reader_sl.exe

by Adobe
Application Support

Summary

Adobe Reader Speed Launcher - preloads Adobe Reader components at startup for faster PDF opening.

reader_sl.exe is the 509th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 11,169 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader and it is most often launched by AdobeARM.exe.

509th
most commonly executed Windows program
11,169
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Acrobat Reader DC\Reader90.63%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 11.0\Reader7.53%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader1.51%
  • C:\Program Files (x86)\Adobe\Reader 9.0\Reader0.32%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • a8f964bb1623295131320f9a0a3817c5ea9318485c849ac5dcbf0255c9263dea67.02%
  • 8bed44823706382b3848534e1cc9d26d90511d1f195fc08f6be0045f415377ce9.35%
  • 5d7f7d7e999bd5a4dd0d31d5dffc325e53f52496b14d2da179192fdb149dcf0a7.69%
  • 80b8fbc52783610f73c305ab8d502adb497754c0eadb19bab49b2ef191d4b05f4.22%
  • 2d0b45fa608dd8336722d85be930bb0d271fc407230a6f5082fdb3b058f671191.98%
  • 07aac8a8d1a10ab9763c25c0762d82e657969d37f9794937fdcc5f580b0e220a1.55%
  • 3a7c9a57415eba012aa5ef8a9b5380734325fe5a52678c9e66f7a464570347fa1.52%
  • c4eb2df64ba3cabbe1de24936d0c7f09324cc7b355eabd2f4ec6f0bd7526162e1.32%
  • 74b4856edbf9bf8127cc1a4a76d01a1ddb9d536406324a2dee1cee9f5c2699541.07%
  • 7fa3bdd3fe2bb536e44488a975d67d63b9ced77d9707ccbcefb17de8e0d562b70.87%

Process Ancestry

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Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.