| All comments about acrotray.exe: |
 Markus Meyer | 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 |
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| AkTiVA | I can confim this informations.. |
| FishnFool | Installsed with Adobe Acrobat v6.0 Professional in my case See also: Link |
| john | Not dangerus at all. (If you have acrobat installed) |
| | its related to Adobe Acrobat... dont worry about it |
| Don | Came with Acrobat Professional 6.0 - doesn't cause any problems for me |
| Pascal | No probleme, not dangerous See also: Link |
| oblongo | parece ser que activa el Acrobat Distiller |
 gls2k | Have also Acrobat installed. |
| BoneDaddy13 | Part of Acrobat Writer package, it's annoying, but not dangerous |
| Matthias Fischer, NEXUS.Solutions | Harmlos und im Ruhezustand wenig Ressourcen verbrauchend. |
| Günther Brunthaler | Wird gestartet sobald man mit dem Acrobat-Drucker eine Datei erstellt. Beendet sich danach aber nicht von selbst sondern läuft weiter, was unnötig Ressourcen verschling. Tipp: Nach dem Drucken den Prozess einfach killen. Keine Gefahr: Bei Bedarf startet Acrobat den Prozess ohnehin wieder neu. Löschen sollte man das Executable aber nicht, da Acrobat PDF-Drucker sonst nicht mehr funktioniert. Somit: Harmlos, aber ärgerlich dass sich das Ding nicht selber beendet wenn man es nicht mehr braucht (PDFs druckt). |
 Jager | Installed Full Acrobat, can't get acrotray to STOP loading, but I always Kill the task anyway, and Acrobat still functions fine. |
| Purple Sweater | I think is causing some issues with locking files when trying to copy them to a server, but am still investigating it. |
| Kelly | It's essential for printing PDFs using Acrobat--without it, the application won't work! |
 algol | I've installed Acrobat Distiller and removed acrotray and everything is going fine. |
| Jeff | Essential part of Acrobat if you want to use the Acrobat Distiller print driver (i.e., print directly to PDF from other applications). |
| | lots of tools to identify wht and how this exe operates....severe......damn Adobe.... |
| saz | If it is disabled, you cannot create pdf files directly from Office appications. |
| giorgarasb1 | Is it ok if I stop this from running on start up? e-mail me pls |
| mt2ri | 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. |
| Jabbaa | Dont remove if you wanna create PDF in MS Office or AutoCAD, because they wont work!! |
| cdh | Not dangerous, not critical for Acrobat either. Just more bloatware from Adobe. |
| Daemon | 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) |
| GJG | Locks up opening Acrobat to print for me using Acrobat 6 Pro. Printing starts working fine once the application gets shut down. |
| Annuvin | I believe it clashes with Lotus Notes sometimes, and causes Notes to crash. This has happened to me multiple times. |
| | not dangerous, that I know of... but it autostarts with windows... using up precious MAMORY! |
| Pacs | Unnötiger Helper für Adobe Distiler/Acrobat/PDF-Printer - "telefoniert" aber gerne nachhause |
| barbara | 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. |
| Levendis | Essential element of Adobe Writer |
| Jef Hart | It eats up memory and doesn't work with XP 64-bit edition |
| Justin | I get an error when I try and convert a file to PDF using Acrobat 8 3D |
| Hippynz | 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 |
| | spyware from adobe |
| luevelein | Wird getartet, wenn der PC hochfährt, da er in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\run als Wert eingetragen ist. Soll dieser nicht bei Systemstart mitgestartet werden, den Eintrag aus der Registy löschen. |
| TheLateMrKiller | 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 |
| dudley | Has caused AutoCAD to crash while making a pdf. Lost all of my work! |
| rob | can cause screensaver not to work in windows xp sp2 |
| Tucker | 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. |
| Rasmus Hansen | Used to print MS Office files to Adobe Acrobat. Disable it if you do not use the function. If you do, leave it running. |
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