| All comments about acrotray.exe: |
 | 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 |
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| I can confim this informations.. AkTiVA |
| Installsed with Adobe Acrobat v6.0 Professional in my case See also: Link FishnFool |
| Not dangerus at all. (If you have acrobat installed) john |
| its related to Adobe Acrobat... dont worry about it |
| Came with Acrobat Professional 6.0 - doesn't cause any problems for me Don |
| No probleme, not dangerous See also: Link Pascal |
| parece ser que activa el Acrobat Distiller oblongo |
 | Have also Acrobat installed. gls2k |
| Part of Acrobat Writer package, it's annoying, but not dangerous BoneDaddy13 |
 | Installed Full Acrobat, can't get acrotray to STOP loading, but I always Kill the task anyway, and Acrobat still functions fine. Jager |
| I think is causing some issues with locking files when trying to copy them to a server, but am still investigating it. Purple Sweater |
| It's essential for printing PDFs using Acrobat--without it, the application won't work! Kelly |
 | I've installed Acrobat Distiller and removed acrotray and everything is going fine. algol |
| Essential part of Acrobat if you want to use the Acrobat Distiller print driver (i.e., print directly to PDF from other applications). Jeff |
| lots of tools to identify wht and how this exe operates....severe......damn Adobe.... |
| If it is disabled, you cannot create pdf files directly from Office appications. saz |
| Is it ok if I stop this from running on start up? e-mail me pls giorgarasb1 |
| 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 |
| Dont remove if you wanna create PDF in MS Office or AutoCAD, because they wont work!! Jabbaa |
| Not dangerous, not critical for Acrobat either. Just more bloatware from Adobe. cdh |
| 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 |
| Locks up opening Acrobat to print for me using Acrobat 6 Pro. Printing starts working fine once the application gets shut down. GJG |
| I believe it clashes with Lotus Notes sometimes, and causes Notes to crash. This has happened to me multiple times. Annuvin |
| not dangerous, that I know of... but it autostarts with windows... using up precious MAMORY! |
| 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 |
| Essential element of Adobe Writer Levendis |
| It eats up memory and doesn't work with XP 64-bit edition Jef Hart |
| I get an error when I try and convert a file to PDF using Acrobat 8 3D Justin |
| 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 |
| spyware from adobe |
| 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 |
| Has caused AutoCAD to crash while making a pdf. Lost all of my work! dudley |
| can cause screensaver not to work in windows xp sp2 rob |
| 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 |
| 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 |
 | ... has caused MSN to crash unexpectedly. Resource HOG SafeBoy |
| 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 |
| Bonjour Service |
| Part of Adobe Acrobat EJ |
| adobe version cue |
| 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 |
| acrotray .exe (space after acrotray) was a virus downloaded to my computer by an infected ad ubes |
| 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 |
| i installed adobe reader 9 and after restart, acrotray got my whole cpu and hanged my computer! Roshan |
| "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 |
| Installed with Adobe Acrobat 9.0 Professional full version , harmless Hellster |
| Not much, only that it has opened itself more than 400 times, and took my whole CPU Tom |
| linked to or taken over by vista home security along with wmpscfgs. adds tasks in vista task scheduler to run every minute 24/7. |
| 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 |
| Can be masked virus. To remove it? see here: http://ithelp.at.ua/publ/acrotray_oshibka/1-1-0-11 See also: Link Alexander |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| perfect excellent. no problem w me. tony magno |
| this file consumes a lot of CPU power. sometimes i have to simply walk away and get a cup of coffee christo |
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