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    Vikram A Punathambekar
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    I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


    http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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      I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


      http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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      Priyank Bolia
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      The startup time of V7 is super, its very fast and also have some minor bugs, but it doesn't stop you from trying that. http://www.priyank.in/

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        The startup time of V7 is super, its very fast and also have some minor bugs, but it doesn't stop you from trying that. http://www.priyank.in/

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        MKlucher
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        Sadly I think it's at the cost of Memory, there is this "Adobe Reader Speed Lauch" in my Startup folder :( Not a fan of software doing that....

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          I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


          http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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          code frog 0
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          I purchased some eBooks from Amazon that require activation of Adobe. About 3 months ago I tried to open them with Adobe 7 and it never worked no matter what I did. I finally called Adobe. They made me remove 7 and go back to 6. I don't know if they fixed that problem or not but you should at least know it *has* been a problem for version 7. I've got it running on a dual processor 3.2 gig machine with 2 gigs of memory and while it opens faster than on my laptop a 2.5 gig mobile with 2 gigs of memory it's still slower than I'd prefer. I think my full version of Photoshop CS loads faster.:doh: Go figure... It's all slow. PDF's drive me nuts. Printing them is even worse. - Rex

          I know you can't become if you only say what you would have done and you'll miss a million miles of fun." - Len Work hard, play hard. Don't forget who you are and don't forget where you're from. Do all these things well and you won't have to wonder where you are going.

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          • V Vikram A Punathambekar

            I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


            http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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            Roger Wright
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            I keep trying to use ARv7, but the installer insists on adding Yahoo Search to my desktop - I refuse to install it. At work I have v7, and it is, indeed, much faster to load and more versatile. I'd adopt it at home in a heartbeat if I could just decouple it from the Yahoo trash. Happy Birthday, BTW....:-D "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

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              Sadly I think it's at the cost of Memory, there is this "Adobe Reader Speed Lauch" in my Startup folder :( Not a fan of software doing that....

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              Priyank Bolia
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              Ya, but then also, I think its time more important than memory usage, I have 1 GB of RAM and I think v7 is fast as I have a lot of ebooks in PDF format, v7 helps me to quickly view the books. http://www.priyank.in/

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                I keep trying to use ARv7, but the installer insists on adding Yahoo Search to my desktop - I refuse to install it. At work I have v7, and it is, indeed, much faster to load and more versatile. I'd adopt it at home in a heartbeat if I could just decouple it from the Yahoo trash. Happy Birthday, BTW....:-D "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

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                Steve Mayfield
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                You mush have left the checkboxes checked for Adobe Yahoo! Toolbar and Adobe Photoshop® Album 2.0 Starter Edition when you downloaded the installer. I've installed AR7 on at least a dozen machines at home and work without it requiring the Yahoo Toolbar to be installed. Try redownloading the installer. Steve

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                • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                  I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


                  http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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                  mango_lier
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                  Try "Adobe Reader SpeedUp" here http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/misc/[^]

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                  • V Vikram A Punathambekar

                    I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


                    http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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                    Ted Ferenc
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                    Have you tried FoxitReader, freeware? http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php It seems to read all the PDFs I have thrown at it, it is fast, < 1MB download, no installation required it is just a single EXE file.


                    "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France

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                    • P Priyank Bolia

                      The startup time of V7 is super, its very fast and also have some minor bugs, but it doesn't stop you from trying that. http://www.priyank.in/

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                      Vikram A Punathambekar
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                      But my bandwidth does. :sigh: Of course, if it's worth d/ling as you guys recommend, I'll do it. :) Cheers, Vikram.


                      http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "It's like hitting water with your fist. There's all sorts of motion and noise at impact, and no impression left whatsoever shortly thereafter." - gantww.

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                        I keep trying to use ARv7, but the installer insists on adding Yahoo Search to my desktop - I refuse to install it. At work I have v7, and it is, indeed, much faster to load and more versatile. I'd adopt it at home in a heartbeat if I could just decouple it from the Yahoo trash. Happy Birthday, BTW....:-D "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

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                        Vikram A Punathambekar
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                        Thanks for the wishes, Rog! :) Cheers, Vikram.


                        http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "It's like hitting water with your fist. There's all sorts of motion and noise at impact, and no impression left whatsoever shortly thereafter." - gantww.

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                          You mush have left the checkboxes checked for Adobe Yahoo! Toolbar and Adobe Photoshop® Album 2.0 Starter Edition when you downloaded the installer. I've installed AR7 on at least a dozen machines at home and work without it requiring the Yahoo Toolbar to be installed. Try redownloading the installer. Steve

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                          Roger Wright
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                          Nope. The automatic reminder thingy won't let you unselect the Yahoo junk. It's all or nothing, so I pick nothing.:mad: "...putting all your eggs in one basket along with your bowling ball and gym clothes only gets you scrambled eggs and an extra laundry day... " - Jeffry J. Brickley

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                            I'm using Acrobat Reader 5 at work and it's painfully slow on my 2.66GHz 1GB RAM machine. :( I've used Reader 6 sometime back and found it to be as slow as v5, if not slower. Has anybody used v7 here? Is it better or worse than v5? Vote 1 if v7 is faster than v5. Vote 5 if v7 is slower than v5. Leave a comment if I should avoid v7 like the plague. :rolleyes: Cheers, Vikram.


                            http://www.geocities.com/vpunathambekar "I don't have time to read all that, but I do believe those stats to be ludicrous." — Stan Shannon.

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                            There's also something I read in a magazine that helped me. You'll probably be able to google it. in the folder 'Plug-ins' there's a bunch of Dll's that Adobe loads when it starts up, but it only needs 3 of them. I just forgot which ones. Move the others to another backup folder, leaving just those 3 and Adobe will open up like lightning! My articles www.stillwaterexpress.com BlackDice

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