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Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 01/31/56 11:51
Gazing into my crystal ball I observed "Ioannis" <morpheus@olympus.mons>
writing in 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?
Go over to Mike Lin's page <http://www.mlin.net/StartupMonitor.shtml> and
get Startup Monitor, and some of the other goodies. I cannot say enough
good things about StartUp Monitor. It prevents all sorts of nastys from
starting up, especially those that you never knew where doing that in the
first place.
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Adrienne Boswell at Home
Arbpen Web Site Design Services
http://www.cavalcade-of-coding.info
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