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July 17, 2010
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Flash Player Causing Entire PC To Lock Up!

  • July 17, 2010
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Recently i updated my flash player to the latest version supplied by adobe on their official website.

And since then ive started to encounter a serious and annoying problem, which is whenever i open a site which uses adobe flash player, after a few seconds, the entire computer becomes completeley unresponsive, And does not become responsive again even when left half an hour.

I have uninstalled it, cleaned registry, restarted, reinstalled (with proper prcedures, ie: restarting when necessary etc.) multiple times.

I have deleted everything to do with Adobe on my pc, even searched through my C: drive and got rid of tiny and hard to find things LOL.

I have read through the forums, but all i could see was other reports of it freezing peoples browsers?

Why is it causing my entire pc to lock up whenever i use a site that requires flash player!

Im sick of having to hold down the power button on my pc to EMERGENCY shutdown and having to wait to turn it back on and go through the whole "your pc shut down incorrectly nonsense".

Im running Windows Vista Ultimate (64Bit), and ive even read up on the fact that flash player doesnt work in 64 bit browsers, but my IE and FF are both 32 bit, and ran perfectly before this latest update. So i know for a fact it isnt a browser problem.

Please help!

Thanks in advance.

JayyBee36

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    pwillener
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    July 18, 2010

    What IE and FF versions are you using?

    Have you tried the usual remedies, like

    • disable hardware acceleration (Flash Player Settings)?
    • update the device drivers for your graphics/video/display adapter?