Comments on: Disable Content Preparation Progress Dialog in Adobe Acrobat

By: Don Craig

Don Craig — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:26:06 +0000

Thanks for this. Acrobat 9.5 was crashing on a document compare. The compare would start and halfway through it would freeze up trying to do “content preparation” on one or the other of the files. A watchdog timer would go off and the application would be declared crashed. Making this change and acknowledging the lack of a screen reader on the next start made it all work. I mean, I just move my lips when I read, I don’t require content preparation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:27:16 +0000

Thanks for the direction. Was really starting to piss me off.

Changed the security settings on the files to “DENY” for all listed users.
System
Administrators
User.

Hopefully this will prevent updats from deleting and updating or overwriting the files.

This does stop acrobat from processing the files.
Works even though I have domain adminstrator andlocal adminstrator rights to my workstation.

By: Piyush

Piyush — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 07:18:53 +0000

Thanks

By: Dennis Newton

Dennis Newton — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 06:03:25 +0000

Denny 12/30/2011- solved my problem in just a few minutes. Using Acrobat 9 (version 9.4.5) Pro. Thanks.

By: Mike O

Mike O — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:42:41 +0000

Worked on Acrobat 9 (version 9.4.5) Pro.

Thanks for the fix to a major annoyance!

By: Ronnie

Ronnie — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:17:23 +0000

Thank you! It works on version 10.0 as well.

By: Jacob Schick

Jacob Schick — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 06:37:58 +0000

I try it on Acrobat Standard 9.0, and it’s working.
Thank you!!!!!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:32:04 +0000

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

By: Sachin Desai

Sachin Desai — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 22:07:19 +0000

Thank you! Note that for Windows 7 and the new version of Adobe the files are located in different places, but the names are the same (and also, you have to remove an additional file, called MakeAccessable).

This is a huge saver! It not only saved time, but lots of stress as I had another huge reason to kill Adobe each time that thing came up, and would make the file crash if i canceled out of it. What a stupid idea!!!!!!!!

By: Zee

Zee — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:39:24 +0000

Thanks for all kind help