>>>You probably know that Acrobat 6.0x is a pig - takes forever to load, then when you close it it still remains as an active task in your Task Manager hogging up 32MB of RAM.
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>>>Both of these problems are fixed in 7.0. Kudos to Adobe.
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>>>http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1751157,00.asp
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>>Would you happen to know if it still has an insane and pointless dependency on the Windows Journal Viewer? I've been routinely removing version 6 when it comes bundled with new machines, and installing version 4 instead, for that reason.
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>I don't know. All I know is I have *never* installed Journal Viewer on my W2K Pro box and all versions of Acrobat Reader I've had on it have run just fine.

Interesting. The Win 2K systems I've bought recently all came with Windows Journal Viewer in the Start menu but not actually installed. I've never bothered to install it either. However, despite the fact that Windows Journal Viewer is not actually installed on these machines, several users at my workplace, when attempting to view .pdf documents over the Web, have encountered problems related to Windows Journal Viewer. There's even a specific note about it at the Adobe site. This note indicates that there is indeed a dependency between Acrobat Reader versions 6 and 7 and Windows Journal Viewer. The note claims that the problem is due to "corrupt registry entries" for WJV. (I won't even go into the absurdities that ensue if you actually try to "repair" WJV or download and install the latest version from the MS website. Suffice it to say that it doesn't work.) Why WJV registry entries should be corrupt--or even exist--when the product hasn't been installed, I can't imagine. Even if my vendor somehow messed up the Windows install and, thereby, the WJV settings (which I doubt), I still shouldn't be seeing this problem. Why Adobe--after releasing 5 successful and reliable versions--should have suddenly decided to introduce this dependency on WJV components in a viewer for a document standard that is supposed to be platform-independent, is the real heart of the matter.