Fat City Premium Member join:2003-03-10 Freedonia |
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Re: Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.257Libra, from my experience, the new combo-download installs both versions---32 and 64 bit. I used to use the old 32-bit installer which would only install flash in the C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash folder. With this new installer, I also get flash in the C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash folder of my Win7 64-bit OS. I verified that Flash is now active in both my 32 and 64 bit browsers. There seems to be no way to avoid the double installation of Flash. |
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Libra Premium Member join:2003-08-06 USA |
Libra
Premium Member
2012-Jun-13 4:07 pm
Thank you Fat City. I'm not happy about that since I only use 32bit browsers on those computers (although I believe they both have 64bit IE's installed). Is it then necessary to find and use the Flash uninstaller?
I wish they wouldn't complicate things.
Sincerely, Libra |
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Fat City Premium Member join:2003-03-10 Freedonia |
Fat City
Premium Member
2012-Jun-13 4:17 pm
Libra, the uninstaller will remove both versions (I tried that while I was playing around with different versions). I suppose you could open your 64-bit browser and disable the Flash plugin if you wanted to. For me, it's not a big deal, and I'll leave both of them as they are. Originally, I was just curious about the workings of this new installer; now I know. |
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Libra Premium Member join:2003-08-06 USA |
Libra
Premium Member
2012-Jun-13 5:40 pm
Thank you again, Fat City, for finding that out. I'm waiting for the problem with Firefox to be fixed before I update it.
Meanwhile, I was looking for the Macromed folder in System32. I found it in my 32bit Vista computer, but when I looked in Win7 64bit, Macromed was located in the sysWOW folder. I did show Flash to be 32 bit though.
Sincerely, Libra |
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47717768 (banned) join:2003-12-08 Birmingham, AL 1 edit |
47717768 (banned)
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2012-Jun-13 5:49 pm
If Vista is 32bit flavor that's correct or you may have installed a Flash Player 32bit version only. |
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Libra Premium Member join:2003-08-06 USA |
Libra
Premium Member
2012-Jun-14 11:26 am
I was surprised to see the Flash32 in the sysWOW64 file in the Win7 64bit computers since I installed only Flash 32 in them and expected to see it in System32\macromed.
Sincerely, Libra |
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In a 64 bit computer, all 64 bit files/libraries goes to SYS2 and all the 32 bits goes to SYSWOW64. So yes, you will see the 32 bit flash player in SysWow64\macromed. |
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therube join:2004-11-11 Randallstown, MD |
> SYS2 Sysnative perhaps. File System RedirectorThe %windir%\System32 directory is reserved for 64-bit applications. Most DLL file names were not changed when 64-bit versions of the DLLs were created, so 32-bit versions of the DLLs are stored in a different directory. WOW64 hides this difference by using a file system redirector. In most cases, whenever a 32-bit application attempts to access %windir%\System32, the access is redirected to %windir%\SysWOW64. |
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