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CCleaner Removes Flash security settings?

Couldn't you just go into CCleaners settings: Applications/Multimedia and uncheck Macromedia Flash Player? That way it "should" not mess with Macromedia at all.
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reply to salzan
You could just un-check Macromedia Flash from the options in CCleaner.

Granted, it won't clean anything out of the program then, but also won't clean out the .sol files.

Edit: Parputt beat me to it!
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reply to salzan
I would say it's a problem with CCleaner. It looks like they are removing ALL .sol files.
They should only be removing .sol files in the #SharedObjects folder.
The settings.sol in the sys folder should not be removed.

reply to parputt

reply to anon101

Best bet would be to copy and rename the "settings.sol" file in sys folder to something like "settings.sol.bkup" and then run Crappy Cleaner to clean up all the files.
Restore the settings by copy and rename bkup to "settings.sol".
This should work until Crappy Cleaner gets fixed.
Try it out. Good luck.

was just a suggestion

You should really contact Crappy Cleaner about it. Seems like a minor fix to me. Shouldn't be too long until they release new fixed version.

In the meantime, good luck with whatever options you choose.

reply to salzan
I use CleanUp!. It's never messed with Flash settings.

»home.comcast.net/~sgould4567/sof···cleanup/

reply to salzan
I don't know what intrigues me more, your findings or the fact that I didn't have a clue that there were security settings for Macromedia flash that could (should?) be tweaked by the user. I'm off to find out more about these "settings."

EDIT: Ok, I see. duh... And in fact there is now a settings.sol file in the specified location. Cool. Thanks for the heads up.

FYI: Flash Player Settings Manager

reply to salzan
Heheh....yes. Some time go, I remember seeing the "Flash Player Settings Manager" referenced to above.

After seeing what I thought were some nice "Screen Shots" of the "manager", I remember thinking to myself..well, that's just fine and dandy, but where the heck is that darn thing located on my computer???

Then I realized you could make the actual setting changes right there on the Web Page.
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Yes thanks salzan ...I've actually looked around in there before too.
Can't remember why specifically, but I would venture to say that some people reading this thread may find, as we did, a bit more about the Flash settings than they knew existed!
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reply to salzan
Not sure what it is doing exactly, but after running CC and all files are removed, once I go to a Flash page(read Comcast.net Home), the SOL file is back in there.

Unsure if the settings are changed.

If you right click on any flash object on a given site the settings manager should pop up. Then a new folder is created and you create a profile for that particular site. The .sol file in the sys folder seems to be the global Flash settings. The only settings that are preserved for the individual sites seem to be the camera access settings. If you click on advanced in the little popup, it takes you to the Macromedia site where you can set more options but i'm confused as to whether or not they apply to the site you started out at.

Edit: I think flash recreates the sys .sol file as soon as you visit a Flash enabled site. However, if you've run CCleaner, the options are all set to default.

Eh, as long as I can play those stupid Pengu Flash games I'm cool!

Thanks salzan!