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