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Subject:
"Macromedia flash player" and other pops up
Category: Computers Asked by: vaac-ga List Price: $2.00 |
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10 Jun 2004 10:24 PDT
Expires: 10 Jul 2004 10:24 PDT Question ID: 359244 |
Whenever I go to jpost and during its usage a screen asking me to load down"Macromedia flash player" pops up. Wile this can be deleted it is a nuisance to do this every time. Other screens also pop up and have no "x" or "e" through which they can be deleted. How do I delete these and how do I stop "Macromedia flash player" from poping up. What is "Macromedia flash player" ? I am using windows 98 & Inrenet Explorer. |
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Re: "Macromedia flash player" and other pops up
Answered By: belindalevez-ga on 14 Jun 2004 04:56 PDT Rated: |
<Those annoying pop-ups can be stopped by installing pop-up blocking software. A free pop-up blocker can be downloaded from Panic Ware. A hand symbol will be installed onto your toolbar. You just need to double click on the hand to enable or disable the pop-up stopper. The hand will appear white when the blocker is enabled and grey when it is disabled. http://www.panicware.com/product_psfree.html For those really annoying pop ups that have no x to turn them off or those that completely block out your screen you can use Alt and F4 to get rid of them. If your tool bar is not blocked out you can also turn off pop-ups via the tool bar. The web pages currently open will be displayed on the bottom right of your tool bar. If you right click on the box associated with a page, it will come to the front of the screen. A menu will then appear which gives you the option to close the page. Right click on close and the page will disappear. http://groups.msn.com/CommunityFeedback/tipstricks.msnw?action=get_message&mview=1&ID_Message=421504&CType=1&CDir=1> <Search strategy:> <"pop ups" "no x"> <://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22pop+ups%22+%22no+x%22> <"pop up stopper" "free edition"> <://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=%22pop+up+stopper%22+%22free+edition%22> <Hope this helps.> | |
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Panicware is so poorly understandable and impossible to follow that rather than beating this dead horse more, and in the course wasting time and getting nowhere, I am rating and abandoning this question. |
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Re: "Macromedia flash player" and other pops up
From: ac67-ga on 10 Jun 2004 11:18 PDT |
Macromedia Flash Player is a program which is needed to run animated web content. I have found it to be annoying though, since it seems to add little to web pages, and is used quite often for advertising which is even more annoying than the pop-up box asking to install Flash Player, or for animated intros to websites which are unnecessary and waste bandwidth, slowing down loading of the info you really want. There are a few websites which actually use this for something useful, but most of the time it is just an annoyance. So, you can install it, but be warned, once installed it is not easy to get rid of. Or you can put up with having to refuse to install each time (and some webpages will ask you 3 or 4 times, then ask again when you hit the back arrow back to the same page). Or there is a program called TurnFlash available at http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22947,00.asp which will put an icon in your system tray that you can toggle it on and off with. This way the site will not ask to install Flash Player, but it also will not work and annoy you, unless you toggle it on for the rare sites that really need it. |
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Re: "Macromedia flash player" and other pops up
From: icemanwol-ga on 11 Jun 2004 21:53 PDT |
Installing flash player is safe, but if you are on dial up it can be a bandwidth hog. To delete flash player, go to c:\windows\download program files and right click on the SHOCKWAVE FLASH OBJECT and go remove. |
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Re: "Macromedia flash player" and other pops up
From: vaac-ga on 13 Jun 2004 19:36 PDT |
Thank you, icemanwol-ga, for advising me how to delete macromedia flash player. However going to c:\windows\download program files does not give me SHOCKWAVE FLASH OBJECT. After playing around for quite a while I found that c:, windows, (show files),systen, (show files), macromedia does give me shockwaves. So does windows/system/macromedia in DOS. If I get to macromedia this way can I delete it with your suggested "rightclick - delete" in windows or with "deltree" in DOS? once deleted can I recover it if I ever need it, say from the win98 installation disk? Or would it be advisable to save macrpmedia and subdirectories to elsewhere using DOS's xcopy? |
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