Comments on: Disable Content Preparation Progress Dialog in Adobe Acrobat

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 19 May 2010 17:44:13 +0000

Thanks ! Blimmin thing was driving me crazy until I googled the problem and found your post – awesome !!

By: Chay

Chay — Thu, 06 May 2010 15:23:44 +0000

If you are not actually using the windows narrator for anything, then you can deactivate the problem at the source: [start]+[u] click on “Narrator is running” and hit Stop. You can also uncheck “Sart automatically when Utility Manager starts”, to avoid reoccurence.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 00:07:55 +0000

“Post 4″ will correct the problem only for the current document which is open. Even after deleting every single plug-in for the Reader, I still got the prompt (I have Reader 8.0 and Windows 7).

The more permanent extension of “Post 4″ ‘s strategy is to instead go to the Accessibility Setup Assistant (under Documents), which sets more global preferences. On the fourth page, you can click “read only current page.” This seems to get rid of the dialogue prompt for all documents, not just the current one.

However, as “Post 31″ states, I don’t think this fixes the underlying behavior, since the reader will still prepare every page as you go.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:17:51 +0000

“Post 4″ did not really help me, but the first of the origin two options was great. Thanks! Newly happy PDF reading man!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:13:38 +0000

That fix gets rid of the prompt, but not the actual problem. It still causes a major resource drain when reading each page as you scroll through the document.

By: Sander

Sander — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:08:23 +0000

you`re the best!

By: John H

John H — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:26:07 +0000

Thanks author and number 4.

What idiot at Adobe thought this was a good software update exactly??

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:20:06 +0000

Perfect!

By: Nima

Nima — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:03:15 +0000

1. In the Adobe Reader press CTRL+K (Alternatively open EDIT > Preferences)

adobe-acrobat-content-preparation-screen-options 2. Go to Categories, select Reading

3. Choose Screen Reader Options and select Only read the currently visible pages.
4. OK
5. Next time you will not see the pop up.

By: honarmand

honarmand — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:04:47 +0000

thanks alot number 4 .