Lightweight Acrobat

[JohnDefTech]

Anyway to turn Adobe into a light-weight pdf reader? Looking for a lightweight, local-only PDF reader without telemetry, background processes, or account sign-in. I just want to open, read, edit, and sign PDFs without 500MB of support architecture. Thanks

[Amal.]

Hi there

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

Adobe Acrobat Reader is a full-featured tool, it isn't designed to be ultra-lightweight out of the box. That said, you can streamline it a bit:

- Turn off background services: Go to Edit > Preferences > General, and disable options like:

       - Show online storage when opening files

        - Show online storage when saving files

Disable auto-launching services: Look for and disable Adobe Acrobat Update Service from your system startup (via Task Manager > Startup tab on Windows).

Hope this will help.