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Karl_Christian
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April 6, 2010
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Flash Player for Windows 32-bit operating system

  • April 6, 2010
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I feel so stupid ....

and I am also exhausted after trying to find a solution (which is not too technical for me ... ) to my problem:

I use a Dell portable PC System 1555 with System 7  64-bit operation system. I need of many reasons Flash Player (my grandchild tried to play games on internet and only get a "red cross" upper left when pushing the Play-button...) and I understand that Flash Player s is not finished yet from Adobe coming to 64-bit systems.

Now I also tried to install a streaming music program but got message back that I need to install Adobe Flash Player...

I have not been able to find an "easy" way to get my PC working with the 32- bit Flash Player as I understand shall be one solution to my problems.

I am a retired person not too clever technically, and am just wondering if it is possible to get an relatively easy instruction how to solve my problem.

By phone did Dell Norway give me the advice to contact the Adobe User Forum as Dell could not help me.

Thanking you, my advisor, much in advance !

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    Hi Karl Christian, Believe me I understand how confusing this 32bit/64bit can be. Following is a thread that I hope will

    be helpful to you. Read the posts by Solipso, as he explains it better than anyone I have seen.

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2461980#2461980

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

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    Karl_ChristianAuthor
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    April 8, 2010

    Thank you, all my good friends here at the forum, you have been very helpful.

    I have read all the good advices and threads and have tried many things and the problem now seemed solved. The "trick" was probably to deactivate the ie64 bit browser and activate the ie32 bit.

    Now I can again enjoy to open programs which need the Flash Player and I am able to enjoy a program providing streaming music to my portable Pc.

    Again, thank you all!

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    Anonymous
    April 8, 2010

    Hi Karl, well that is good news. Thank you for letting us know that you were able to get your computer running as it should. This 32bit/64bit is very confusing, sometimes I think I got it, then I'm not sure Have to read things 2-3 times.

    Regards,

    eidnolb

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    Anonymous
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    April 7, 2010

    Hi Karl Christian, Believe me I understand how confusing this 32bit/64bit can be. Following is a thread that I hope will

    be helpful to you. Read the posts by Solipso, as he explains it better than anyone I have seen.

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2461980#2461980

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    April 7, 2010

    ...but it will only run on a 32bit browser (e.g. Internet Explorer 32bit).

    370H55V
    370H55V
    Inspiring
    April 7, 2010

    Is there such a thing as 64 bit IE?

    I was unaware.

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    April 7, 2010

    See http://blogs.msdn.com/ieinternals/archive/2009/05/29/q-a-64-bit-internet-explorer.aspx for some info on 32bit & 64bit IE.  It seems that 32bit is the default.

    There are similar topics around on 32bit & 64bit Firefox and other browsers.

    370H55V
    370H55V
    Inspiring
    April 6, 2010

    According to Microsoft

    Flash Player 10 is fully compatible with Windows 7 64 bit Operating system.

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