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Help! Flash Movie Player Mess.
My Fevered Brain | 12-04-02 | LibKill

Posted on 12/04/2002 3:16:55 PM PST by LibKill

I installed Flash Movie player when I installed Internet Explorer. Okay stuff, funny animations and some games are done in Flash.

Now the problem. Some idiot came up with Flash Movie advertisements. These hover over the newly opened web page. You can't see the page until they are over, also they play loud music and announcements. TV Guide is the worst, they have a 5 minute job for "24" and it plays every time you update the page to see what's coming on next.

Enough is enough said I. I went to uninstall Flash Movie Player. Surprise! It does not show in the Add/Remove programs menu. Even Norton can't find it.

I went to Macromedia's home page and got their uninstaller. It did nothing.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this or disable it?


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: flash; internetads; macromedia; techindex

1 posted on 12/04/2002 3:16:55 PM PST by LibKill
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To: *tech_index
A little help, please?
2 posted on 12/04/2002 3:17:21 PM PST by LibKill
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; sourcery; Sparta; Mathlete; Apple Pan Dowdy; grundle; beckett; billorites
Guys, I'm dying here.
3 posted on 12/04/2002 3:30:42 PM PST by LibKill
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To: LibKill
Flash is deployed as an ActiveX control (an *.ocx) file. On my system, it is located at \winnt\system32\macromed\flash.ocx.

If all else fails, you can simply delete this file, although it would be better to remove its bindings from the registry (using RegEdit). The registry key for Flash is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Macromedia\Flash
4 posted on 12/04/2002 4:33:47 PM PST by sourcery
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To: sourcery
Thanks!

I am going to wait a little while longer and see what other solutions are posted, but you are #1 with a bullet!

5 posted on 12/04/2002 4:46:59 PM PST by LibKill
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To: LibKill
I don't have any solution.

But I could ask how to avoid that bad happenning!

Sourcery's solution seems to make sense!


6 posted on 12/04/2002 6:54:06 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: LibKill
If you have sufficient hard drive space, download a different broweser, such as Mozilla. Use IE when you want to use plug ins like Flash or Real, use Mozilla when you don't want to be bothered by pop-up ads or want to limit cookies. That way you will still have access to Flash when you want it. The browsers will initially fight over who gets to be default, but they will eventually settle down to the roles that you assign.
7 posted on 12/04/2002 7:36:37 PM PST by PAR35
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