adoben flash player won't download?????
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Posted by joplin5150 on August 2, 2008, 6:40 am
Please log in for more thread options tried many times to download adobe flash player and others but no luck. Does it have anything to do with the fact I was told that wininit.ini file was a trojan and to delete it, so I did ......How do I get it back and how do I get the dame flash player to down load. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by terryc on August 2, 2008, 7:58 am
Please log in for more thread options check that all the screws are tight. <well what other answer is applicable in a hardware group>
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Posted by Paul on August 2, 2008, 10:03 am
Please log in for more thread options joplin5150 wrote:
> I use to be able to watch you tube on my computer, but now I can't.I have
> tried many times to download adobe flash player and others but no luck. Does > it have anything to do with the fact I was told that wininit.ini file was a > trojan and to delete it, so I did ......How do I get it back and how do I get > the dame flash player to down load. > I had some fun with this as well. I was running an 8 version of Flash, and got an "alert" message at login, that Flash needed to be updated. (The alert was months late, as the release in question didn't come out yesterday.) I tried using the "web based" update, and the download of 9.0.124.0 would proceed, and then a message would come up "failed to authenticate". Implying that the checksum (or certificate or whatever), wasn't working. I tried looking for support info, but that didn't get me anywhere. So I decided to look for a standalone installer, something that could be completely downloaded, without any crappy "web" type issues. This is the page with some downloads. I took the file at the top, and for insurance, one uninstaller app from the bottom of the page. http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html ******* (42,283,226 bytes -- version 9.0.124.0) http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/updaters/9/flash_player_update6_flash9.zip When you unzip, there will be a Release folder. There are three files of interest in there. FlashPlayer.exe (Standalone player, like a media player. I didn't bother with this.) Install Flash Player 9 ActiveX.msi (this one installs Flash for IE) Install Flash Player 9 Plugin.msi (this one installs Flash for Firefox, or other "netscape" browsers) I also found an uninstaller, but I wouldn't bother with this, unless all else fails. I think I may have uninstalled the previous Flash using "Add/Remove", and then just used the two named .msi files above. http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe ******* I don't typically do a lot of Flash or movie playing, but figure I'd share what I learned by wasting my time with Adobe (and the lack of quality control at Macromedia). Since some hardware companies in Taiwan insist on using Flash, I needed Flash to work on at least one browser. I don't leave Flash working in Firefox. Once I ran the Plugin.msi installer and tested that it worked, I went to the plugins folder of Firefox, and removed NPSWF32.dll and NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe. In the URL bar in Firefox, you can type "about:plugins" to verify it is gone. In Internet Explorer, this page can be used to verify the version. http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_15507&sliceId=2 Version: Win 9,0,124,0 Debug Player: No Operating System: Windows 2000 Video Capable: Yes Audio Capable: Yes Local File I/O: Yes Good luck, Paul | |||||||||||||
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Posted by Tim on August 13, 2008, 3:00 am
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> I use to be able to watch you tube on my computer, but now I can't.I have
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> tried many times to download adobe flash player and others but no luck. D= > it have anything to do with the fact I was told that wininit.ini file was=
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> trojan and to delete it, so I did ......How do I get it back and how do I=
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> the dame flash player to down load.
I can't be sure it'll work in your case, but whenever I've had the problem of not being able to download Flash from the Adobe website, I go to the Mass. State Lottery website, www.masslottery.com Part of the page requires Flash to display properly, and prompts for a download of it. Give it about 15 seconds or so. This has consistently worked for me often enough that I routinely use this method of installing Flash for work (recycling old PCs, which includes fresh Windows installs plus necessary software for browsing). Hope this helps. | |||||||||||||
> the dame flash player to down load.