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.
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.
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.
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 "aboutlugins" to verify it is gone.
In Internet Explorer, this page can be used to verify the version.
On Aug 2, 6:40*am, "joplin5150" <u45207@uwe> 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 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).
adoben flash player won't download????? 
lugins" to verify it is gone.
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