Adobe Flash Player Re-Install

[anaxcrosswords]

Hoping to solve YouTube problems I downloaded and tried to install the latest AFP, but made the mistake of not first removing the old one and rebooting. When I tried the install I got the “Not responding and needs to close down” message.
I’m now nervous about removing/rebooting because if I get the same error I’ve got no AFP at all, and something is better than nothing!
Anyone aware of problems installing the latest AFP onto Win XP?

[HansUrbancka]

Sorry..I thought you were using Chrome when you said.." Have got Chrome, pinky, but it's pitifully slow."

I shall be interested to hear what Chris may have to say about the following add-on for Firefox. :-

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-without-flash/

Hans.



Hans.

[HansUrbancka]

As a point of interest. I have disabled, temporarilly, my Shockwave flash and, having downloaded the above Add-on, I find that it works alright on YouTube.

Hans.

[anaxcrosswords]

That’s interesting. First thing I noticed was the ‘doesn’t work on YouTube’ bit. And seeing as I don’t appear to have Shock Wave anyway…

[anaxcrosswords]

It installed, but no improvement on YT.
Unfortunately, having removed Flash Player (and unable to install) I can't now watch non-YT videos on eg Facebook.
Going to go and get a hammer from the shed, give it some Clarkson.

[anaxcrosswords]

chkdsk seems to have been completed in about the same time as bootup. I gave it 5 minutes and started to watch the football - by the time I came back to it my desktop had loaded.
Went to Admin Tools... can you believe the folder is empty?

[tonyav]

Try it out, anax.

[anaxcrosswords]

The hammer? I'm tempted.

[tonyav]

Gawd blimey, hope you get sorted soon, anax. So you can post on Mamya's thread.
Don't give it any 'Clarkson'.

[anaxcrosswords]

A quick update on this – it’s been a while!
Took the plunge today and bought a Lenovo tower with 8Gb RAM. It turns out my main problem isn’t XP as such; biggest one is having fibre optic broadband. The speed of data transfer is too much for an old PC with modest processor (mine is 1.5Gb) to handle comfortably. If I'd stuck with the old standard broadband I wouldn't have had so many difficulties with video.
The new tower will be for internet and music/video only. Am keeping the old XP for work stuff. My recently discovered Macclesfield-based techie pointed out a clever little box that allows you to run two systems using one monitor. All you do is press a button to toggle between them. Nice!