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moniaa10
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June 5, 2009
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how to play swf files that are stored on my computer with adobe flash 10?

  • June 5, 2009
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i just installed succesfully adobe flash 10, and want to "open with" swf files stored on my computer with "adobe flash" that i just installed, but i can't find it on my computer programs... hence can't open the files... how can i open them?

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    Anonymous
    June 5, 2009

    I am going to have to write a technote about this, because it comes up a lot.

    Flash Player itself is designed to play SWF content as a browser plugin or as an ActiveX control (when it's IE Windows).

    There is a standalone Flash Player, but that's something Adobe  provides directly as a feature of Flash CS4 Professional. It gets installed with Flash. We have made some standalone players available on http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html, but not all (and I don't know why.  Looking into it)

    There are numerous 3rd party standalone SWF players out there though.  Some designed to just play video, others that play full SWF. I suggest a google search of 'play SWF standalone' and read the results.


    On the Mac, consumers who want to play SWF content off their desktop can use the Adobe Media Player. You can import a local SWF (and FLV and other video) and play it in AMP.  Get it here:

    http://www.adobe.com/products/mediaplayer/

    That's Mac only, doesn't work on Windows.

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