Adobe Reader-is it me or is the new version REALLY SLOW?

[Kev Williams]

Hey, I know I shouldn't gripe at free stuff -- and typically I like the upgrades, never had a problem... but this last version, it takes like 10 seconds for a simple page to finish loading up. I don't HAVE 10 seconds to wait for every PDF I open to come up! I probably have to open 25 or more PDF's a day... Until lately the graphics were nearly instant. Just started this nonsense with the last upgrade. I would blame my computer since it's been acting up, but every computer I use with the new Reader does the same thing... Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this?

[Jack Lemley]

I am using 11.0.05 and had it check for updates but there are none available. Loaded a couple of PDFs and they pop right up with no delay.

Jack

[paul cottingham]

Try an open source alternative.
Sumatra pdf or Foxit for example.

[Steve Wurster]

I use Foxit by default unless I'm dealing with a PDF that is either non-standard or simply doesn't work correctly in Foxit. This typically only happens with form-based PDFs. Printing tends to take much longer when using Foxit vs. Adobe Reader, but I don't print a lot of PDFs.

Regardless of which reader you use, be sure to go into the options and disable Javascript. That is a security nightmare, especially in Adobe. I also disable any options related to connecting to the Internet. It's a PDF reader; it shouldn't be connecting to the Internet every time you open a file.

[Dan Hintz]

Unless you need them, moving the plug-ins for disabled people to another directory (or just deleting them) really speeds things up. Adobe comes with so much stuff by default it spends a bunch of time loading it up on every launch. You could also enable the quicklauncher, but I'm not a fan of having memory resident programs floating around because of the work I do.

[Myk Rian]

Foxit reader isn't constantly looking for, and doing updates.
Adobe is an update animal.

[mike holden]

To get back to your original question, I am running 11.0.5 and find it runs quite quickly on windows 7.
I have tried other .pdf readers, but always come back to the original. The inconsistencies and incompatibilities are more annoying to me than the constant updates from adobe.
YMMV
Mike

[glenn bradley]

No problems here with the latest on Windows 7.

[Kev Williams]

thanks for the suggestions-- I've never really messed with "preferences".. turned off Javascript, and the dumb thing was the sign/comment/whatever window was always open, I shut that and now it acts like the old days--