Inadvertent and unwanted loading of Adobe reader

I have the free Adobe reader and when I click on a link in the Web
without realizing that the file is a .pdf, the Adobe reader starts to
load, and that darn splash screen hangs there for at least a minute.
The thing is, if I had known it was a .pdf file I wouldn't have clicked
on it in the first place, because unless for high priority documents, I
avoid using the Adobe reader because I find it a hassle.

Is there any way to get some control over this? For example, a dialog
that pops up whenever a .pdf file is clicked on the web that will say,
"This is a .pdf file, do you want to load it"? Or, alternatively, some
utility that can kill Adobe after it has started to load so I don't have
to sit there for 60 or 90 seconds waiting for it to load (after which
I'm just going to close it anyway). Or, is there some way to get Adobe
to load much faster? It takes several times longer to load than any
other application in Windows 98.

Thanks,
Larry

Thank God, someone else who thinks the same about Adobe's hassle factory and
machine crasher!

I'm sure I did see some config option where you could elect not to launch
the darned thing when it installed, but like many, I was not expecting it to
attempt to be part of Ie in such an annoying fashion!

Brian

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"Larry" wrote in message
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I have the free Adobe reader and when I click on a link in the Web
without realizing that the file is a .pdf, the Adobe reader starts to
load, and that darn splash screen hangs there for at least a minute.
The thing is, if I had known it was a .pdf file I wouldn't have clicked
on it in the first place, because unless for high priority documents, I
avoid using the Adobe reader because I find it a hassle.

Is there any way to get some control over this? For example, a dialog
that pops up whenever a .pdf file is clicked on the web that will say,
"This is a .pdf file, do you want to load it"? Or, alternatively, some
utility that can kill Adobe after it has started to load so I don't have
to sit there for 60 or 90 seconds waiting for it to load (after which
I'm just going to close it anyway). Or, is there some way to get Adobe
to load much faster? It takes several times longer to load than any
other application in Windows 98.

Thanks,
Larry





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Unless the site has pushed some other information on the status bar you can
see the .pdf extension there.

"Larry" wrote in message
...
I have the free Adobe reader and when I click on a link in the Web
without realizing that the file is a .pdf, the Adobe reader starts to
load, and that darn splash screen hangs there for at least a minute.
The thing is, if I had known it was a .pdf file I wouldn't have clicked
on it in the first place, because unless for high priority documents, I
avoid using the Adobe reader because I find it a hassle.

Is there any way to get some control over this? For example, a dialog
that pops up whenever a .pdf file is clicked on the web that will say,
"This is a .pdf file, do you want to load it"? Or, alternatively, some
utility that can kill Adobe after it has started to load so I don't have
to sit there for 60 or 90 seconds waiting for it to load (after which
I'm just going to close it anyway). Or, is there some way to get Adobe
to load much faster? It takes several times longer to load than any
other application in Windows 98.

Thanks,
Larry

Sure, if I'm super alert, I can check the status bar for every single
link on the web before clicking it. But I click on scores of links per
day. There's no way I can remember to do that consistently. What's
needed is a way to get control of that &5)##! Adobe.

Larry



"RobertVA" wrote in message
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Unless the site has pushed some other information on the status bar
you can
see the .pdf extension there.

You mean, if I uninstalled and reinstalled Adobe, I would get an option
that would say: "Each time you load Adobe, you will get a dialog box
prompting you to load Adobe before it loads." That would be the answer.

Larry


"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
...
Thank God, someone else who thinks the same about Adobe's hassle
factory and
machine crasher!

I'm sure I did see some config option where you could elect not to
launch
the darned thing when it installed, but like many, I was not expecting
it to
attempt to be part of Ie in such an annoying fashion!

Brian

"Larry" wrote in message
...

Sure, if I'm super alert, I can check the status bar for every single
link on the web before clicking it. But I click on scores of links per
day. There's no way I can remember to do that consistently. What's
needed is a way to get control of that &5)##! Adobe.

Since you miss PDF filenames on screen you
probably missed the instal option: you do not
have to allow IE to incorporate AcroRead.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"Larry" wrote in message
...

Sure, if I'm super alert, I can check the status bar for every single
link on the web before clicking it. But I click on scores of links per
day. There's no way I can remember to do that consistently. What's
needed is a way to get control of that &5)##! Adobe.

Since you miss PDF filenames on screen you
probably missed the instal option: you do not
have to allow IE to incorporate AcroRead.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


delete the file association for .pdf , then when you click on one , it will
ask what program you want to view it with...then cancel

if you did want to view it , then choose acrobat from the list ...but make
sure there is no check in the "remember this association"

it's not pretty but should work :

What a snotty answer. Do _you_ actually look at the status bar every
single time you hover the mouse over a link?


Since you miss PDF filenames on screen you
probably missed the instal option: you do not
have to allow IE to incorporate AcroRead.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)

But this would require manually choosing Adobe from the Open With dialog
box every time I wanted to open a .pdf file.

I suppose I could alter the registry and change the menu for pdf files
so that "Open" was no longer the default Then I could just choose Open
from the menu when I wanted it. But I think that wouldn't help me here,
because the problem here concerns clicking on a hyperlink in Internet
Explorer, not clicking on a pdf icon in my computer.

Larry


"Haggis" wrote in message
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"Don Phillipson" wrote in message
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"Larry" wrote in message
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Sure, if I'm super alert, I can check the status bar for every
single
link on the web before clicking it. But I click on scores of links
per
day. There's no way I can remember to do that consistently.
What's
needed is a way to get control of that &5)##! Adobe.

Since you miss PDF filenames on screen you
probably missed the instal option: you do not
have to allow IE to incorporate AcroRead.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


delete the file association for .pdf , then when you click on one , it
will
ask what program you want to view it with...then cancel

if you did want to view it , then choose acrobat from the list ...but
make
sure there is no check in the "remember this association"

it's not pretty but should work :

If it is a pdf file Acrobat reader will auto start.
And it will be getting worse. Everything in text will go
to pdf eventually. At least as the web is concerned.
A Ctrl/Alt/Del would stop it in it's tracks.
-----Original Message-----

But this would require manually choosing Adobe from the
Open With dialog
box every time I wanted to open a .pdf file.

I suppose I could alter the registry and change the menu
for pdf files
so that "Open" was no longer the default Then I could
just choose Open
from the menu when I wanted it. But I think that
wouldn't help me here,
because the problem here concerns clicking on a hyperlink
in Internet
Explorer, not clicking on a pdf icon in my computer.

Larry


"Haggis" wrote in message
...

"Don Phillipson" wrote
in message
...
"Larry" wrote in message
...

Sure, if I'm super alert, I can check the status bar
for every
single
link on the web before clicking it. But I click on
scores of links
per
day. There's no way I can remember to do that
consistently.
What's
needed is a way to get control of that &5)##! Adobe.

Since you miss PDF filenames on screen you
probably missed the instal option: you do not
have to allow IE to incorporate AcroRead.

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)


delete the file association for .pdf , then when you
click on one , it
will
ask what program you want to view it with...then cancel

if you did want to view it , then choose acrobat from
the list ...but
make
sure there is no check in the "remember this
association"

it's not pretty but should work :




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