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The G4 video in the ‘Coronal Tigh says 5/5’ thread causes an error pop up message to appear on my PC: Macromedia Flash Player 6, the script in this movie is causing Macromedia Flash 6 to run slowly. If it continues to run, your computer may become unresponsive. Do you want to abort this script? Yes/no.
When I press Yes the problem goes away. If I press No then the PC locks and, as warned, is unresponsive. This occurred every time I saw the G4 item in the thread, and also in the home directory at the GalCiv2 web site.
I tried to update Flash at the Adobe web site (now called Adobe Flash 9). This failed for no reason I can determine. Then I uninstalled with a special tool (apparently you can’t uninstall using a standard Windows tool – which I don’t like). Now I no longer get the warning popup, and the G4 image is only an icon.
So, a few questions:
1. Do I need Flash? Have I just lobotomized something useful on my PC?
2. What about ActiveX. I did note that Flash requires full authorization to ActiveX, and from what little I know this is pretty intrusive and I should only give rights if I am sure it’s a good idea.
3. Might there be another reason why Flash 9 doesn’t load? Or that my PC is blocking implementation? I run Norton, which does lots of work on the side (and is a resource hog) that I’m not aware of – and, frankly, I generally don’t want to know.
I consider myself a ‘user’ only and have no high level computer knowledge. Any enlightenment would be appreciated!
Hydro
P.S. - in what could be a boon, all the Apolyton banner adds no longer appear!! Now they are only an icon. Apparently they run on Flash, too.
When I press Yes the problem goes away. If I press No then the PC locks and, as warned, is unresponsive. This occurred every time I saw the G4 item in the thread, and also in the home directory at the GalCiv2 web site.
I tried to update Flash at the Adobe web site (now called Adobe Flash 9). This failed for no reason I can determine. Then I uninstalled with a special tool (apparently you can’t uninstall using a standard Windows tool – which I don’t like). Now I no longer get the warning popup, and the G4 image is only an icon.
So, a few questions:
1. Do I need Flash? Have I just lobotomized something useful on my PC?
2. What about ActiveX. I did note that Flash requires full authorization to ActiveX, and from what little I know this is pretty intrusive and I should only give rights if I am sure it’s a good idea.
3. Might there be another reason why Flash 9 doesn’t load? Or that my PC is blocking implementation? I run Norton, which does lots of work on the side (and is a resource hog) that I’m not aware of – and, frankly, I generally don’t want to know.
I consider myself a ‘user’ only and have no high level computer knowledge. Any enlightenment would be appreciated!
Hydro
P.S. - in what could be a boon, all the Apolyton banner adds no longer appear!! Now they are only an icon. Apparently they run on Flash, too.
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