Is there a way to make Acrobat Reader not annoying?

I finally turned off the obnoxious auto updates that Reader seems to do all the time.

Now, with the most recent version, 9.3, they invented a new amazing feature apparently. When I open a PDF document, after reading it for about 5 or 10 seconds, a popup says Content Preparation Progress and a status bar appears for about 30 seconds or so evaluating the fine pages or something, even though I was just reading them fine beforehand.

So then when I'm done reading what I want, I close Reader (like a rebel!) before the dialog disappears then another window pops up and says "Acrobat Reader has stopped working... We'll notify you of the problem... bla". All I wanted to do was open the document for a sec and see what was in it.

So anyway, yeah.

<http://download.cnet.com/Foxit-Reader/3000-10743_4-10313206.html>

Try it and see if does what you need and then you can remove Adobe Reader.

It will try to install a toolbar and change your default search & hompage. Just untick those options. Also tries to install E-Bay shortcut, quick launch & start menu icons, untick that option on he "Setup Completed" page of the installation.

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r22056793-Foxit-Reader-Toolbar

Use http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/">Foxit Reader.

had with Adobe Reader is that it only reads. And does nothing else.
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Now the God-Damn thing is "In-your-face" and takes up almost as much space as an Operating System.

Geez, Adobe....We just want to read a PDF Doc, not install a 200 meg program.

http://www.docu-track.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

I used to use Foxit, but progressive releases were making it s-l-o-w, and the toolbar cruft it wanted to attach began to annoy me (plus, it'll no longer let me install in the folder I used to use, it now must reside in a "Foxit Reader" subfolder, no matter where you put it).

PDF XChange is snappier. Rendering is crisper. In some instances, Foxit text rendering can look like a cut up ransom note. And unlike Foxit, PDF XChange is available in a portable version.

FOXIT:


PDF XCHANGE:


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If you're someone who just wants to view PDF documents, with no need for Javascript or the other bells and whistles, Sumatra PDF works great. It's under a meg in size, and is completely portable, never writing to the registry or outside it's own folder.

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/software/sumatrapdf/index.html