

This turns off the little page preview which appears next to the scroll bar if you scroll through the document by clicking and dragging. Disable the page preview on the scrollbar.Ĭlick on View > Page Display > Enable scrolling.This reduces the time it takes for Adobe to launch and should address problems with the application appearing to "freeze" when you first open it, but if you still have problems, try:

The behaviour is not consistent but if you encounter it with a file you're using, the following suggestions will help you to view the page more easily.Ĭlick on Edit > Preferences and then in the left hand pane select the General option (in Acrobat Reader X) or the Security (enhanced) option (in Acrobat Reader XI) and untick the option "Enable Protected Mode at startup" then click OK PDF documents can take a while to open and when scrolling, Adobe Reader can freeze and, occasionally close down altogether. Sometimes there are problems viewing large PDFs in Adobe Reader. 2609What should I do if Adobe Reader crashes, stops responding or if I have other problems opening PDF documents using it?
