Acrobat Standard 8.1.1 Performance Issue

Question

for a little while now we have been noticing that performance of Acrobat declines the longer that you use it. Unlike the memory leak issues this issue does not get better when you reboot the computer. you would notice that after loading a document it took 5 - 10 sec's before you were able to do anything , i.e. scroll pages. It also seamed to cause issues when doing things like alt + tab between Acrobat screens and other screens.
We have several apps which use acrobat functionally to display pdf's within them. we found that not only was Acrobat slow but also these parent apps as well as other desktop tasks like switching between windows.
In the end we found a setting "Remember files in Organizer hystory for" which was set to "Last 12 months". It appears that each time Acrobat is opened or when a new file is opened it reads this file somehow and maybe even writes to it.
We noticed that the people who were most effected have very large files ( over 30 mb's ), also part of our profiles are redirected ( not cached )to a nas which may have impacted this a little.
We have actually disabled this setting and after doing so we noticed that Acrobat has returned to it origional performace levels.
The setting is located under Preferences\documents\open settings within Acrobat.

Answer 1

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