FLASH: RE: FLash file tends to crash browser on a some PC's r unning Wind ows NT

[Campbell, Clyde]

Hi John,


Removing the ocx file tended to cause all sorts of strange windows to pop

up, with a number of error messages - I don't understand the complexities of

the system registry, or any of the settings within the system32 folder,

running the file "InstallAXFLash.exe" just seems to work, all the time.


So now all I have to do is make an extra html page for the user to go to to

run the .exe file, if his browser crashes! Unfortunatley I don't know how to

make the html code detect for the AX settings and automatically install...


Clyde




> -----Original Message-----

>

From: John Croteau [SMTP:croteauerols [dot] com]

> Sent:	Thursday, October 21, 1999 12:45 PM

>

To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject:	Re: FLASH: RE: FLash file tends to crash browser on a some

> PC's r unning Wind ows NT

> 

> Hi Clyde,

> 

> > Now when the person doesn't have the plug-in installed, and goes to the

> > macromedia website to install the plug-in, everything works just fine!!

> This

> > made me realise that there was something beyond the plug-in ro browser

> > causing the problem.

> > Then I found this file on my computer "InstallAXFlash.exe". When I ran

> this

> > file on the NT PC's who's browser's crashed -

> > Hey Presto! They did crash no more...

> 

> It sounds like a version of the Flash ActiveX control is causing the NT

> problem (or less likely a bad installer of the control on the Web). If

> anyone comes accross an NT that is crashing then get the version number

> of the OCX, remove it from the folder as below and go to MM to

> reinstall. To verify whether it is the OCX that is causing the problem

> remove the new OCX version and replace it with a copy of the old one

> then close IE and then reopen IE and test. If it crashes again then that

> version of the OCX is the culprit and we can set the HTML code to

> replace that version (maybe only as a test page). If the old version

> works when reinstalling it then the installer was faulty.

> 

> What is the version of the ActiveX control that is now installed.

> Probabbly at C:/Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash/SWFlash.ocx

> Right click and select Properties > Version to get the number.

> 

> If you delete this file and go to MM to reinstall do you get the same

> version? 

> And does it crash after the Web reinstall?

> 

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