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Ok I've asked around tons of places and I can't get any help. Everytime I turn on my computer I have to re DL the flash player so I can watch Youtube and things like that. When I turn it off I have to DL it all over again?

Does anyone know what might cause this or how I can fix it?
 
what brand/model laptop? operating system? browser(s)? firewall? anti-virus? recently installed programs? have you ever been able to download/use flash player before? details, details, details....
 
Agreed. As an IT tech, there isn't much I can do for you without more details.

Off the top of my head, you might want to uninstall Flash Player via add/remove programs (assuming you're using Windows), and reinstall it fresh.
 
What he said. Uninstall Flash. Then using Firefox download and install. No more problems.
 
I have a step note with Vista. I know NOTHING about computers so you guys may have to explain to me a little what exactly stuff is.

I have installed the flash player and then put it back and it still won't work after I turn my computer off......I tried using Firefox but it still does the exact same thing....
 
You have a case of Gremlins. Do not, I repeat do not feed them after midnight.
 
Vista, 'nuff said. Bought a HP laptop last year. That thing would lock up if you just looked at it wrong. 2 trips back and was assured it was 'fixed' the second time, lasted a week. Had the drive wiped, installed XP and no problems since.
 
i suspect you had a problem with HP. I've got a computer with Vista for well over a year and no problems. BTW, my computer with the Vista is a Dell. Oh heck, all of my computers are Dell with the one exception of an old computer that is...are you ready for this...a Gateway 2000 with Win98. I still remember all the complaints about WinXP.
 
I'd agree with you Buck but since installing XP not one problem.

I'll see your Gateway and raise you a clone 286 SX (or is it a DX as it doesn't have a math co-processer?) w/ a 80 meg HD ( You'll never fill it up I was told)
running Win 3.1. Oh, and 4 meg of ram! Still in the basement along with a 21 pin dot matrix tractor feed printer.:beerbang:
 
vista still has a number of problems that can't be fixed without manually editing the registry or other advanced solutions. call tech support for the computer and see if they can help. my wife has vista on a toshiba laptop that kept giving her the access denied problem even though she is an administrator. installed windows7 for her as a dual boot and no complaints yet. ms seems to have reigned in the runaway uac stupidity in vista with windows7. not that uac is bad, just the way vista implements it.
 
SST55 said:
I'd agree with you Buck but since installing XP not one problem.

I'll see your Gateway and raise you a clone 286 SX (or is it a DX as it doesn't have a math co-processer?) w/ a 80 meg HD ( You'll never fill it up I was told)
running Win 3.1. Oh, and 4 meg of ram! Still in the basement along with a 21 pin dot matrix tractor feed printer.:beerbang:
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WOW! What a machine. My first one, and it was one of the top ones at the time, was that 286SX with 2 megs of RAM and a 40 meg hard drive. I tried to install Win 3.1, but didn't have enough space left to run the programs I had. Oh and by the way, I also had the ability to double the speed when I needed it from 8 to 16 mhz. I don't ever remember going to 8. There was one thing that that machine did that was good and that was that it taught me how to use DOS. And, there are times still that I use those commands...but not very often.
 
Mine also came with 2 meg but I bought "Aces of the Pacific" for my son and had to add 2 more, I think I paid $90 for the 2 meg then. The 80 meg hd was also a upgrade from a 40 or 60. Also had the "Turbo" button that doubled the speed too. Had 100's of those 5.5" floppies for work, high density ones too. :)

This was a no name clone bought from a shop. My BIL had just bought a number of them for his company so I got a deal, $1600?


It still works! Well, it did about 3 years ago.:)
 
SST55 said:
Mine also came with 2 meg but I bought "Aces of the Pacific" for my son and had to add 2 more, I think I paid $90 for the 2 meg then. The 80 meg hd was also a upgrade from a 40 or 60. Also had the "Turbo" button that doubled the speed too. Had 100's of those 5.5" floppies for work, high density ones too. :)

This was a no name clone bought from a shop. My BIL had just bought a number of them for his company so I got a deal, $1600?


It still works! Well, it did about 3 years ago.:)
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I paid $2300 for that Packard Bell piece of crap. Fortunate for me lightning hit my house and killed this machine. I replace it with another piece of crap, a Compaq model with the help of insurance.

Quick story. After I first bought my computer, I didn't know how to use it and played around with it for a while. I found the DOS Shell and had to play with that. I evidently erased my autoexec.bat file and thus when I fired the machine up later, I got nothing that I had seen before. I called my brother who was a computer whiz and asked what happened. He explained what I had obviously done and taught me how to rewrite the file to get things going again. I did and viola, it worked. In a couple of weeks when I took a computer course, I was called a ringer! I guess just knowing how to write a file and save it was tops in the class.
 
I've had a Vista PC for over a year now, and have had no issues with it. Seriously.

I've had XP crash on me about 5 times between 2001 and 2008. And all of those times were because of software apps. Vista hasn't crashed once on me so far, and I'm happy with it. There's a lot of features I love about it over XP. Searching for one thing is much easier thanks to indexing.

But having said that, I am disappointed that Vista is such a resource hog. That's one huge issue they've fixed with Windows 7. But I wont be an early adapter for the new Windows OS. Maybe sometime next year I'll upgrade the OS and video card in preperation for Diablo 3.

:headbang:
 
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