How to: Speed up Adobe Reader (Windows only)

For a "portable document format," PDFs sure can take a while to load--especially if you're opening them with Adobe Reader. The problem has gotten to be so bad that a whole cottage industry of third party developers creating fast-booting PDF browser plug-ins has sprouted up during the past few years. Like to take matters into your own hands? Check out Adobe Reader SpeedUp, a freeware app that purges Adobe Reader of unused plug-ins in order to, well, speed things up.