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This 5-part series of reviews is a reply to a statement in

Debunking Common Windows Performance Tweaking Myths

which says "I’d go a step further: Don’t run registry cleaner programs, period. I won’t go so far as to call them snake oil, but what possible performance benefits can you get from “cleaning up” unneeded registry entries and eliminating a few stray DLL files?"

 

We choose to take the scientific approach, to prove or disprove something, what is better and more objective than testing the assumption in an experiment. Find out whether registry cleaner is useful or not in our 5-part reviews which are the results of our experiment.

So you all have been complaining that Adobe Acrobat Reader has turned into a bloatware. Some even suggested using lightweight replacements for efficiency. But does it really perform badly? Here we do a benchmarking to compare Adobe Acrobat Reader with two other free alternatives: Foxit Reader and Cool PDF Reader. We downloaded and installed them all at the same time (their newest versions respectively) on a fresh-installed Windows Vista Ultimate on a Intel Core2Duo CPU P8400@2.26GHz, ~2.2GHz, 1GB RAM Workstation environment.