Adobe PDF Reader is well known and widely used PDF reader, even though there are several other alternatives to Adobe PDF Reader are available, mainly because of its wide variety of platform support. Adobe PDF Reader is not only available for Windows but for also Mac & Linux platform too and we are sure that majority of Windows user will have Adobe PDF Reader as default PDF reader.

The free Adobe PDF reader is loaded with all the required features for opening and reading PDF files however the big annoyance of Adobe PDF reader is slow loading while opening any PDF file. Often it takes 30 seconds to a minute to load and open PDF files, especially if you on old computer with low RAM.

There isn’t much we can do to this, but one trick which may speedup Adobe Reader loading time is by disabling unwanted plugins of Adobe PDF Reader. If you are one of those suffering from slow loading of Adobe PDF Reader then follow below steps to speed up.

How to Speed up Adobe Reader for opening PDF file faster

1. Launch Windows Explorer by pressing Windows Key + E shortcut

2. Navigate to the Program Files folder, usually C:\Program Files

3. Below this, navigate to Adobe\Acrobat x.xx\Reader (x.xx is version which you have installed in your PC)

4. In the right-hand pane, find the folder named plug_ins

5. Right-click it and choose Rename, changing it to plug_ins_NOT

6. Create a new folder named plug_ins

7. From the plug_ins_NOT folder, copy just three files to the new plug_ins folder: EWH32.api, printme.api, and search.api as shown in below screenshot

That’s all you need do, next time when you open PDF file, only those three plug-ins will come along, and you should notice a significant speed improvement. There may be some time when your PDF file failed to load due to  missing required plugins, like when you need to read encrypted PDFs or if for any other reason you want to undo this change, simply close Adobe Reader, delete the plug_ins folder and rename plug_ins_NOT back to plug_ins.