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Process name: AcroTray

Product: AcroTray - Adobe Acrobat Distiller helper application.

Company: Adobe Systems Inc.

File: acrotray.exe

Security Rating: 1


"acrotray.exe" is the Adobe Acrobat Distiller helper application. It is used as part of the full Adobe Acrobat product to convert documents into PDF files. http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/acrotray.exe.html 

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Average user rating of acrotray.exe: 4 based on 84 votes. Read also the 57 reviews.

3183 users ask for this file. 49 users rated it as not dangerous. 5 users rated it as not so dangerous. 13 users rated it as neutral. 6 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 11 users rated it as dangerous. 7 users didn't rate it ("don't know").


All comments about acrotray.exe:
rate0 This background task is installed when you install the full version of Adobe Acrobat. It comes into action when you create PDF files from non Adobe applications through the "Watched Folders" feature of Acrobat Distiller.  See also: Link   Markus Meyer
rate1  See also: Link  
rate1 I can confim this informations..   AkTiVA
rate1 Installsed with Adobe Acrobat v6.0 Professional in my case  See also: Link   FishnFool
rate1 Not dangerus at all. (If you have acrobat installed)   john
rate1 its related to Adobe Acrobat... dont worry about it  
rate1 Came with Acrobat Professional 6.0 - doesn't cause any problems for me   Don
rate1 No probleme, not dangerous  See also: Link   Pascal
rate1 parece ser que activa el Acrobat Distiller   oblongo
rate2 Have also Acrobat installed.   gls2k
rate1 Part of Acrobat Writer package, it's annoying, but not dangerous   BoneDaddy13
rate3 Installed Full Acrobat, can't get acrotray to STOP loading, but I always Kill the task anyway, and Acrobat still functions fine.   Jager
rate3 I think is causing some issues with locking files when trying to copy them to a server, but am still investigating it.   Purple Sweater
rate1 It's essential for printing PDFs using Acrobat--without it, the application won't work!   Kelly
rate5 I've installed Acrobat Distiller and removed acrotray and everything is going fine.   algol
rate1 Essential part of Acrobat if you want to use the Acrobat Distiller print driver (i.e., print directly to PDF from other applications).   Jeff
rate5 lots of tools to identify wht and how this exe operates....severe......damn Adobe....  
rate1 If it is disabled, you cannot create pdf files directly from Office appications.   saz
rate1 Is it ok if I stop this from running on start up? e-mail me pls   giorgarasb1
rate3 If you have both Adobe Acrobat Professional & Reader installed on your PC & if this file is running [Task Manager / Processes] it can force Adobe Acrobat Reader to open pdf’s even though you are trying to open the file for editing with Professional. A real pain, you have ‘End Process’ in task manager to get Adobe Professional to work properly.   mt2ri
rate1 Dont remove if you wanna create PDF in MS Office or AutoCAD, because they wont work!!   Jabbaa
rate1 Not dangerous, not critical for Acrobat either. Just more bloatware from Adobe.   cdh
rate1 If you stop acrotray.exe at startup and print through the Adobe PDF print driver, acrotray.exe will start again which will allow you to make the PDF correctly. If you never create PDFs, just disable it. (I'm using Adobe Acrobat 3D)   Daemon
rate3 Locks up opening Acrobat to print for me using Acrobat 6 Pro. Printing starts working fine once the application gets shut down.   GJG
rate3 I believe it clashes with Lotus Notes sometimes, and causes Notes to crash. This has happened to me multiple times.   Annuvin
rate1 not dangerous, that I know of... but it autostarts with windows... using up precious MAMORY!  
rate1 it is spawning acr tmp files on my C: drive and has taken up to 5.5 GB before I figured out to delete them and kill acrotray.exe !!! Checking to see if I have a bad version.   barbara
rate1 Essential element of Adobe Writer   Levendis
rate1 It eats up memory and doesn't work with XP 64-bit edition   Jef Hart
rate2 I get an error when I try and convert a file to PDF using Acrobat 8 3D   Justin
rate0 Relates to Acrobat Distiller. I disabled it and can still create PDFs from MS Word (it starts again) so if you do not create many PDFs stop it running a startup, if you create lots of PDFs let it start   Hippynz
rate5 spyware from adobe  
rate1 I stopped a .dll from loading and acrotray kept popping up to tell me that it couldn't start b/c of that. if it isn't neccesary just search for it and rename the extension to stop the annoyance   TheLateMrKiller
rate2 Has caused AutoCAD to crash while making a pdf. Lost all of my work!   dudley
rate3 can cause screensaver not to work in windows xp sp2   rob
rate1 Came with Acrobat Pro but caused startup issues and froze my taskbar every so often during startup. Disabled it and everything works fine with taskbar now.   Tucker
rate1 Used to print MS Office files to Adobe Acrobat. Disable it if you do not use the function. If you do, leave it running.   Rasmus Hansen
rate4 ... has caused MSN to crash unexpectedly. Resource HOG   SafeBoy
rate1 The acrotray.exe process allow you to create pdf format documents from any application. It watches a folder and any files saved into the folder are instantly converted to pdf. If you use the 'watched folders' feature of adobe acrobat you will need this process running for them to work correctly.  See also: Link   Andy
rate0 Bonjour Service  
rate1 Part of Adobe Acrobat   EJ
rate0 adobe version cue  
rate1 If you need to conserve memory while you are not creating PDFs, disable it. It starts automatically when you need to create a PDF.   Ranium
rate5 acrotray .exe (space after acrotray) was a virus downloaded to my computer by an infected ad   ubes
rate4 damn persistant - running in program files\adobe . 2 programs acrotray .exe and acrotray.exe ,removed from startup and deleted these files ut on reboot they come back.this is bad killed it only by replacing files with notepad rename in same location for both files machine originally had a bad infection all virus sniffers did nothing for these acro files   DRx
rate4 i installed adobe reader 9 and after restart, acrotray got my whole cpu and hanged my computer!   Roshan
rate1 "Hijack This" showed the acrotray.exe file in the following item: O4 - Global Startup: Acrobat Assistant.lnk = D:\Arquivos de programas\Adobe\Acrobat 5.0\Distillr\AcroTray.exe. I have the other opinions about this file here, but ignored those who suggested that Acrobat Distiller would not work without it. So it deleted it through "Hijack This", and the result was that the Acrobat Distiller printer would not work anymore - would give an error and the programs through which I was to print failed / were blocked. I needed to uninstall the Acrobat Reader and reinstall the Acrobat Distiller again.   Manfred Molz
rate1 Installed with Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional full version , harmless   Hellster
rate5 Not much, only that it has opened itself more than 400 times, and took my whole CPU   Tom
rate5 linked to or taken over by vista home security along with wmpscfgs. adds tasks in vista task scheduler to run every minute 24/7.  
rate0 I run a Ouad PC, 4GiGs Ram, Crossfire, Cards. Seems twice now it has caused me to loose my connection while on line. It useses a fair amount of memory, and its a pity Adobe doesn't change its behaviour, but I guess they never will. Not a welcome pest in this day and age. Might find myself a different reader that isn't so greedy.   Rob
rate4 Can be masked virus. To remove it? see here: http://ithelp.at.ua/publ/acrotray_oshibka/1-1-0-11  See also: Link   Alexander
rate4 Safe but does not need to run at start up. I turned it off, tried to print to adobe pdf printer, the program started and printed fine without issue.   Jim.B.
rate1 Not dangerous:There is a trick for getting around it if you are using the Full Trial Version of Adobe Acrobat and it has Expired. You can end the process in the Task Manager every time you wish to create a PDF instead having to quit (the pop-up page that asks for a software key or quit.) You can also make PDF binders and more using the same workaround.   JimmyLegs
rate2 perfect excellent. no problem w me.   tony magno
rate0 this file consumes a lot of CPU power. sometimes i have to simply walk away and get a cup of coffee   christo
rate1 Acrobat  

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