Adobe Items on Start Menu

I just installed Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.0. It put 2 items on the start menu. It didn't create a folder on the start menu named "Adobe" and then put the
m in that folder. It just litters the start menu with them. Who does Adobe think they are? When are they going to grow up and follow industry standards that have been around for years and put their stuff in a folder like it belongs? I had to manually create a folder, and move the 2 items into the folder. Then Adobe Updater ran, and duplicated the shortcuts back to the start menu. Agh!!!
Adobe Acrobot is like 30+ megs and does nothing but display PDF's. Firefox is like 6 megs and can display the entire internet. Why is it so bloated?

bedub1 wrote:
I just installed Adobe Acrobat Standard 9.0. It put 2 items on the start menu. It didn't create a folder on the start menu named "Adobe" and then put the
m in that folder. It just litters the start menu with them.
If you downloaded Reader alone (and not Air...etc), it would have added one item like anything else.
bedub1 wrote:
Adobe Acrobot is like 30+ megs and does nothing but display PDF's.
Firefox is like 6 megs and can display the entire internet. Why is it
so bloated?
Have you read the features?
If all you want to do is view and print PDF's then download Foxit Reader.

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