Ongoing Issue Adobe Acrobat DC Not Responding at Startup

I am having the exact same issue. Started about a month ago.  Acrobat Acrobat Pro DC hangs in "not responding".  The program is almost unusable at this point.  I can't make any changes or move throughout a document without the programming hanging with blue circle spinning and "not reponding"  I'm a long time Adobe user and have never had this issue.  Any suggestions on resolution are needed and appreciated.

I think someone mentioned this already - and it works for me since I mostly just read documents.  In Reader, sign out of 'Adobe Online Services'.  I have not had any unresponsiveness at startup since doing that.

As much as I'm aware that saying "I have the same issue" does not help much I can relate here. I work for a MSP that deals with multiple different environments. and we've had this issue at many of our customers (most of them are using Microsoft Terminal Services where it seems to be the most frequent but we've seen the issue on regular workstations as well.)

We are running the latest version of Adobe Reader DC (2019.010.20098 at the time of this writing) on those servers.    

Updated to version: 19.010.20098 - seems to solve the issue.

.msp File can be downloaded at below url:

19.010.20098 Out of cycle update, February 21, 2019 — Release Notes for Acrobat DC Products

Our current work around for now if to leave Adobe Acrobat open in the background and just close tabs. Its 200% faster and every user i've told to do this is saying they might just do this in future lol

Hardly a fix though, Come on Adobe

I am having this same issue, I tried all the best requests in here: 1) Repair 2) Remove Recent Files, etc.  none of that works for me. This is really annoying, Adobe should make this issue a P1 issue in my view. The app locks up for 20 seconds for on every new open. That's got to be a P1....

We are seeing this on multiple users as well. Ii's a brief 3-5 second lag that just doesn't allow any input. Then its back and functioning. When you are reviewing 100's of PDFs per day this time adds up and causes frustration. All on latest version and its been re-installed multiple times.

Any more info?

Everyday for me....they keep sending me things to do but it is not me it is the program - they need to fix it! NOT RESPONDING FOR 3-6 seconds

Hi All

I had 50 or so users experiencing the same problems for the past few months. Reading multiple posts and applying every suggested fix had no effect. However i realised the problem seemed to be that when Acrobat started up it was looking for something.

• My first 'fix' to stop this:
  Keep Adobe Acrobat application open in the background. Just close individual tabs. This stopped it having to load whatever it was trying to find every time a pdf is opened.
• Then i realised it was trying to load the Recent files list.
  Select all Recent files and choose Remove From List on the right hand context menu

Acrobat opens flawlessly every time. Granted this is less of a fix and more of a hack around but i hope it helps a little.

I'm having this issue as well. Every time I open Acrobat now, after a few seconds there's a long freeze "not responding" period where I can't do anything. This is extremey frustrating. It started appear with the latest Acrobat (never experienced it before). And troubleshoot or reinstall the program did not work. Still the same, also at my other computer as well - so it has to be something common with the current release and the latest version of windows 10.

Please fix adobe!

version: 19.010.20098