Flash Player 4GB???

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In Add/Remove Programs list I have:
Macromedia Flash Player 4,095.00MB!
I double and triple checked the figure I was seeing.
Looked in Explorer and couldn't find a program folder for this.
Surely that figure can't be right for what is only a plugin to view Flash in
IE and occasionally saved animations?
I intend to get rid of it but am very curious about it. Also is there an
alternative to the Macromedia player?
 
Doing a Search for files above 3950KB (appears to be a 4GB limit in Find)
comes up with nothing, strange!
 
Kenny said:
In Add/Remove Programs list I have:
Macromedia Flash Player 4,095.00MB!
I double and triple checked the figure I was seeing.
Looked in Explorer and couldn't find a program folder for this.
Surely that figure can't be right for what is only a plugin to view Flash in
IE and occasionally saved animations?
I intend to get rid of it but am very curious about it. Also is there an
alternative to the Macromedia player?
Click to expand...

The algorithm that calculates the size that is shown in Add/Remove programs
is unfortunately notoriously inaccurate. Don't rely on that number for
anything meaningful.
--
Tom Porterfield
MS-MVP Windows
http://support.telop.org

Please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup only.
 
The plot thickens. When I tried to remove it a Macromedia dialogue box
comes up with:

Error 1606. Could not access network location
%USERPROFILE%\Recent\

Anyone know what's going on?
 
On my PC, Macromedia Flash takes up 40,960bytes (40 KB). As Tom says, the
calculation results in the decimal point being incorrectly positioned.
 
Thanks for all the replies.

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Kenny Cargill


J&P said:
On my PC, Macromedia Flash takes up 40,960bytes (40 KB). As Tom says, the
calculation results in the decimal point being incorrectly positioned.
Click to expand...
 
Regarding a substitute for Flash Player, I don't know that there is one.
However, I've managed quite nicely to function without it. Not all sites
have content that require it and many of those that do don't need it for
anything crucial.
 
I think the best way to delete a macromedia flash from what I have read is
to got to macromedia and install their uninstaller, I've tried it and it
worked ok for me
hope this was of help
jess
 
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