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Jonathan Sachs wrote:
> Is there a way to install Acrobat Reader as a service, so that it will
> always be loaded and initialized when I need it?
> 
> Background: this morning I got a phone call which required me to open
> a PDF file, and brought the conversation to a dead halt until I did
> so.  My computer went off and scrubbed its disk for at least 15
> seconds before the program came up -- not its usual behavior, but this
> sometimes happens, and I don't know any way to avoid it except to
> install an infinite amount of RAM.
> 
> I would like Reader to be running all the time, just like my virus
> checker, backup program, etc.  And I would rather not put it in the
> startup folder -- first, because it would then occupy space on the
> task bar all the time, and second, because terminating it by accident
> would be too easy.
Get (free) Foxit Reader.  It loads almost instantaneously.
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:46:03 GMT, Bob P <eracars@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>Get (free) Foxit Reader.  It loads almost instantaneously.

I appreciate the suggestion, but that is not the type of solution I
need.  The simplest reason for that is that Adobe Reader also loads
almost instantaneously -- most of the time.  The delay, when there is
one, appears to be associated with the mere fact that a program must
be loaded, not with the size of the program.

Jonathan Sachs wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 18:46:03 GMT, Bob P <eracars@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> Get (free) Foxit Reader.  It loads almost instantaneously.
> 
> I appreciate the suggestion, but that is not the type of solution I
> need.  The simplest reason for that is that Adobe Reader also loads
> almost instantaneously -- most of the time.  The delay, when there is
> one, appears to be associated with the mere fact that a program must
> be loaded, not with the size of the program.

It may be that sometimes the DLLs are in your cache, but you can't 
control that.  There's also the ugly possibility that your hard drive 
has flakey sectors.

Try this: 
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/Adobe-Reader-SpeedUp.shtml