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Mrs Clift wrote:
Hi Ortwin, clicked on your link but sadly my German is not that good
Have same problem as M_Miller and would like some help. Will go and vote re bug,
Thanks
Hi Mrs Clift,
sorry for that and for the late reply. I have not checked my subscriptions due to illness.
I will try to add an english translation to my blog entry within the next days. Thx for your feedback. 
regards from germany
Ortwin
Oldperl wrote:
Mrs Clift wrote:
Hi Ortwin, clicked on your link but sadly my German is not that good
Thanks
Hi Mrs Clift,
sorry for that and for the late reply. I have not checked my subscriptions due to illness.
I will try to add an english translation to my blog entry within the next days. Thx for your feedback.
regards from germany
Ortwin
So for all non-German speaking people i just added an english version of my blog-article using OldCigaret wrapper to install Flash-Player-Updates.
Please use this link http://www.ortwinpinke.de/en/2012/03/13/install-adobe-flash-player-11110262-and-later-under-windows-...
Feel free to add a comment, also if you will find any mistakes in my english.
Regards from germany
Ortwin
J Fortune wrote:
Oldperl... just a mistake in the creation of the link above, as it has an extra http:// at the end of the embedded link that causes the page to not load correctly
Thx a lot. It's stupid that you cannot edit your own postings after some time!
Mrs Clift wrote:
Thank you also to Ortwin for adding an English version, I am sure it will be beneficial to others but sadly, not me! Ps, Ortwin, I hope you're feeling better!
Your welcome Mrs Clift. I hope it will help other non-german-speeking people. And thx for the well wishes, I'm feeling better again.
Regards from germany
Ortwin
notbebe,
Thank you for your workaround! You are a SUPER GENIUS! Even better than Wile E. Coyote!
Mrs. Clift, are you still reading this thread? Doing the workaround suggested by notbebe is as easy as editing a long text document using a word processor, searching for something in it like "I have a gray dog." and then changing that text to something similar like "I miss my old cat." After changing the text, you save the changes and you're done.
The only differences are that you're not using a word processor (you're using a very simple "hex editor" like "HxD") and it's not a text document you're editing (it's the latest Flash Player installer program).
I'll try to provide instructions that should be easy to follow. Here we go!
Do a google search for HxD (that's capital H, small x, capital D) and download and install that program. The link to the pertinent website I have from my installed copy of this free program (Version 1.7.7.0) is: http://www.mh-nexus.de
Tell it to put a shortcut on your desktop when it asks. The shortcut's icon will look like a green capital letter H, a black small letter x, and a white capital letter D on an orange background.
Then download the (latest) Adobe Flash updater program you'd like to install.
For Flash Player 11 for Internet Explorer, use the following link:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/completion/?installer=Flash_Player_11_for_Internet_Explorer_(32_bit)
For Flash Player 11 for other browsers (like Firefox or Opera), use the following link:
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/completion/?installer=Flash_Player_11_for_Other_Browsers_(32_bit)
Now you have the Flash program(s) that give you that crazy-looking error mentioned at the top of this thread when you try to run them on your Windows 2000 pc on which you haven't felt ready to go through the various steps (explained in earlier postings) needed to apply the "wrapper" patches.
Never fear -- you can now EDIT those files so they WILL run on your Windows 2000 pc's as they are!
Let's assume that you've downloaded the file to apply the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player to your Internet Explorer web browser. That file would be named: install_flash_player_ax_32bit.exe
Open the HxD editor you've installed and do (only) the following after it opens:
Click on File, Open (or press Ctrl+O on your keyboard, if you prefer) and browse to the folder containing the install_flash_player_ax_32bit.exe file. Double-click that file in the Open dialog box to open it. You'll see a funky screen with blue numbers along the left and across the top, 16 columns of "base 16" numbers (that's what hexadecimal means, hence a "hex" editor), and lots of "gibberish" in another 16-characters-wide section on the right. Don't be intimidated by any of this. It's like opening your car and looking at the engine and all the gizmos under the hood. If all we want to do is check the oil and leave the other stuff alone, we'll be fine. 🙂 So that's what we're going to do.
We are going to search for the "SetDllDirectoryW" text and change it to "GetModuleHandleW" and then we are going to save this change and quit. That's all. Just like the text example I cited above. Simple.
Just like checking the oil in a car, only not as messy. 🙂
Press the F3 key. This is the "Find again" shortcut in the HxD editor. Since this is the FIRST TIME you're doing this, it won't "remember" anything to find from before. This is where you (very carefully, because it will "remember" and you won't have to type the whole thing again anymore) type into the "Search for" box the text for which you want to search, i.e., type: SetDllDirectoryW
You should read that as "set dee el el directory double you" (DLL is geek speak for something called a Dynamic Link Library.) I don't know if "case" matters -- I just typed it the way notbebe gave it above.
It should look something like this (I'm showing the text highlighted):
Then click on the "OK" button (or press the "Enter" key on your keyboard).
You should then see something like this:
Crazy at it may seem, those hexadecimal numbers (53, 65, 74, 44, 6C, 6C...) actually correspond to the letters we understand a little better (SetDll...). Here is where you will very carefully edit them. Remember -- we're only changing SetDllDirectoryW to GetModuleHandleW (and nothing else). Some of the letters in these 16-character groups are the same, and some are different. The ones that you will change will be shown in red where they differ from the originals.
VERY CAREFULLY click your mouse in the "section on the right" where you can see the "SetDllDirectoryW" letters. Try to click just before the capital letter "S" when you do this.
Then VERY CAREFULLY type ONLY: GetModuleHandleW so that those 16 characters replace the 16 characters in SetDllDirectoryW. You don't even have to type the final "W" since it's the same.
When you've typed those "replacement letters," it should look like this:
See how the changed letters (and their hexadecimal "counterparts") are shown in red? Check to make sure you didn't mistype anything. YAY -- you're done typing! (If you happen to make a mistake, you should be able to easily correct it. If for whatever reason things ever look like they're totally out of hand, you can always quit (without saving changes) and start over.) Now all you have to do is save your changes! Let's save the changes the following way to keep it simple:
Close out the HxD program by clicking on its "close button" -- the "X" in the far upper right corner -- the one "on top of" the other one. When it asks if you want to save the changes, click Yes.
HxD is such a nice hex editor that it AUTOMATICALLY saves a BACKUP of the ORIGINAL file in case anything went wrong! (That backup has a file suffix that ends in ".bak" so you can easily tell.)
Not only that, but now anytime you edit one of these Adobe Flash installation programs again and need to make the same change, all you'll have to do (since you did it properly the first time as I wrote above) after opening the file for editing is to press the following three keys to do the search:
F3 (Again, that is the F3 key, NOT the letter F followed by the numeral 3)
Down-arrow (Yes, the arrow on your keyboard that points down.)
Enter
All you have to remember is to type GetModuleHandleW as the replacement text (and save the changes). Now you can download the Flash installer, tweak it, and run it without any problem on your pristine Windows 2000 pc, and you'll be up-to-date! (Say it over and over to yourself to memorize it: "Get module handle double you" (or just copy it to a text file so you remember what it is).
This should work well for you. Have a nice day. Please say a prayer for me and my family. (My uncle died last month and the named executor of the will is currently being kind of nasty to the rest of us.)
Sincerely,
AcroNot
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