How to set up flash player

How to set up flash player

Flash Player is a small program that allows you to play video and animation on web sentences. Flash technology for the first time appeared on the Internet in 1995 and is currently an analogue of a virtual machine loading and reproducing multimedia information.

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Flash Player is available not only on personal computers and laptops, but also on products with an operating system Android. There are restrictions on using flash technology on Apple devices (iPhone, iPod, iPad), Windows Phone 7 and some other designed for developers.

Flash

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You can download the flash player for free and without restrictions with official page of the Adobe site. Current version 0.0.0.134 provides the following system requirements ( for Mac OS and Linux look here):

  • Processor from 2.33GHz or Intel Atom 1.6GHz for netbooks;
  • Windows XP, Server 2008 or 2012, Vista, Win or 8 operating system;
  • Browsers: IE from 8.0, Firefox 17, Google Chrome or Opera 11;
  • 512 MB of RAM for PC and from 1 GB for netbooks;
  • Video card from 128 MB.

Flash download

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Together with the flash player there is an opportunity to establish anti-virus protection McAfee Security Scan Plus. If you already have a good antivirus, make sure it will allow you to start the installer from ADOB. To complete the installation, open the downloads folder and click on the received .exe file in the prevention of the security system boldly click "Run".

Flash installation

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So that the flash is always up to date, remained tuned and worked, like a clock, in this window we put a mark on the "Allow Adobe to install updates" item. The remaining items should choose if you wish to independently control the process.

Flash Help

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Serious Flash Technology Competit is Microsoft Silverlight. In addition to the virtue of the merits, the flash player has certain disadvantages, including a significant load of computer resources, difficulty working with errors, availability of vulnerabilities (including those that allow you to receive remote access to the chamber). Acquainted with the possibilities of Silverlight can be referenced to the Microsoft website.

Silverlight

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Many mobile devices use an analogue of a flash player called Flash Lite. The most recent current version (FL3) is also posted on the ADOB website and is based on Flash 8. Its key features:

  • Support format FLV.;
  • Higher performance;
  • Extension MMI for user Interface Design;
  • Multiplatform.

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Configure flash can also with third-party means, for example, using the Settings Manager application. It will control Flash Player through Adobe Macromedia website, customize:

  • storage parameters, information playback;
  • improve PC user security;
  • enter individual settings for each specific site;
  • transfer settings from one computer to another.

Setting Manager

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It should be noted that SHOCKWAVE Player from the same Adobe company is considered more advanced than the usual Flash. It is compatible with all popular browsers, is used by more than 500,000 computers in the world. It turns on and turns off in the same place where the flash is in the browser settings, on the plug-ins and supplements panel.

Shockweave

Let's summarize: so that the flash player worked properly, it is enough to allow it to update itself to the most relevant version. For extended settings, there is online Setting Manager. You should also keep in mind possible alternatives, like Flashlite, Silverlight and Shokwave.

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