Why am I getting the MS info bar warning for flash content all of the sudden?
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here goes.
I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions/ideas on this. It seems as if overnight many of the flash sites I have built or manage are now displaying that pesky MS info bar saying "This site might require the following ActiveX control: Macromedia Flash Player 7" I did some searches and discovered it is due to XP SP2. Heres a link: [URL=http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?event=view&id=KC.tn_19479&extid=tn_19479&dialogID=3831659&iterationID=2&sessionID=96302e0a1620c$3F$3F$&stateID=1%200%2023240725&mode=simple ]Macromedia Technote[/URL]
Occasionally I can see some Flash content now without the warning but upon right clicking on it it says it is Flash 5. Does anyone know why this happened al of the sudden? I did a windows update, but was already running XP sp2. I develop flash content and am afraid users who get the same warning will not want to click the warning to install. Did my computer go nuts and forget it has Flash 7 installed? Or is this just MS overthinking for us again. Thanks.
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bja888 (not verified) posted this at 10:33 — 2nd March 2005.
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1st off I want to say "Windows sucks". Sirvice pack 2 is the worst thing since windows crashed when bill gates was presenting it. The bar should only show up when you are "working offline". Web content is not blocked. The simplest way for you to get around that is switch your primary browser. I recomend FireFox.
thinkpixels posted this at 18:07 — 2nd March 2005.
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Yes I know Windows has it's issues, but as a web developer I also am aware it makes up 90% of my audience, Firefox about 2%. So with that being said if this is happening to 90% of my audience, this problem could become a huge deterant of them looking at our companies websites. I was not asking for a better browser (I already use firefox), I was looking for a solution to the problem I described. Thanks.
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 19:16 — 2nd March 2005.
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I have only seen the proublem when working offline. There for it shouldent effect your audience unless u want them to download your web site to view it.
thinkpixels posted this at 21:41 — 2nd March 2005.
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My problem is occurring while surfing sites I manage. I am aware of the offline problem and fixed that a long time ago. Somehow all flash content was being played by the Flash 5 plug-in, even though I not only have the Flash 7 plug-in but MX2004 which installs Flash in every browser for you. It seems that some upgrade I did, uninstalled my flash 7 plug-in, has anyone else heard of this happening? Or is it just an isolated case? Thanks.
bja888 (not verified) posted this at 23:08 — 2nd March 2005.
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I think it might be just your computer. I am up to date on all my updates as of this week end. I am useing XP Pro. I just used IE on my web sites and its all playing in Player 7. I also have MX 2004. I am proubaly going to reformat this weekend because all the updates are messing up my computer. All I wanted sirvice pack 2 for was USB 2.0 drivers. I will just burn those to cd and reformat and never get SP2.
dk01 posted this at 03:57 — 3rd March 2005.
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I hate to mention it. I know sp2 created some problems with IE, but recommending that someone should not install sp2 is probably not the best advice. SP2 has some seriously important updates that patch vulnerabilities. Not going with it leaves you open to rooting, svhost attacks etc. I know it may cause problems but installing windows xp sp2 IS good. This is all IMO of course
As for your problem I think you found the right solution. At least you know you are safer off than before!
-dk
thinkpixels posted this at 04:22 — 3rd March 2005.
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Yes dk01, I agree. Plus if you have been to Microsoft's site lately they are now stating they will soon no longer support anything less the sp1 and sp2. So those who don't update will be out of luck in the future. Btw have you ever experienced the problem I mention that started this thread?
Thnx.
dk01 posted this at 06:48 — 3rd March 2005.
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Thinkpixel yes I heard the same thing about them only supporting sp1 and up. I installed sp2 on an sp1 machine and it had issues. I don't recall the problem you mentioned but I do know that I had winRar installed and it caused my explorer to stall whenever I right clicked on a rar file.
I decided instead that of installing sp2 over sp1 it would be more efficient to install sp2 right from the beginning. I got my hands on an Windows install disk that has sp2 precompiled into it. I beleive the phrase is "slipstreamed". You can create your own sp2 disk using the method here: http://www.helpwithwindows.com/WindowsXP/winxp-sp2-bootcd.html
-dk
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