Black Mage Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 For some reason, all of a sudden half (if not all) of the flash based elements on any given web page have stopped working and are replaced with the "Get Flash" icon. The thing is, I already have the latest Flash 10.0.12.36, but things like MySpace music players don't show up, half the slide shows I try and view don't show up, sometimes even flickr images don't show up in Firefox. I've tried deactivating adblock plus on the problem pages, but it does nothing to help, just lets the ads show up. This has happened before, but was fixed after I reformatted my HDD when I last cleaned my system to start fresh (I do this every 8 to 12 months). Any thoughts, suggestions, answers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phill Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Try running firefox under a different profile and see what happens. Open the Windows "Start" menu, select "Run" then type and enter one of the following: * firefox.exe -profilemanager * firefox.exe -P if that doesn't help, try doing the uninstall rituals, (firefox and flash) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Mage Posted January 12, 2009 Author Share Posted January 12, 2009 Oye, what a shitty day. Seems Flash was the least of my worries, today. I had hoped to spend they day doing many a thing enjoyable. Get caught up on watching Firefly, go shoot some photos at Layton Commons, maybe gain some ground playing Chrono Trigger. That all, however, went down the crapper. It started when I was trying to install what was supposedly a very good, and free, anti-virus software. I decompressed the .rar and proceeded to run the setup file. When it looked like it was bout done, I deactivated my old copy of McAfee...then all hell broke loose! Withing a matter of seconds my screen was filled with a plethora of registry error and deletion warnings, followed by malware alerts from both SpyBot and Windows anti-virus. Soon, my system was so bogged down that it essentially froze. Panicking, I I hit the power button and did a hard reboot in hopes that it would stop whatever was happening, and maybe even reverse some of it. No luck, upon trying to start Windows, my HDD seemed to enter what can only be described as some sort of techno-trance-like rhythm of beeps, grunts, and buzzes. After trying a number of times to reboot, I gave in and decided to use my system roll-back. I was, however, unable to access it because Windows wouldn't even start, and it seems that the roll-back program is not accessible from safe mode. "Okay," I thought to myself, "so I'll just do an OS restore and hope that fixes any registry errors." But, again, no dice. Every time I got to the end of the setup sequence, the system froze solid. At this point it's about 10am and I'm wondering if it's too early to pull out my bottle of Bowmore Legend scotch. The only thought that kept me sane was the new external hard drive my brother got me for Christmas, which I had immediately used to create me complete backup of all my music, photos, movies, and other program files. And luckily I had done another backup just yesterday! So, back to the carnage... Fearing the worst for my music collection (7,280 songs on 30.6GB, loosing this is not an option), I wanted to see if I could possibly do a second manual transfer of the files to my external HDD. I couldn't of course do it in windows, so I tried to start the system in the command prompt and hoped I could remember the proper commands to do anything in DOS, which I haven't used in years. Again, however, no go. So it finally came down to my final resort, a complete destructive restoration of my HDD, something I don't like to do because it takes forever to get my compy back to the way I like it. So I of course just went and did it. Nice though it is to have a squeaky clean system, again, and convenient though it was to have a backup on my external HDD, it still has taken me all day to get the Windows updates, SP2, and SP3 installed, plus having to reinstall all my necessary programs. Even now I am still working on getting updated drivers for my keyboard and still need to get Lightroom 2.2 up and running, and my Twitter apps, and tweak my Firefox skin, and rebuild my photo library, and then reinstall UltimateDefrag to run a thorough HDD reorganizing, then clean the registry and misc files with CCleaner and finally create a system restoration directory, just in case. Oh, and I've gone and installed the full version of AGV Anti-Virus...so no more issues there. I guess this is a good reminder of the possible dangers of using bit torrents. I think I'm ready for that scotch, now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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