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Hello. I'm an IT guy and one of our users put in a ticket with screen shots showing an error message they get every single day when they sign on to their Windows XP computer. The first error message says:
FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x7c9113c0" referenced memory at "0x00050005". The memory could not be "written". Click OK to terminate the program.
The user clicks OK and then this comes up.
"Adobe Flash Player Update Service 11.3 r300 encountered a problem and needed to close." It then has the date and time of the error (which is when she logged into the PC) and a Send / Don't Send error report button, which we know are just placebos because sending these reports don't fix the problem.
What do you think is causing this? I wanted to report the error not only to get help on it but to make the product better so future versions can be written to not have these errors.
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Test builds have been distributed. We believe we are on to a solid lead and fully expect that the next version of Flash Player will no longer have this bug. Until this release is available, please see this post for details on working around this problem.
Thanks,
Chris
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We are seeing this on multiple Windows XP machines as well. Chris, I sent you a request via email for the trial version.
Thank you.
Marc Hoffman
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I received a test build from Chris (version 11.3.300.265). Initial testing appears good. I'll post back with more results.
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I am also seeing an error every day, but not during logon. Below are the various error messages I received over the past few days:
Today:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe [8120].
Last night:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe [6312].
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe [5868].
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe [4276].
Yesterday:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe [5640].
Sunday:
An unhandled win32 exception occurred in FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe [5248].
Products:
Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX Version=11.2.202.235
Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin Version=11.3.300.262
Windows XP SP3
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Hi Chris. I am experiencing the same issue with a couple of my users running Windows XP SP3. I have emailed you for the latest test build.
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Hi Chris
I also have a xp machine that is having this issue. Could you possibly send me the test build as well?
Thanks
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chris
I am getting the same errors repeatedly. If you have a test fix, please forward it as well. thanks
alan
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I have the same problem everyday. Can you guys also provide me the trial version? Thanks in advance!
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Chris...we are seeing this occur on all machines that had the test build you gave us. Do you have any updates for us?
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Hi.
I'm new here.
In the last few days I received this error every few hours. Sometimes it's very annoying.
I'm using the latest Adobe Flash Player in Windows XP.
Is there something that can be done?
Thank you.
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Chris, I tried ver 11.3.300.265 and still cutting out on wcn.com (wish I had a different site to give you, not all the cams have audio)...it might be a fluke but if I let it go, it seems to get better with time but not perfect. I am running xp
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Chris, Thank you for the link to the test build, while I'm testing I Disabled the service on my other systems as a temp fix until I make sure all is well with the patch.
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Please see my post 3 responses up for a temporary workaround until we can figure out and solve this bug.
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Chris, this new version seemed to work fine for a few days now the user put in another ticket today. This is the error message:
FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe - Application Error
The instruction at "0x7c9113c0" refrenced memory at "0x00050005". The memory could not be "written". Click on OK to terminate the program.
When you click OK then you get Adobe Flash Player Update Service 11.3 r300 encountered a problem and needed to close. This error occured on 7/10/2012 at 9:44:00 PM.
However this user recieved this error when the signed on at 8:15 AM. The computer wasn't even signed on at 9:44 PM. Isn't that strange?
It's a 32 bit Windows XP machine, Service Pack 3, Office 2010 and 4GB RAM.
I'm going to have no choice but to disable the update service.
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Thanks Chris, so far so good with the new version, No problems seen so far, I'm going to go ahead and patch five more machines and monitor them. Will keep you posted as of the statues
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And dont forget to vote!
According to this post, if you think this problem is worthy of Adobe's attention you should vote for it to be fixed.
I mean, unless the election is over.
Is the election over? Did this error win its way onto the Adobe support to-do list?
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Hi,
I also have a xp machine that is having this issue. Could you possibly send me the test build as well?
Thanks
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Unfortunately, the test build is not as successful as I had first thought. One of our test computers reported multiple crashes of the flash update service (about two per day since July 3). When the user was logged out, we received another strange message (I'm posting the screenshot here).
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Seeing the same crashes as in post #11.
ActiveX - 11.3.300.257
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I am having the same problem on Windows XP SP3 machine
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Hi Guys I got same issue "AFTER I RUN CC CLEANER"
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We also have this issue. It is very frustrating as it happens throughout the day. Any answers yet?
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For those that are just looking for a temporary workaround, please follow these steps.
1. Open the Flash Player (32-bit) control panel in your Windows control panels
2. Select the Advanced tab
3. Windows Vista and Windows 7 users only, click the āChange Update Settingsā button and select yes to the Windows confirmation prompt
4. Select āNotify me to install updatesā
5. Close the control panel
If you continue to crash, the following steps will manually disable the update service.
Windows Vista and Windows 7:
cmd /c sc config "AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc" start= disabled
Windows XP:
cmd /c sc config "AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc" start= disabled
Once complete, you should see the output:
[SC] ChangeServiceConfig SUCCESS
You can now close the cmd window. The FlashPlayerUpdateService is now disabled. Please let me know if the error occurs again.
If you've changed your Flash Player updates to "Notify me to install updates" you will get a notification within 7 days of a Flash Player update. On Windows, the notification window will appear after a system restart.
I will make sure to update our Flash Runtime Announcements posts with details as soon as we've resolved these crashers.
Thanks,
Chris
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So far, our two machines that were crashing seem to be ok with the work around...keeping fingers crossed