Flash Player freezes Windows

Forum|Forum|13 years ago
November 11, 2012
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Flash player froze Windows every time I tried to use it.. I was referred to the Adobe page for troubleshooting this issue, but that did not help. The problem was with their recommendation to update the drivers using Control panel etc. I describe this as a problem because Windows confirmed that every driver was up to date and functioning properly. Still the problem persisted. Then I found Driver Max. It was reviewed well on CNet, and because a reformat was the only alternative, I tried it. It found 7 drivers to be out of date. After 5 of the drivers had been installed, Adobe is now runningt fine. That could change of course, but I have not gotten a full day of video use without a crash before. I am only posting this because blog posts and forum solutions range from totally incomplete to completely destructive. I discovered this by sheer persistance. Windows itself was totally misleading. I don't care if you use it or not, but this free service may help you. Has anyone else used Driver Max?

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chris.campbell

Legend

This could have been caused by outdated or buggy video drivers. Did Driver Max tell you which drivers it was updating?

J

JAGUAR6CYAuthor

Inspiring

I'm sure it was caused by outdated drivers. The scan identifies the drivers individually. I downloaded them individually, set a restore point, installed each one and restarted. Each step is controlled by the program itself. Of seven idnetified I only had to roll back one. Even that was easy with the software provided. It is very complete and well thought out. All of them installed correctly and work perfectly. I have had no futrther issues with Flash since these updates. Unfortunately I cannot identify which one may have caused the conflict as I did them in sequence and didn't bother to test Flash in between. It is easy to use, current, fail safe with the retore points and I continue to recommend it. Have you tried it yet?

chris.campbell

Legend

I believe I've used it once in the past, but I encountered issues when it updated some of my Intel chipset/usb drivers (I'm going by memory here, at this was about a year ago so I could be wrong.) It was nice to see what was outdated though. I'm pretty obsessive about my video card drivers (I do a lot of PC gaming) so keeping up to date drivers is always on my to do list.

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