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Webmaster Forum / Flash / General Flash Topics / July 2008100 ADOBE messages A DAY -- CAN'T TURN THEM OFF
:disgust; sTARTING LAST WEEK i AM GETTING ABOUT 100 MESSAGES EVERY DAY TELLING ME fLASH PLAYER WON'T INSTALL. Before this I got maybe 20 messages a day telling me some web site was trying to install it. Looking at the TechNotes on this, I am buffaloed. There is NO WAY I can understand and follow them. One says I am in "serious trouble" if I even try. Hell of a way to make satisfied customers! Just tell me how to turn off these messages. I don't even know what a "flash player" is or does and I've gotten along just fine without it for 20 years! Sorry. No idea why the post went through 3 times. Hard to begin troubleshooting your issue without information regarding your platform, OS, browser.  SignatureAdobe Certified Expert www.keyframer.com www.mudbubble.com ----------------------------------- (if you want to email me, don't look) - > :disgust; > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > player" is or does and I've gotten along just fine without it for 20 > years! Hi Chris: Thanks for replying. I use a COMPAQ Presario with 512MB memory with WINDOWS XP home edition version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 Build 2600 and IE 7.0.5730.13 I printed tn_19166 and tried it w/o success. I printed tn_19148 but could not understand it. I printed fb1634cb -- it referred me to tn_15511 which says "don't use me, I'm obsolete." fb1634cb has warning messages which scare me too much to use. I have no idea if I have "administrator privileges" or not. I am the only user on the machine since its purchase many moons ago. Apparently some web sites use flashplayer. But its use does not seem to be essential (at least for me). Maybe there is a way to just block the requests to install from the web sites? Thanks The Flash Player is the most downloaded plugin in internet history for some time now (Flash version 4?). over 94% of the world has version 9: http://www.adobe.com/products/player_census/flashplayer/version_penetration.html About 98% and over have some version of the player installed. I would venture to say a majority of websites have some Flash content somewhere on them (if not all Flash). That said, if you want to avoid watching anything Flash-related across the entire web: Try googling "turn off flash player". Some suggest disabling plugins via the browser. You can uninstall the Flash player as well through Add/Remove programs (windows). Or find the plugins folder for your browser and delete the flash player. or: http://www.velocityreviews.com/forums/t9979-how-to-temporarily-disable-flash-pla yer.html SignatureAdobe Certified Expert www.keyframer.com www.mudbubble.com ----------------------------------- (if you want to email me, don't look) - > Hi Chris: > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > > Thanks Looked over all you referred to. I don't want to turn off flash player. I don't have it installed! What I want to do is prevent web sites from trying to install it. Every time they do, the error message referring me to tn_19166 appears. This happens about 100 times a day! More if I use the internet a lot. John Have you followed all the instructions in that technote: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19166&sliceId=2 Are you trying to download/install it but having issues or are you ignoring it because you don't want it? Ignoring the prompt to install will not make it go away - in many cases it is the developer of the flash content who has implemented a flash detection scheme. I don't really have an answer as to how you can not have the player installed, browse the web all day and not have websites prompt you to download the player plugin needed to view the sites. It's kimd of like driving toll roads all day but wanting to avoid paying the tolls as you glide on through - maybe a bad anaology but the point is, flash is ubiquitous and is a web technology saturating the majority of sites - it's unavoidable and if you want to minimize it you might have to install it then block it - try doing that and use Mozilla Firefox which has a flash plugin blocker. hope this helps. SignatureAdobe Certified Expert www.keyframer.com www.mudbubble.com ----------------------------------- (if you want to email me, don't look) - > Looked over all you referred to. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > John "Have you followed all the instructions in that technote: http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_19166&sliceId=2" Yes. As far as they will work. Which is not far. "Are you trying to download/install it but having issues or are you ignoring it because you don't want it?" I have tried both options. I don't mind having it installed but I can't figure out how to make it happen. Having it ignored is also an option. "I don't really have an answer as to how you can not have the player installed, browse the web all day and not have websites prompt you to download the player plugin needed to view the sites." OK, I understand that. So it looks as if I SHOULD install it. If I could, I would. "if you want to minimize it you might have to install it then block it - try doing that and use Mozilla Firefox which has a flash plugin blocker." I am just a dumb user. I don't know a "Firefox" from my left big toe. My experience has been that whenever someone tells me "just get and install WHATSIT from WHOEVER, when I do so bad things always happen. What I have, works. Not well sometimes -- the frequent Flash install error messages are a new thing -- but I can live with them. I install new s/w only very seldom and very carefully and only after tinking through whether (or not) I really need it. Most of the time I decide on the status quo. Funny thing. Once I was a "computer guru." I could (and did) program rings around other people on the IBM 650, 704, 1620. In 1961 I even wrote what may be the very first computer baseball simulation program on the IBM 1620. In 20,000 positions (not bytes) of memory! But the technology has become a soup bucket, and keeping up no longer worth my time and effort. Now I'm just a dumb user. Sheeesh! <grin> I appreciate your responses, even if (so far) they have not solved the problem. John (Burgy) hope this helps. The best way to set it up so that it stops bothering you (is that what you're trying to do?) Is to install it, and if you're using IE 7. you can get into "manage add-ons" and disable it. If you're using ie6, you can set the kill bits manually in the registry. I've done it myself, it does work. Thanks, Davexnet: You wrote: "The best way to set it up so that it stops bothering you (is that what you're trying to do?) Is to install it, and if you're using IE 7. you can get into "manage add-ons" and disable it." My problem is that I CAN'T install it. "If you're using ie6, you can set the kill bits manually in the registry. I've done it myself, it does work. " Now THAT is scarey! Like doing heart surgery! See my next post however. This might sound a bit funny but it is true you need to first uninstall it somehow it has become damaged and will not let you update it, it has happened to me you can download the uninstaller here:- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.ex e Thanks, Ray_Lea: You wrote: "This might sound a bit funny but it is true you need to first uninstall it somehow it has become damaged and will not let you update it, it has happened to me you can download the uninstaller here:- http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall" Although Flsah does not appear on my PROGRAMS report, I followed this link. When I ran it it reported that it had run successfully and that certain files (I did not make a note of them) had been deleted. Perhaps the problem HAS been solved! Thank you for the help. John (who is not Hoss Radbourne, but admires his baseball record) Delete the current player from add remove and install the latest one, restart and enjoy. [q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]CHAOS'|nc.[/b][/b][/i] Delete the current player from add remove and install the latest one, restart and enjoy.[/q] That was the first thing I tried. But Add/Remove did not show a reference to the player. But the recent (3 posts up) suggestion to run a particular program to uninstall apparently did the job. At least for now. Thanks. John |
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