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re: You Tube
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 8:57 am
Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ed
(569 messages posted)
128 MB is more than enough memory to run YouTube successfully. I ran WinME with only
64MB, and had no problems on YouTube.
The problems you are having will have more to do with your browser and with your
browser's Macromedia Flash plug-in. YouTube is highly sensitive to the version of
the browser, and to the version of the browser's Flash plug-in.
YouTube uses Flash, and uses it so intensively that earlier versions of Internet
Explorer and Flash cannot cope properly, and will quickly crash. At least that was
my experience before I upgraded. But the upgrades solved the problem.
I use Internet Explorer, and for browsing YouTube.com I upgraded to Internet Explorer
6 (in fact to version 6.0.2800.1106). There are certain DLL files which have been
improved between IE5 and IE6, and I found that these are necessary to cope with the
technical requirements of Flash on YouTube.
To upgrade to IE6 go here: http://www.oldapps.com/internet_explorer.htm
Interestingly, some versions of the Flash plugin are reported elsewhere to make IE7
crash, so don't consider upgrading to IE7. However, IE6 is stable with the following
Flash plugin installed, in my experience. If you are running IE5, try installing
the Flash plugin upgrade before upgrading to IE6. I found that I had to upgrade to
IE6, but you might not need to.
I had to upgrade the Macromedia Flash plugin - now owned by Adobe - to the Adobe
Flash Player 9.0 release 46 plugin (based on the ActiveX file C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH\Flash9d.ocx),
which I find runs successfully on Windows ME with IE6.
To upgrade the Flash plugin to version 9.0 you need flashutil9d.exe which installs
Flash9d.ocx (the Adobe Flash Player 9 ActiveX control). Try this site: http://www.badongo.com/file/4016111
If you have any problem with doing the Flash upgrade, the trick is to uninstall the
previous version of Flash first. There is an uninstaller tool on the Adobe website;
or execute the uninstaller program at C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\MACROMED\FLASH\uninstall_activeX.exe
(if present).
Ed
- Written in response to:
- re: You Tube (Keith Stanier: Monday, February 11, 2008 at 3:17 pm)
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