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Shark007, After release 1 of Acrobat 9 Lite, I commented that an item would be added to the event viewer everytime a PDF file was opened complaining about not finding AcroRd32info.exe. Version 2 has corrected this problem! Great work!

Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 is installed on my laptop with Vista Home OS. As you point out 'AcroRd32Info.exe' does not appear to load as a "Process" or a "Service" with Vista. Interestingly I copied version 8.1.2 of 'AcroRd32Info.exe' from my laptop and placed it in the appropriate directory on my XP computer running Shark's version of Abobe Reader 9.0 and the error messages in Event Viewer stopped. 'AcroRd32Info.exe' loads as a Process (20,336k) but unloads in about 30 seconds. It does in fact load when I open an Explorer folder containing a PDF file. Regards!

Thanks for the response! I had tried disabling “Allow fast web view” & “Allow speculative downloading in the background” based on a search to not load AcroRd32Info.exe. It does not solve the annoyance! I then took a blank word file and renamed it and got the following error. Unable to start a DCOM Server: {98D9A6F1-4696-4B5E-A2E8-36B3F9C1E12C}. The error: ""C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32Info.exe" /PDFShell -Embedding is not a valid Win32 application. " Happened while starting this command: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32Info.exe" /PDFShell -Embedding Where would I get a dummy executable? Regards!

I'll look into this. No promises it'll change. Most users never read that log. (I don't). They doubleclick a PDF and if it opens, they read it.shark Shark, This was just an observation. Like you I hate programs that "call home" and automatically update etc. I use The Event Viewer to make sure that all programs "play nice" Regards!

Shark007, Great work! The one thing I have noticed is that AcroRd32Info.exe attempts to load even though the file has not been included. This creates an error message in the Event Viewer/System log as follows: Unable to start a DCOM Server: {98D9A6F1-4696-4B5E-A2E8-36B3F9C1E12C}. The error: "The system cannot find the file specified. " Happened while starting this command: "C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader\AcroRd32Info.exe" /PDFShell -Embedding The message appears about 5 times for each PDF viewed. Is there any easy way to prevent this error message? Regards!