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Thread ID: 52634	2004-12-25 00:20:00	Help! A Christmas computer crisis!	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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307290	2004-12-26 20:13:00	In Internet Explorer tools/internet options/advanced,scroll down to Multimedia/tick play animations in web pages. Thanks for your input zqwerty, but in my opening post I said "All permissions look OK to me" and after several years on PF1 I know most of the fundamentals. Play animations is one of them, but I appreciate your continued input. I am still unwilling to change browsers, I see no need to sidestep the issue in that way as the problem will continue to exist for any web content that requires Flash, not just the current material. Not only that, this problem may affect other users so if the cause can be identified it may be of assistance in the future. I have done no more work on it since yesterday afternoon (because we have a huge extended family dinner on Christmas Day, we have our own family Christmas dinner on Boxing day) but I'll be back at it later this afternoon. My next suspect is Direct-x, I know nothing about it other than it apparently has to be there for Flash to work. I know it is installed on this box, but it may not be functioning, and I don't run any video games at all, so is there a simple way that I can test to see if Direct-x is working correctly? Cheers Billy 8-{) :o	Billy T (70)
307291	2004-12-26 20:29:00	To find out what version and test direct x go to start and in the run box type DXDIAG this will bring up the directx diagnostic tool. This is the ms site for Directx9 (www.microsoft.com) hth	johnboy (217)
307292	2004-12-26 23:11:00	OK, Directx is working fine, but now I have doubts about Activex. Again, all permissions are set correctly, but it appears that Activex is not working. :annoyed: I don't know if I need A-x to run these cards, but the test pages I have found do not seem to work. I haven't found a source to reinstall A-x yet but I'm working on it. Cheers Billy 8-{) :badpc:	Billy T (70)
307293	2004-12-28 00:07:00	Just tell the Rellies thanks for the emails ~ they were enjoyable and brought a smile to yer dial. They will never know you hadn't seen them!	Baldy (26)
307294	2004-12-28 00:30:00	Billy, there is also a virus hidden in Xmas ecards doing the rounds. Maybe your virus checker is stopping the cards from being opened? www.eweek.com	Baldy (26)
307295	2004-12-28 02:14:00	Hi Billy I received an animated interactive ecard from Hallmark from neice in England, and had the devil of a time trying to get it. To play it, I put the Hallmark site in Options>Security>trusted sites and in Privacy>Edit to override cookie options in IE6. Also in the Security bit I also had it on Medium. [also removed the above settings pretty smartly afterwards] Often on these sites, if its macromedia that you need to run it, then Macromedia pops up one of those dialog boxes to tell you to download it [if it's not on your PC]. If it doesn't, just check that the reason isn't because you have a popup blocker. That seemed to work for me. I ran it in IE or Avant Browser, can't remember which. But was damned frustrating getting it to go, also was absolutely useless getting any points on the game in the ecard. :groan: Good luck.	MMM (5660)
307296	2004-12-28 04:03:00	So, here's the update! I still haven't resolved the problem with the PIII550, that is stalled on Active x at the moment because I haven't found why that doesn't go on the test site I have found . I decided to fire up the laptop (Toshiba Portege 3490CT PIII 700) and run them on that, but I hadn't used it for several weeks and initially it refused to boot . That was eventually traced to my own clumsiness when attaching the port replicator so that I could have network access . I didn't seat one plug properly!! :blush: Then it had no sound at all, not even a volume control, and threw up error messages about no mixers installed -yadda yadda yadda, though the usual Windows beeps and whistles worked OK . I uninstalled the soundcard drivers (Yamaha AC-XG), found replacements on Driverguide . com and installed them which brought back all the controls etc but still no sound . My test source was a music CD playing in a PC card out-board CD unit and it remained stubbornly silent despite all my efforts . I was using headphones because the Portege only has a tiny speaker and plugging them direct into the CD player confirmed that the CD was playing OK . I then tried the Xmas cards anyway and they ran fine with full sound to the headphones, so that solved that side of the problem . I am left with two unresolved problems to work on, the original "why won't Flash run" on the PIII 550, and "why doesn't music from the CD get to the sound card" for the Portege . I think 2004 is wreaking its final revenge for some reason, my sins are catching up on me . :groan: Cheers Billy 8-{) :xmouth:	Billy T (70)
307297	2004-12-28 04:29:00	If you have audio from everything apart from the media player then chances are the media player is muted, It has its own volume that generally works independenly of the windows volume,but can mute other apps. Nice work MS. If its not that then it will be a setting under audio either related to device used for audio playback,or one of the multitude volume settings in the cp. on the version of media player i have f8 is mute,though i do believe earlier versions used f7.	Metla (12)
307298	2004-12-28 04:38:00	Futhermore,to better the chances of the flash animation working,fire up spybot,then advanced mode,tools,Then BHO's,and delete em all,then do the same for activex controls,delete all them suckers. Then fire up IE,delete all offline files,yadda yadda yadda,go into the advanced settings and set to default. Then try and view the flash again,though it will need to download and install the player once again....	Metla (12)
307299	2004-12-28 06:13:00	Futhermore,to better the chances of the flash animation working,fire up spybot,then advanced mode,tools,Then BHO's,and delete em all,then do the same for activex controls,delete all them suckers . OK I'm willing to try anything at this stage Metla, but forgive my ignorance, what the heck is a BHO? I'd better know before I delete something I might later regret . :eek: Cheers Billy 8-{) ;) Oh yes, and by media player do you mean WMP? I never gave a thought to what might be actually playing the darned sound file . All mutes are off in the mixer etc but I haven't looked beyond that .	Billy T (70)
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