Posted by Ioannis on 06/26/06 20:38

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,
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Ioannis

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