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Anonymous
April 19, 2008
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Vista 64 bit

  • April 19, 2008
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Here's my question I play on this poker sit that uses flash player, I am using Vista 64 BIT. On 64bit vista the flash player is installed in the syswow64 folder instead of the system32 folder so the site thinks I do not have the flash player installed. Vista defaults to 32 bit on all programs that don't support. The sites support staff apparently cant figure out (or doesn't want to ) point there program to find & use the player. Any Ideas?
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    Anonymous
    April 27, 2008
    teckster, ty I have tracked the problem down to windows not allowing this on program access to the flash player ocx file. here's the error i get.

    System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x80040154): Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154

    when i tro to go in and modify the acess vista wont allow me to
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    tekster17
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    April 25, 2008
    nope, mine instaled in the syswow64 and works fine
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    PhantasyConcepts
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    April 27, 2008
    Yes,

    Don't expect Adobe to release a version of Flash Player for Vista 64-bit. We 64-bit Linux users have been requesting a version for our chosen OS and architecture since 2005. We have emailed technical support, petitioned them (our petition has over 100,000 signatures on it now) and some of us have even offered to work on the port ourselves - those of us with actual software development skills and experience, both of which seem to be missing at Adobe - to no avail. Their answer? "Use a 32-bit browser and everything works fine." Except that it doesn't. 32-bit browsers add an extra set of libraries to maintain. A Linux administrator - something most Windows users wouldn't even know or care about - has enough trouble maintaining one version of his software libraries, but along comes Adobe, demanding that we maintain another 32-bit set of libraries just to run their closed-source, overused, overvalued crappy software. Not that Microsoft has anything better. I humbly invite all 64-bit Windows users to support the Open Source Software Foundation and the projects to bring an Open Source Flash Player to market. Some of you may have to build a version for Windows XP 64 or Vista 64, but either way, you need to help us. Since Adobe is either too arrogant or too stupid to support us in our native environments, maybe we need to leave them behind. Let them develop the producers, we will develop the players. Actually, since they give the players away for free anyhow, it probably wouldn't matter if that was the way things happened. If they would allow Open Source development of the player software, they could stick to the process of making the production software. Oh, someone might be able to create a free version of their Adobe Flash studio, but it wouldn't have nearly the features of Adobe's own. How about it, Adobe? Are your CEO, CTO and CFO man enough - or woman enough as the case may be - to see that Open Sourcing your player software is a good thing? Maybe you can save a few man-hours by allowing the player code to go into community development. After all, you have to admit that you haven't exactly been rushing to get the player software out the door.
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    Anonymous
    April 21, 2008
    tekster I do the same I have home premium & I only have issues with 1 site. Are you saying flash installed in sys32 instead of syswow64?
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    tekster17
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    April 21, 2008
    i use vista ultimate x64. i dont use the x64 IE, i use the 32bit and flash works fine. installed to the right place and everything.
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    Anonymous
    April 21, 2008
    I'm not using it on a 64bt browser, vista 64 bit comes with both a 32 & 64 bit IE explorer. The default browser is the 32 bit one, I did have issues with getting it installed but solved that by down loading flash player & then installing it. the automatic install off there site didn't work. If you still have issues with it working go to the syswow64 file in windows find the player right click it & tell it to run as administrator. The only things I use 64bit on right now are games like Crysis.
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    neptune-klm
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    April 21, 2008
    how are you using flash player on your 64 bit browser? i also have a 64 bit browser and am not able to download/use flash player?? tia
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