simply not having all the superfluous plug-ins (most of them are useless anyway) loaded at startup. To achieve this, simply move everything except EWH32.api, EScript.api, weblink.api and search.api in the .\plug_ins directory to the .\Optional directory. Enjoy!
Posted at 01:55 PM CET