Can't play SWF files form harddrive with SP-2

[Andrew]

After installing SP-2 on my XP-Pro System did I
encountered no problems (so far) except one.

Any kind of Flashmovie (swf files) does start The Windows
Media Player and then brings the Security alert:
"Your current security settings do now allow this action."

Surprisingly do swf files on the Internet with IE still
work fine. Just all local files give me the same message
above.

I checked in Control Panel 'Internet Options'
and 'Security Center' without finding any solution there.
Then I looked in media Player under TOOLS/OPTIONS under
FILE TYPES and discovered with surprise that swf files
are not listed as supported files.

Even I had Macromedia already on my PC did I installed it
again but the condition does not change. Still all local
swf files give me the same message and swf files on the
Internet play fine in IE.

I can't imagine that I am the only one with this problem.
I hope someone has a tip how to fix it as I wouldn't like
to uninstall the SP-2 just for being able to access my
swf collection again.

Andrew

 

[Torgeir Bakken \(MVP\)]

After installing SP-2 on my XP-Pro System did I
encountered no problems (so far) except one.

Any kind of Flashmovie (swf files) does start The Windows
Media Player and then brings the Security alert:
"Your current security settings do now allow this action."

Surprisingly do swf files on the Internet with IE still
work fine. Just all local files give me the same message
above.

I checked in Control Panel 'Internet Options'

Hi

Try this:

In the 'Internet Options', select the Advanced tab.

Under Security, enable
"Allow active content to run in files on My Computer"


Hope this helps

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the very fast reply and for your tip.

Unfortunately did I do that part already. Marking:

'Allow active content from CDs to run on My Computer'
and
'Allow active content to run in files om My Compuer'

are both checked, no change.
I am now meanwhile pretty sure that the problem is that
Media Player in SP-2 does not support anymore flashmovies-
swf. Otherwise would the file type be listed under
OPTIONS under the tab 'FILE TYPES'.
But there should be a way to add them somehow so that the
player accepts them too again.
Terying to assign over Explorer swf files to Macromedia
directly didn't worked either.

I was meanwhile able to play a few swf files via
RealPlayer which is a very uncomfortable program and I
not like to use if I can avoid it.
Most flash movies didn't run on it anyway as it seems to
try to stream them.
But that some work under Realplayer is proof that it is
Media Player refusing to play the SWF files as MS seemed
to take them out of the supported file types.

Is there any way how to add a working version of
Macromedia or any other swf player out there which I can
use?

Andrew