Thursday, May 7, 2009

Fixing a problem with Adobe Shockwave Player

Today, after re-installing Windows 7, I couldn't get the Shockwave Player to work, because a message popped up saying "Your system is not supported". I laughed, because it worked fine last week with the same system it has today. However, there was a problem, after I once more downloaded the so-called "full" version of the Shockwave Player Installer. In these newer ones,the Adobe people have separated out the many little Xtras plug-ins that made it all go nicely. So the full version really isn't, unless you add those Xtras. I like to play a little board game from the British Museum's Ancient Egypt site, and for that, I need all the Xtras. Maybe you have the same sort of problems these days with Adobe's stuff. Their left hand doesn't know what their right hand is doing. So here's where to get all those extras you need - and when you start to click the little window, and another pops up for something else, just keep on clicking until you get the whole three downloads or so. The website is as follows:-
http://www.junction-18.com/plugins/xtras.htm
Once those are installed, your Shockwave Player will work just fine. Mine does.

3 comments:

  1. That worked fine. Many thanks for your advice.

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  2. IT WORKED!!! Thanks. Before loading these extras, the volume control on Shockwave was stuck on "Mute".
    Thanks again.

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  3. Thanks alot for the advise.

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