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Gary H
Lv 6
Gary H asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 1 decade ago

Why is Adobe reader using my CPU so heavily?

I have several .pdf's open. For some reason, my CPU is nearly running full throttle for acrobat.exe.... continuously! What the hell is acrobat doing and how do I get it to stop? They're just documents, for God's sakes, they ain't supposed to be doing anything! This is a Vista machine, only half my 3GB of RAM is in use, and I just did updates and a reboot. It was doing this before, then was ok after reboot for awhile, now it's at it again.

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  • Wviper
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago
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    adobe could be updating or something, it could be bugged, or you could have a PDF virus.

    Download and use Foxit reader. it is smaller, quicker, and safer than adobe reader.

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