Trying to increase the speed of a Windows system typically involves disabling Services, removing items from the Startup menu and deleting Registry entries under Run, in both the Current User and Local Machine trees. The latter bit is what was missing when working on 64-bit systems.
After noticing that the pesky Acrobat Speed Launcher and other usual suspects were missing from the Run locations I ran a registry search for reader_sl.exe and with little delay was presented with the location below, which also hosted all it's resource sapping pals as well.
HKLM\Software\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Note: As always, the Registry can be a dangerous place, so do a backup/export before making changes.
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