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Forum Thread: Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying
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| smcpoland | Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying |
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19th Aug, 2010 09:39 |
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Ranking: 2 Posts: 6 User Since: 6th Apr, 2009 System Score: N/A Location: SA |
Ok Windows 7 Ult 64 bit Secunia latest version Adobe Flash latest version Adobe flash is still out of date... PSI tells me it is here C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll This directory does NOT exist, yes I've done show hidden & System files etc... the file does exist in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash but this is the latest as installed by Adobe. So why am I being told flash exists when it doesn't? Thanks and regards |
| dracudok | RE: Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying | ||||||||
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19th Aug, 2010 10:15 | ||||||||
| Score: 42 Posts: 25 User Since: 14th Jun 2009 System Score: 100% Location: DE |
Hi smcpoland, Adobe Flash is 32-bit software and that's why it is installed to the SysWOW64-folder on 64-bit operating systems. That is some of the strange rules Microsoft has implemented to deal with 32-bit software, that claims to be installed to the system32-folder, but cannot because this is reserved for 64-bit software. PSI obviously shows the same file twice, one time referenced by windows\system32\... (which is not real) and one time referenced by its real path windows\SysWOW64\... An explanation why your installation ist old may be, that there still exists an old Flash10[letter].ocx in your Macromed\Flash-folder with letter < i. dracudok |
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| smcpoland | RE: Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying | ||||||||
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21st Aug, 2010 10:30 | ||||||||
| Score: 2 Posts: 6 User Since: 6th Apr 2009 System Score: N/A Location: SA |
Hi Dracodok, first things first, I understand why SYSWOW64 is used, I'm a developer but you weren't to know that. My point being is why does PSI tell me about a library that doesn't exist? Shouldn't PSI just get the file directory that it is installed in and report that? Or does PSI have a hard coded "library location" for this file? I hope not. Maybe windows is using the Virtual Directory service which is why PSI picks up the wrong directory? PSI in this case is not showing the file name twice it is showing it once, in the afore mentioned windows\system32\macromed library (which doesn't exist). If I look at the file location under syswow64 I see that all files are = i it is not the Flash10[i].ocx file that is causing the problem but NPSWF32.dll whose properties are 10.1.82.76 installed on 19/08/2010. This is the latest version and I'm still being told it's wrong. Thanks and regards Sean |
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| dracudok | RE: Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying | ||||||||
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21st Aug, 2010 11:24 | ||||||||
| Score: 42 Posts: 25 User Since: 14th Jun 2009 System Score: 100% Location: DE |
Hi smcpoland, yes, these are the questions I ask myself too. But they should be better answered by a PSI-specialist/developer. For example the following components show this strange behaviour: - Adobe Flash Player (Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32.dll, Macromed\Flash\Flash10i.ocx) - Adobe Shockwave Player (Adobe\Director\np32dsw.dll, Adobe\Director\SwDir.dll) - MSCOMCTL ActiveX Control (MSCOMCTL.OCX) - Microsoft Update Catalog ActiveX Control (MicrosoftUpdateCatalogWebControl.dll) - Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage ActiveX Control (LegitCheckControl.DLL) - Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 4.x (msxml4.dll) The referenced files or relative pathes in these examples are always shown twice by PSI on a 64 bit OS, one time (true) within the windows\SysWOW64 folder and one time (false) within the windows\system32 folder. dracudok |
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| smcpoland | RE: Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying | ||||||||
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22nd Aug, 2010 08:49 | ||||||||
| Score: 2 Posts: 6 User Since: 6th Apr 2009 System Score: N/A Location: SA |
Ok, so how do we get PSI developers to look at this? | ||||||||
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| Anthony Wells | RE: Adobe Flash sooooo Annoying | ||||||||
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22nd Aug, 2010 14:33 | ||||||||
| Score: 2329 Posts: 3,205 User Since: 19th Dec 2007 System Score: N/A Location: N/A |
Hello , This problem was explained in some detail in a thread last year ; unfortunately I cannot find it for now . Secunia do not work on the PSI at weekends ; they may pick up and comment here on Monday CET , if not you could contact them and refer to this thread by email to support@secunia.com Hope this helps . Anthony -- It always seems impossible until its done. Nelson Mandela |
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