Greg,
At a previous company I worked for we used Foxit PDF reader, might be what you
are looking for: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/
Bill Chesnut
BizTalk Server MVP
Melbourne, Australia
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From: Greg Keogh [mailto:[email protected]]
To: 'ozDotNet' [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:49:06 +1000
Subject: [OT] Adobe reader replacement
I take pride in running a “clean” machine. Using autoruns.exe I find and stop
or remove any useless processes. After installing things like Nero, Adobe
Reader and various device drivers it can take hours to get rid the mind
boggling amount of utter garbage they install.
Well, Adobe Reader defeated me ... straight after booting this morning I get an
Abode reader popup asking for an update.
I thought I killed that stupid thing deader than Elvis months ago, but it has
outsmarted me and reappeared. My pride is shattered and I’m angry. Despite
searching the registry and the web I am unable to figure out just how it
managed to remain alive and where it has secreted itself. I found an option in
reader preferences to toggle the auto-update behaviour and I used procmon.exe
to try and find what it’s changing, but I can’t find any registry or file
writes in the log. The bastard has tricked me.
The only thing to do now is get rid of Adobe Reader forever and replace it with
something else that is polite and lightweight. I’m running some web searches
for Adobe reader replacements, but I thought I’d ask in here if anyone has one
they like.
Cheers,
Greg
