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27AnAdobeUser
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March 1, 2011
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Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.26's system requirements exceed my computer hardware's capabilities.

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Hi.  I discovered that I am in a predicament with version 10.2.152.26 of Adobe Flash Player for the Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13 Web browser.  It is stated as requiring 128 MegaBytes (MB) of video memory and a 2.33-GigaHertz (GHz) central processing unit (c.p.u.) or better; yet my Hewlett Packard ZE1110 Pavilion notebook computer's S3 Graphics TwisterK HP video card appears to have only 16 MB of video memory and a 1-GHz c.p.u.  Currently I am using version 10.1.102.64 of Adobe Flash Player, apparently also known as Shockwave Flash 10.1r102, and don't know what its system requirements are.  What are they?  In my installation of 32-bit Windows XP Home Edition via "Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings" tab, "Advanced," and the "S3Info Plus" tab there is a drop-down list box that allows me to double the video memory to 32 MB for my video memory card; but I get the impression that that may be to use 16 MB of the hard-disk drive for the additional video memory, which I suppose from the standpoint of speed may not be so efficient.--Also I wonder if that sort of hard-disk drive use would occur automatically when the additional video memory is needed, even if I were to instead keep that setting at 16 MB for the video memory.  If my computer's video card is a part of my computer's motherboard, then I assume that replacing a video card in a notebook computer may not be an inexpensive or easy thing to do.  Should I "drop back" to using a much earlier version of Adobe Flash Player with system requirements which better match my computer's hardware?  If so, what version would that be and from where on the Internet may I obtain it?  I hope I won't have to buy a new computer in order to have enough video memory to match or exceed the system requirements of Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.26 and future versions of the Adobe Flash Player.

I have been getting along tolerably well using Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 with my computer.--In my Firefox browser and using a slow, but cheap dial-up Internet service sometimes it was necessary for me to enter a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) more than once to view a Web page; and using the new Adobe Reader X sometimes I had to refresh a Web page once or twice using the Firefox Web browser before a download of a Portable Document Format (PDF) file was completed.  What do you recommend I do concerning the use of both my computer and Adobe Flash Player?

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    pwillener
    pwillener
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    March 1, 2011

    The System Requirements also state that Windows XP is the minimum supported OS.  Yet I installed it successfully on my Windows 2000 system.

    My advice: try installing 10.2 on your system; in the worst case you can always go back to 10.1.

    B.t.w. the latest Flash Player version is 10.2.152.32.

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    27AnAdobeUserAuthor
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    March 2, 2011

    Okay, thanks for your advice, which gratefully turned out to be good advice!  I downloaded and installed Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.32 assuming that Adobe Flash Player 10.2.152.32 would replace my previously existing Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64 installation in my Mozilla Firefox Web browser.  At a similar time that Web browser was updated from version 3.6.13 to version 3.6.14 of it.  In Firefox's "Tools" menu's "Add-ons" I could then see "Shockwave Flash 10.2.152.32" and "Shockwave 10.2r152" listed and assume that those are two designations of the same add-on.  In 32-bit Windows XP Home Edition I returned my Hewlett Packard notebook computer's S3 Graphics TwisterK HP card's video memory to 16 MegaBytes (MB) via "Start, Control Panel, Display, Settings, Advanced, S3Info Plus" and on the drop-down list box selecting 16 MB instead of 32 MB; after that I clicked on "Apply" and in the successful change clicked on "Yes" to a necessary restart of my computer to effect the change, and may or may not have clicked on one or two "OK"s.  I tested the new Flash Player by playing and watching a portion of the movie under "Adobe Flash-Video Test" on the Web page http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html.  The video and audio signals of the movie there gratefully appeared to be fine, other than the not-surprising waiting periods for data to be received on my computer from the Internet using my slow, but cheap dial-up Internet service.  Thanks again for what proved to be good advice for me!

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    27AnAdobeUserAuthor
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    March 2, 2011

    In my above posting when viewed in my Mozilla Firefox 3.6.14 Web browser a space appears to have been added by the Web-site or server computer program between "htm" and "l" at the end of it.  However, clicking on that associated hyperlink correctly opened the Web page which does not have the space between "htm" and "l" in its Uniform Resource Locator (URL), which is what I like to occur here.

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