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Posted August 23, 2012
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DukeNukemForever: What pdf-viewer do you use? Some of them have can expand the explorer (shell extentsions) to get preview images and other functions. For that case deinstall you pdf-viewer and reinstall it without them.

Edit: If you use Acrobat Reader, check if there is a pdfshell.dll in your task manager. Kill that process and see if the problem still exists.
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Elenarie: If he's using the latest version of Adobe Reader, there shouldn't be a process like the one you named.
Ah, good to know. It's a very long time since I moved away from the reader.

About foxit reader : There should be FoxitPDFInfo.dll in the program folder, move that file to somewhere else (if you can) and restart the system. Maybe you will see it also in the task manager, in that case just kill it and try again.
Post edited August 23, 2012 by DukeNukemForever
Posted August 23, 2012
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ReynardFox: I won't touch Acrobat reader, it's a bloated, slow, resource hog of a program, Foxit is very fast and fluff free, but I'll uninstall it anyway in a minute and see if I can then extract/use these files.

I'm on Windows XP SP3 by the way.
Would be quite pathetic if your fast and fluff free PDF reader was actually the one causing your problems. :)

I duuno why people find Rader to be slow and bloated. I don't see anything in it that would suggest that it is bloated with useless stuff. Maybe the one 'Create PDF online' icon? :D
Posted August 23, 2012
Yeah sorry but I had lots of issues with Foxit - despite its awesome name - and I went back to Adobe years ago. :\
Posted August 23, 2012
Well I'll be jiggered, it WAS the shell extension for previews in foxit that was doing it. Everything fine after an uninstall, and after a reinstall, deleting FoxitPDFInfo.dll stopped it from being a butt.

Shame I can only mark one post as the solution because it was a combined effort. Thanks to everyone for helping me find the cause. :)

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Elenarie: Would be quite pathetic if your fast and fluff free PDF reader was actually the one causing your problems. :)

I duuno why people find Rader to be slow and bloated. I don't see anything in it that would suggest that it is bloated with useless stuff. Maybe the one 'Create PDF online' icon? :D
It would be pathetic yes, lol. But as for Acrobat, in my experience it has always been slow to load, far slower than any other reader i've tried, and a bit laggy to view.
Post edited August 23, 2012 by ReynardFox
Posted August 23, 2012
Add another reason tot the list of why file-browser thumbnailing extensions are a bad idea.
Other problems: performance, security/safety, ui stalls in explorer...

But ooo.. shiny!
Posted August 23, 2012
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jsjrodman: Add another reason tot the list of why file-browser thumbnailing extensions are a bad idea.
Other problems: performance, security/safety, ui stalls in explorer...

But ooo.. shiny!
I didn't even know thumbnailing extensions were a thing, what a terrible, unnecessary concept.
Posted August 23, 2012
If you're looking for an alternative PDF reader, I use Evince (originally written for Gnome/Linux, but there's a Windows port). Completely isolated, doesn't integrate into anything.

https://live.gnome.org/Evince/Downloads
Posted August 23, 2012
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jsjrodman: Add another reason tot the list of why file-browser thumbnailing extensions are a bad idea.
Other problems: performance, security/safety, ui stalls in explorer...

But ooo.. shiny!
+1 for this.
Posted August 23, 2012
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ReynardFox: Well I'll be jiggered, it WAS the shell extension for previews in foxit that was doing it. Everything fine after an uninstall, and after a reinstall, deleting FoxitPDFInfo.dll stopped it from being a butt.

Shame I can only mark one post as the solution because it was a combined effort. Thanks to everyone for helping me find the cause. :)
No problem, glad you got it working.
Posted August 23, 2012
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Elenarie: I duuno why people find Reader to be slow and bloated. I don't see anything in it that would suggest that it is bloated with useless stuff. Maybe the one 'Create PDF online' icon? :D
I don't necessarily know that it's bloated, but it's definitely not well-optimized. PDFs that consist solely of images in particular load agonizingly slowly regardless of system. Several of the free readers are blindingly fast by comparison.
Posted August 23, 2012
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bevinator: I don't necessarily know that it's bloated, but it's definitely not well-optimized. PDFs that consist solely of images in particular load agonizingly slowly regardless of system. Several of the free readers are blindingly fast by comparison.
I've found Adobe's Windows Phone application to be very, very slow. But the desktop application has been doing well here.

But in all honesty, I've not used it that much, only use PDFs whenever I need to read about something and when I'm sending something to someone, in which case, I don't care how slow / fast it opens up the documents. :)

There's a build in PDF reader in 8, called ... Reader. I've yet to try that one. I may remove Adobe Reader after all.
Posted August 23, 2012
I use Foxit Reader since Adobe Reader was taking ages to run and load larger PDFs.

For me, Foxit is the fastest. It takes around 1 second to start, and around 3 secs to load any PDF file.

Maybe it's not that secure, but I always disable all scripts and any online features in every PDF viewer, so I don't care.
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