ADOBE READER SPEED-UP V1.12 =========================== Author : Joseph Cox Website : http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk Forum : http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.

uk/forum Released: 1st January, 2004. SUPPORTS -------This software supports the speed-up of the following: (Note: Both free and full versions are supported) Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe Adobe Acrobat Acrobat Acrobat Acrobat Acrobat Acrobat Reader Reader 3.0 (experimental) 4.0 4.0.5 5.0 5.1 5.5 6.0 6.0.1

PURPOSE ------Adobe Reader Speed-Up (ARSU) was created in an effort to automate the process of speeding up Adobe Reader's launch time by disabling the majority of plugins that are, quite franky, completely useless for most users. If the program gives you an error when you try to run it, then you require the VB Runtimes pack. Download it here: http://www.tnk-bootblock.co.uk/prods/vbruntimes/index.php When the program is up and running, select your Adobe Reader directory if you are prompted to via the Change Settings link on the first step, then click Next and select the type of speed up you require ("SpeedUp - Fast" is recommended), and finally click on the Start button. If you should require to revert back to the original slow loading state, then run the program again and select Restore Original Configuration and click on Start. For information on what the plugins do, click on the Plugin Help button in the step with the list of plugins. Then click on a plugin to display its respective information. That's all there is to it. SETTINGS PROFILES ----------------ARSU saves its settings using the current path of the program executable. This means that you can have an ARSU executable in C:\, and another one in C:\MyDir, and both of them would maintain completely unrelated settings. This is useful if you have more than one Adobe Reader/Acrobat installation and would like to quickly and easily modify them without having to continually re-select the install path using the Settings window.

SILENT DEPLOYMENT ----------------ARSU can be deployed silently. To enable this mode, load the Deployment.ini into a text editor and set the Enable flag to 1. This should be enough for most configurations. For more options, see the inline comments within the Deployment.ini file. Joseph Cox (AKA BootBlock) HISTORY ------v1.12 - 1st January, 2003. - Added support for Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 and 5.5. - Added experimental support for Adobe Acrobat 3. - Added silent deployment support. See ReadMe.txt. - Added more plugin descriptions to Plugin Help. (thanks to Philco) - Plugin Help can be edited by editing PluginHelp.txt - Improved checking for Acrobat/Reader installations. - Improved error checking and handling. - Fixed bug that could result in the Speed Up operation failing. v1.11 - 27th December, 2003. - ARSU can now maintain more than one settings profile. See Settings Profiles in ReadMe.txt for more information. - If there are multiple installations of Adobe Reader, then the latest installed version will be used as default. - Added more plugin descriptions to Plugin Help. - Minor changes. v1.10 - 24th December, 2003. - Greatly improved checking for existing Acrobat/Reader installations. - Two Speed-Ups now cannot be performed in a row. You need to do a Restore before you can Speed-Up again. Same applies to doing two Restores in a row. - Plugin details now work on non-English versions of Reader. - Fixed tooltips. v1.09 - 21st December, 2003. - Redesigned interface. - Now supports the non-free version of Reader 6. - Backup location can now be changed. - Changed Fast/Turbo plugin selection profiles, as recommended by Jonathan Topping. v1.00 - 16th September, 2003. - Initial release.