Adobe reader chewing up CPU for no good reason

Acrobat reader takes up a lot of cpu (50% of a quad proc machine) for doing nothing because of what seems like a welcome screen that never gets closed.

Original content at: http://blog.ronnypot.nl/?p=948 

Here is the fix:

1. Open the regedit and navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\FeatureLockDown

2. Add a new key with the name: cWelcomeScreen

3. Add a DWORD value to the key: bShowWelcomeScreen with value 0

Now when starting Adobe Reader it will not start the welcome screen but also does not uses the high cpu.

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