Windows 10: Adobe Reader 11 on Win 10 64bit - slow to open?

I'm running a more than decent system here, but have recently noticed that PDFs are very slow to open on first cold boot.

If I shut it down and restart (rather than restart as it takes longer), PDFs seem to open as expected.

I think I can say the same with Chrome and IE11 - slow to open.

Is there a known fix?

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Make Adobe Acrobat Default PDF reader not Reader X

The proposed solution does not work. I have same difficulty with Adobe v6 and Adobe Reader DC and Reader 11.

Selecting the default app to Adobe 6 on my Win 10 PC using the proposed selection method simply has no effect. It appears to have been selected as the icon changes but files still open in Reader DC. This is very annoying.

The only solution I have found is to uninstall Adobe Reader DC. This is OK but some Adobe documents will not open in the older version of Adobe.

Adobe Reader DC does not allow you to deselect it as the preffered app.

Has anyone cracked this problem?

 

Can't delete .PDF's in Windows 10

I'll confirm the problem of deleting a .pdf while it is being previewed in File Explorer
doesn't exist with Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. And two instances of it do show up in Task Manager, as someone said. (But I don't know whether I ever had the problem before.) This machine is Win 10, v.1607, build 14393.447.

 

Hi there

Why bother with Bloatware from Adobe any more.

even if you don't use or don't like Edge as a regular browser it can read PDF's for you.

In the dim and distant past Adobe reader was the standard - now it's junk / bloatware / adware / crapware and any other-ware you want to call it.

If you really HAVE to have a separate application try foxit, Personally Edge works just fine --and I'm not a fan of EDGE for normal browsing either.

Foxit website is doing what a lot are these days HIDING or obscuring the FREE version - but you can still get it from :

Foxit Reader - Secure PDF Reader | Foxit Software

Personally I'd just use EDGE these days if you don't need to edit pdf's.

Cheers
jimbo

 

Thanks jimbo for your suggestion.

However, I think there's more to it as it almost always runs slow until I boot up a second time.

I think there's an underlying issue?

 

Hi there
@TenneR

Adobe reader actually starts a few background services - IMO you'd be 100% better off simply uninstalling it and use alternatives.

Adobe IMO has lost the plot with almost all their software --used to be a BIG photoshop fan - now find anything I want to do I can do with GIMP (Free) and you don't even need ADOBE flash for playing web content any more-- modern browsers including Firefox and IE11 can use HTML5 instead.

Time to JUNK anything from Adobe these days.

For example say you want to watch things from BBC

BBC iPlayer Help - What is the HTML 5 Beta Trial?

Cheers
jimbo

 

Junked it long time ago along with Norton stuff. Too many free and better alternatives. Even separate PDF reader is not needed any more.

 

Thanks both for your insights. I'll see how it goes.

Maybe it will be time ti ditch adobe

 

If you need a reader only, there's no need for 3rd party programs, Edge is quite capable of that. If you need to make a PDF you can do it from any text/graphic program and "Print to PDF" which is one of the basic printer drivers. Instead of printing on a printer it makes a .pdf file.

 

Hi there

especially @CountMike;

Shows actually how good the PDF printer from Ms is .

- I've got a couple of Opera tickets from Royal Opera House Covent Garden (London) -- not known usually for its innovation in I.T

-- You simply use Print ticket box from their website from which the Ms Pdf printer will create a PDF file and then using Edge just Print it to your printer (or even better - some of these will print to PHONE app with a bar code so when you go to the gig you don't even need the printed ticket !!.

When you arrive at the gig they just scan the phone with a bar code scanner -- OK Royal Opera House hasn't yet quite got that bit working but it will come.

When Trains are actually working or Not on strike in UK I always get mobile e-tickets (m-tickets I think they call them) and it's so much better

Virgin Trains, Cross country and Hull Trains (UK train companies) seem to have this whole process working just fine -- never a need to carry around a load of paper any more -- just wish the FARES were a bit cheaper without having to book about 10 YEARS !! in advance -- but that's for UK tax payers to sort out.

cheers
jimbo

 

Haven't had chance for something like that but can do fine with Office although it can also save as PDF. Results are same.

 

Use Sumatra PDF. It's extremely lightweight, secure, free and lightning fast.

Download Sumatra PDF - a free reader

 

Sumatra has worked very well for me over the past 5-6 years.