Acrobat.exe stays loaded after leaving .pdf pages

[Ioannis]

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,

 

[Benjamin Niemann]

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?

This behaviour is intentional. Startup time of the acrobat plugin is
annoyingly long, so it tries to reduce it a bit (for the second and later
usage) by staying around in memory.
There may be an option in acrobats preferences to disable this "feature".
But this is really a question for Adobe support and has nothing to do with
HTML...

 

[Ed Mullen]

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,

This was a problem with pre-version 7 of Acrobat. I don't think it does
that anymore. Ref: http://mozilla.edmullen.net/moz_pdf.html

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[Adrienne Boswell]

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.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

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?

So does MS Office and a host of many other programs. A windows user
should come accustomed to deleting shortcuts in the 'Startup' folder.
Also 'msconfig' is your friend (if you do not feel comfortable doing a
little registry editing)...

As to RealPlayer and their ilk, they also have a nasty habit of becoming
your *default* media player even if you try to configure them not to. I
use the freeware RealAlternative and QuicktimeAlternative plugins, get
the codec without the crap!