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Deathlike2

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I Hate Flash
« on: January 01, 2010, 12:59:52 PM »
I spent a lot of time cleaning up crap on my hard drive, but older copies of Flash was a bitch to get rid of.
I'm talking about previously installed versions, not the installers.

The Flash uninstaller is the most useless POS when it comes to finding older versions. If anything, I would allow Flash uninstallers to search all hard drives for all old copies of itself for removal, but no, it's retarded.

So, I ended up finding Unlocker to do the dirty deed. Luckily I didn't need something like Process Explorer to unload the damn crap...

For the plugin that makes browsers implode and have shitty ass interfaces on many different websites (and ads especially), they are lucky that hulu doesn't suck and that they are FINALLY getting some sort of hardware acceleration that is sorely needed from their slow ass software.

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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #1 on: January 16, 2010, 09:25:04 AM »
for future reference - search for flash*.dll (npp) and flash*.ocx (activex).
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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2010, 01:29:37 PM »
Easy to find, hard to kill w/o outside help.
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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2010, 02:03:43 PM »
So Flash is the Steven Seagal of digital feces?
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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2010, 06:31:50 PM »
I heard about people having trouble removing Flash from their computers a long time ago.

What exactly makes it tough?
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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2010, 06:33:47 PM »
Flash sets the permissions for the files to not be touched by ANYONE... even if you are admin of your own machine.
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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #6 on: January 17, 2010, 10:43:08 PM »
you can't take ownership of the files then delete them?  the owner should be "trustedinstaller", but you should be able to change that to yourself without much trouble.
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Re: I Hate Flash
« Reply #7 on: January 18, 2010, 12:00:21 AM »
I already have a utility to fix that, but no matter... I don't like the idea that the installer has the privileges... ever.
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