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Or even - after checking the readme in the ar-speedup zip -
http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk Shane "Shane" wrote in message news:... George, Acrobat Reader v6.x only. In Edit | Preferences. Under *Internet* you have *Allow speculative downloading in the background*. Under *Trust Manager* are *Allow documents to open other files and launch other applications* and *Allow multimedia operations*. Somewhere among that lot there is *Enable Acrobat javascript* but didn't see it just now, however, some of these options disappear when the responsible plug-ins aren't loaded and AR-Speedup stops them - or most of them - loading. There's an automatic update setting too which I haven't seen in some time. AR-Speedup: http://www.flexbeta.net/main/print.php?id=8466 Shane "George Gee" wrote in message ... Hi Shane. As I have *always* had problems with Adobe Acrobat (any version), can you enlarge on: "Allow Multimedia Operations", "Allow Speculative Downloading in the Background" crap? ar-speedup? George gee *Shane* has posted this message: Haven't had any problems - once configured. Once all that "Allow Multimedia Operations", "Allow Speculative Downloading in the Background" crap is disabled. Except for the excessive time to open - and that was cured by that ar-speedup you posted the link to a while back, Noel! I've been pleasantly surprised with the ease of reading the 585 page 9/11 Report.pdf. What problems are you having? Shane "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... ...and I'm getting so fed up with the hassle of AR6 on XP that I'm considering going back to v5! Acrobat has been getting more and more intrusive as the versions have come - and someone really needs to take a massive cluestick to the writers' collective heads, and bring what is supposed to be a plugin back to what it's supposed to do - help the user read pdf files, instead of attempting to be another browser/media player. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... Janet, I'm sorry to read that you weren't able to solve the problem with Acrobat 6. I see though that you've dropped back to using Acrobat 5. I'll tell you a little secret g, I also use Acrobat 5 on Win Me having no need for the bloat that is Acrobat 6. :-) Cheers, -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Janet wrote: I went to the Adobe site and downloaded an older version 5.1 and everything is okay now thank you for your advice |
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Shane
Thanks for that, have installed ar-speedup, there's a definite improvement, will see how things go! George Gee *Shane* has posted this message: George, Acrobat Reader v6.x only. In Edit | Preferences. Under *Internet* you have *Allow speculative downloading in the background*. Under *Trust Manager* are *Allow documents to open other files and launch other applications* and *Allow multimedia operations*. Somewhere among that lot there is *Enable Acrobat javascript* but didn't see it just now, however, some of these options disappear when the responsible plug-ins aren't loaded and AR-Speedup stops them - or most of them - loading. There's an automatic update setting too which I haven't seen in some time. AR-Speedup: http://www.flexbeta.net/main/print.php?id=8466 Shane "George Gee" wrote in message ... Hi Shane. As I have *always* had problems with Adobe Acrobat (any version), can you enlarge on: "Allow Multimedia Operations", "Allow Speculative Downloading in the Background" crap? ar-speedup? George gee *Shane* has posted this message: Haven't had any problems - once configured. Once all that "Allow Multimedia Operations", "Allow Speculative Downloading in the Background" crap is disabled. Except for the excessive time to open - and that was cured by that ar-speedup you posted the link to a while back, Noel! I've been pleasantly surprised with the ease of reading the 585 page 9/11 Report.pdf. What problems are you having? Shane "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... ...and I'm getting so fed up with the hassle of AR6 on XP that I'm considering going back to v5! Acrobat has been getting more and more intrusive as the versions have come - and someone really needs to take a massive cluestick to the writers' collective heads, and bring what is supposed to be a plugin back to what it's supposed to do - help the user read pdf files, instead of attempting to be another browser/media player. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... Janet, I'm sorry to read that you weren't able to solve the problem with Acrobat 6. I see though that you've dropped back to using Acrobat 5. I'll tell you a little secret g, I also use Acrobat 5 on Win Me having no need for the bloat that is Acrobat 6. :-) Cheers, -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Janet wrote: I went to the Adobe site and downloaded an older version 5.1 and everything is okay now thank you for your advice |
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NP, George. I notice it's for 5.x too. That reminded me that, in fact, I
used to have the same problems with the 5.x Reader. The new options in 6.x seemed more potential security concerns than anything else and doubtless, in 9x at least, all that background stuff would impact on performance - or should I say *stability* (especially, it seemed to me, when viewing in the TIF/installed as a BHO) - but it's the ar-speedup that's made the most noticable improvement here. Shane "George Gee" wrote in message ... Shane Thanks for that, have installed ar-speedup, there's a definite improvement, will see how things go! George Gee *Shane* has posted this message: George, Acrobat Reader v6.x only. In Edit | Preferences. Under *Internet* you have *Allow speculative downloading in the background*. Under *Trust Manager* are *Allow documents to open other files and launch other applications* and *Allow multimedia operations*. Somewhere among that lot there is *Enable Acrobat javascript* but didn't see it just now, however, some of these options disappear when the responsible plug-ins aren't loaded and AR-Speedup stops them - or most of them - loading. There's an automatic update setting too which I haven't seen in some time. AR-Speedup: http://www.flexbeta.net/main/print.php?id=8466 Shane "George Gee" wrote in message ... Hi Shane. As I have *always* had problems with Adobe Acrobat (any version), can you enlarge on: "Allow Multimedia Operations", "Allow Speculative Downloading in the Background" crap? ar-speedup? George gee *Shane* has posted this message: Haven't had any problems - once configured. Once all that "Allow Multimedia Operations", "Allow Speculative Downloading in the Background" crap is disabled. Except for the excessive time to open - and that was cured by that ar-speedup you posted the link to a while back, Noel! I've been pleasantly surprised with the ease of reading the 585 page 9/11 Report.pdf. What problems are you having? Shane "Noel Paton" wrote in message ... ...and I'm getting so fed up with the hassle of AR6 on XP that I'm considering going back to v5! Acrobat has been getting more and more intrusive as the versions have come - and someone really needs to take a massive cluestick to the writers' collective heads, and bring what is supposed to be a plugin back to what it's supposed to do - help the user read pdf files, instead of attempting to be another browser/media player. -- Noel Paton (MS-MVP 2002-2004, Win9x) Nil Carborundum Illegitemi http://www.btinternet.com/~winnoel/millsrpch.htm http://tinyurl.com/6oztj Please read http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm on how to post messages to NG's "Mike M" wrote in message ... Janet, I'm sorry to read that you weren't able to solve the problem with Acrobat 6. I see though that you've dropped back to using Acrobat 5. I'll tell you a little secret g, I also use Acrobat 5 on Win Me having no need for the bloat that is Acrobat 6. :-) Cheers, -- Mike Maltby MS-MVP Janet wrote: I went to the Adobe site and downloaded an older version 5.1 and everything is okay now thank you for your advice |
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