A question for the computer literate.

[gridlore]

What is AcroRd32.exe and why is it eating all my resources? Seriously, it's using more memory than iTunes.

Comments

[soobunny.livejournal.com]

It's Adobe Acrobat. Did you open a PDF recently?

[guppiecat]

It's adobe acrobat. It is prone to memory leaks. I recommend rebooting your PC to clear it and updating to the latest version that should theoretically be better at stuff like that.

[jemstone.livejournal.com]

Rebooting is not necessary if all of the processes spawned by the application can be found and killed. I believe Doug's using XP, which is supposed to have protected memory allocation for things just up this sort of alley.

Just kill the task from the task manager and it should kill all of the child processes.

[kengr]

A lot of folks are recommending replace Acrobat with this:

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I love Foxit. It takes up far less memory than Acrobat and has better annotation features.

[jeffreycornish.livejournal.com]

It's Virus. If you notice your computer trying to change your music preferences in iTunes, call in the Ortillery.

[freetrav.livejournal.com]

It's Acrobat Reader, it's a resource hog, and it doesn't always shut down if you view a PDF file from within your browser window, until/unless you shut down your browser. If your browser is IE, you'll have to reboot.