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| reply to Pentangle Re: adobe flashplayer helper 9 embedded in windows xp
said by Pentangle :Curious, I just searched my hard drive for settings.sol and it wasn't found in the search. I do have the flash plug-in and use the settings you've suggested in the Flash Settings Panel. Why would the file be missing? Maybe you or a cleaning app removed it?
At any rate, it's buried at 'Documents and Settings/[User]/Application Data/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys'.
If it's not there, it will be re-created once a Flash video asks you about storing data on your hard drive, or you make a change at the settings site online. |
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| said by Abie :
Maybe you or a cleaning app removed it? Yeah, maybe CCleaner removed it--even tho the new CCleaner version still refuses to show Flash in the applications window (although it does show it as a removable program in Tools/Uninstall).  When you get the Flash request to store data on the hard drive, do you allow if you feel the site is safe? -- Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryu Suzuki-roshi
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| said by Pentangle :. . When you get the Flash request to store data on the hard drive, do you allow if you feel the site is safe? Sure (10kb worth, anyway). If it's a site I'm visiting on a one-shot basis, negatory. But sites like YouTube, etc., that I'm at fairly regularly I allow. That prevents the annoyance of being asked at every video, and besides, I go to that 'sys' folder every week or two and clean 'em all out and start over. Keeps me from getting that 'not-so-fresh' feeling. 
Flash is a POS-- but it's not such a POS that I feel it necessary to ban it from my computer. I like watching videos online.  It would be nice if sites could use some other format (and/or provide generally better quality), but they don't. Therefore . . . .
said by La Luna :. . If you decline to use Adobe flashplayer or MS Silverlight, you will no longer be able to view any flash content/flash videos, it's as simple as that. The mere thought of such a horror has me all broken out in hives, Luna . . .  |
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  Pentangle With our thoughts we make the world. Premium join:2006-06-01 Vancouver BC | Tx Abie.  |
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