In the global settings manager (Control Panel) you can disable it on your PC. That.... is only half the battle, though. EVERY website with Flash content, at least the ones that are worth their salt, will have code in their pages (expressInstall.swf and swfobject_modified.js) which detect your version and will either prompt you to upgrade, deny you the content, or automatically take you to the download page to upgrade, thus denying you the content you wished to see. Sites do this to protect themselves from the consequences of allowing unsafe plug-ins to access their content, in the event they get hacked, and they end up liable for a class action. Also, and I mention this because now that XP is no longer receiving security patches, it's important... unscrupulous and malicious sites, which will download malware, will also use these same detection scripts to take you to a fake download site, or blindly download their malware, with nothing in XP anymore to stop it. These villains are aware that XP is now obsolete from a security standpoint and they will proliferate as a result. There's NOTHING you can do "locally" to prevent this other than disabling Javascript in your browser altogether, whichb will lesad to even more problems with content not loading or whole pages not loading.
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