Acrobat Reader - process in RAM

[Ai Haibara]

Most of the time, after Reader (v7/8/9) is run, it leaves a process in memory that can take anywhere from 800k or so, to 18MB or more. I'm assuming it's probably a quick-run/quick-open type of process. But is there any way to keep it from doing this? I've tried looking through the settings, and haven't really found anything, yet.

It's mostly annoying on this system (1GB of RAM) but on other XP systems we have, which have half that amount or less, it's more of a problem.

[redwudz]

I dumped Acrobat reader over a year ago when it insisted I update the program to display a 2 year old .pdf file.

I now use the freeware version of Foxit reader for .pdf display. It's faster, uses less RAM and doesn't constantly download updates. http://www.foxitsoftware.com/downloads/index.php

[Midzuki]

Downgrade to Acrobat Reader 4 or 5 --- seriously.

( http://oldapps.com/acrobat_reader.htm )

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[Ai Haibara]

I figured someone might suggest Foxit. Unfortunately, it's apparently not one hundred percent accurate in displaying and printing (or so I'm told), and the people who use the computers on which I'm trying to stop the process from sticking in memory require it. (That, and for some reason their banking site requires it, too, and I'm not yet sure why.)

Odd thing is, I tried installing Foxit on one of my old Win98 towers two or three days ago... and it crashed during installation. It crashed when I tried to open it, so I tried to uninstall it... the process didn't seem to do anything but create more copies of the uninstaller (if I remember correctly) in the system temp directory until the C: drive ran out of space. Maybe Sumatra PDF Reader'll work on that system, instead...

Edit: I'm not sure downgrading would help, Midzuki. I think they require the most recent version(s)... and since one of those systems is using Vista (yes, I know you don't like Vista ), I'm not sure the older versions will work as well, even in compatibility modes.

[Midzuki]

Yes, I already knew Foxit is not accurate at displaying/printing PDFs ---
this the reason why I didn't suggest it

But if you cannot find a way of doing without the "higher" versions of
Acrobat Reader, then you're really out of luck. Gomen nasai.


As for the annoying stubborn process you mentioned: you could create a Start menu shortcut
for killing the annoyance --- e.g., after closing Acrobat 5, it leaves the application AOM.exe
running in the background, and I terminate this latter by pressing "Windows", 6, 4,
which executes the following command:

C:\BINARIES\nircmd.exe killprocess AOM.exe

HTH.

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[Ai Haibara]

As if I could get them to remember to kill the process. I can't get them to remember it's there.

If it were up to me, I probably wouldn't even have it installed. I don't normally use PDFs (even though a friend of mine swears by them, for all his documents), so a simple viewer to view and OpenOffice to create is all I use.