Lag in Windows Vista

Nvm, I got it by updating my audio thing

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=184&threadid=1262282&CFID=9006118&CFTOKEN=51701c26c87f3f7b-282799B4-CCFE-1A56-73B5A86EB2205D3C&jsessionid=4830ba6cb621492b7477

these posts helped me a lot

Thanks for all the help guys! haha

I'm back

and k.. found two more things...

Saved a .swf file and my computer didn't know what to use to open it. Is that normal? When I opened it and clicked the "use web service to identify which program to use it" option, it just took me to the download adobe flash page.. weird. Anyway, so I download the program SWF Opener. I open up the swf file.. and it still lags! So.. I'm guessing the problem has nothing to do with internet/internet browsers.
Any ideas.. please =/

Oh and I guess I should also include.. whenever I go to a page, there's always a brief 1/2-a -second or so where it doesn't detect flash, and then it does (e.g. A flash advertisement displays as a regular still picture, then changes into a flash object).

Or, on some sites, it'll say in text "You do not have flash installed", then it just changes to the flash object.

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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oh, and while flash objects do show up, whenever I go to the download flash page, ( http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/flash/trigger/en/2/index.html), it asks me to "Click here to install the following activex control, blah blah etc".
Then the dialog boxes pop up.. and it asks me to restart - so it seems like everything's already installed. But like I said, if I just go and test the download page, everything starts over again. I'm not sure.. is this what's supposed to happen? Cause I remember that on my old computer, which was a lot older, the flash installed movie would just play if you already had it.

thanks :)