Flash Player 10.1.102.64 is for 32 bit or 64 bit systems?

[Failon]

On 27 Dec 2010 AEDST (Australia) I downloaded and tried to install the above update, the installation would not complete as the message on screen was 'This program is incorrect format for this system as it is 64 bit and your system is 32 bit.'

System is MS Windows with Internet Explorer and main browser is Mozilla using IE settings, P4/1.70GHz with 384mb RAM, X86 based PC

Browsed all over your site and I can't find a 32 bit Flash Player. Please help

[pwillener]

From where did you download that installer, and what is the file name?

FP 10.1.102.64 can be installed on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, but can only run on 32-bit browsers.

Download your installer(s) from here, and you should have no problems: http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html

[Failon]

Downloaded above Flash player from Adobe.com, file name Adobe Flash Player 10.1.102.64, system Windows, browser Mozilla Firefox 3.6.13. No problems until I tried to install it. Standard response from installation procedure, turn off Windows Messenger, did this and on retry of installation 'This program is a 64 bit program and is not suitable to your system. Thank you for your help, I will try out your solution and let you know the outcome.

[Failon]

Thank you for the link, I have found where I went wrong. Instructions from Adobe at this link are for Download to be 'run' in Mozilla 3.6.13, 'to run' is only available in Windows IE. So when I reached this point I was only able 'to save' and I did that.

When I then went to my Control Panel on my computer and tried to Install a New Program. In the 'Browse' box to install program the response was (I am correcting my syntax here) 'install_flash_player_10.1.102.64 is not a valid Win 32 application'.

Perhaps my difficulties arise from saving a program meant 'to run' where any other choice was unavailable?

Thanks so much for all your help.

[pwillener]

So everything is fine now?

[Failon]

When I typed my original query I had a problem. I reviewed that query and supplied more information to assist in gaining a solution to my problem. I have not solved the problem I had found before I requested help.

I have re-read and re-tried to follow and implement your instructions and still the computer response is that the program 'saved' 'is not a valid Win 32 application'.

My browser is, and will remain Mozilla Firefox. Internet Explorer will not remove Big Pond from its grasp and since moving from these two features on my machine I have a better and more functional internet experience without a variety of cumulative problems.

Since 1985 Internet Explorer began and has increasingly downloaded and installed programs from remote internet sites. Mozilla Firefox will not do this and continues to have the policy of 'saving' to the individual computer programs to be 'installed' later. Mozilla Firefox will only 'save' and has no option to 'run' an installation from a remote address.

I have had many happy hours with all Adobe products that provided support and tools for web use and I am at this time lost for a product in the areas those programs filled. As there is no solution to my problem after 5 attempts to follow your instructions I will have to miss out  on using Adobe products or find another solution.

Thanking you for all your help and I do hope you can solve the problem I have posed.

[pwillener]

Failon wrote:

the program 'saved' 'is not a valid Win 32 application'.

In your original post you wrote that the message was  'This program is incorrect format for this system as it is 64 bit and your system is 32 bit.'

That is very different from what you wrote in your last post.  That message simply means that the download is corrupted (not a valid Win 32 application).