Flash9boxc

[Brian]

I do a registry scan to clean up and fix problems once a week and I keep
getting 1 error for a missing file
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9bocx I can't seam to fix it. I have
gone out online and tried software and but still shows as missing. Any ideas?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Brian" <[email protected]>

| I do a registry scan to clean up and fix problems once a week and I keep
| getting 1 error for a missing file
| C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9bocx I can't seam to fix it. I have
| gone out online and tried software and but still shows as missing. Any ideas?

You mean...
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9b.ocx

There are vulnerabilities in it, get rid of it !

regsvr32 /u C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9b.ocx
del C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9b.ocx

Then go to Adobe.Com and install Flash v10.x

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

What David said.

Think your Registry needs "cleaning" or "repairing"? Read
http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099 and draw your own conclusions.

 

[The Real Truth MVP]

Getting that error when you boot or from the registry scanner? Which scanner
is it? Try CCleaner from here http://www.ccleaner.com/ install it and when
you run it select the registry icon on the left to clean your registry. Let
it fix all but choose to backup when prompted. Your problem should then be
fixed.

 

[db.·.. >]

you can open the
registry and delete
the key.

click start>run>regedit.

then do a find for the
filename and delete
the key.

in addition you can use
this:

http://onecare.live.com/site/en-US/article/registry_cleaner_why.htm
---------------

the file is version 9
and likely removed
when you installed
version 10, but left
the registry dirty.



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DatabaseBen, Retired Professional
- Systems Analyst
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[Ken Blake]

I do a registry scan to clean up and fix problems once a week and I keep
getting 1 error for a missing file
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9bocx I can't seam to fix it. I
have
gone out online and tried software and but still shows as missing. Any
ideas?

Follow David Lipman's advice.

If that's the only problem you've had, consider yourself lucky. Registry
cleaning programs are *all* snake oil. Cleaning of the registry isn't needed
and is dangerous. Leave the registry alone and don't use any registry
cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what vendors of registry
cleaning software try to convince you of, having unused registry entries
doesn't really hurt you.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit it may
have.

 

[Twayne]

Follow David Lipman's advice.

If that's the only problem you've had, consider yourself lucky.

Heck, I've been "lucky" for many years, then.

Registry cleaning programs are *all* snake oil.

That's just plain silly and wrong.

Cleaning of the

registry isn't needed and is dangerous.

"Needed" is indeed often debatable. "Dangerous" is not. A decent
registry cleaner is no more dangerous than a disk defragmentation
program, restoring from backup or any of the many good applications that
work under the hood to keep an OS running efficiently and reliably.

Leave the registry alone and

don't use any registry cleaner.

... Despite what many people think,

and what this poster thinks,

and

what vendors of registry cleaning software try to convince you of,

Just like the vendor of ANY application, especially the MS Windows hype
of each version being perfect compared to the last,

having unused registry entries doesn't really hurt you.

No, unused registry entries probably will not "hurt" him. Until one
gets accidentally accessed by an app, intercepts an installer and
confuses it, or still looks for something not present, etc. etc..
Unused entries is but one of a plethora of possibilities, many of which
can cause problems. The you have the reliability factor: With say 1,000
entries, you get sort of a MTBF of x. With 2,000 entries, that becomes
2x. And 3x, and so on.

The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner erroneously
removing an entry you need is far greater than any potential benefit
it may have.

No, not at all. It is simply an indication that maybe the Restore
feature of the cleaner should be used to put the entry back if it caused
problems. But that seldom happens and I have NEVER in all my years of
using them, had a registry cleaner cause any serious damage of ANY kind
to the computer I used it on. The last time I used a registry cleaner
was last Thursday. IFF this poster has ever used a registry cleaner at
all, it was probably back in the days of computer antiquity unless he
doesn't follow his own advice. It's the only reason I can think of as
to why this poster has never once provided any in the way of supporting
or validating his claims.

To the OP, I've seen some decent suggestions from a couple others who
asked questions but I seem to have missed your answers to them, or you
have not provided them. That, IMO would be the best thing you can do
for yourself at the moment. I seem to recall something about you have
version 10 and that's a version 9 file; that's the area of the posts I'm
referring to.

Twayne

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Twayne" <[email protected]>



| To the OP, I've seen some decent suggestions from a couple others who
| asked questions but I seem to have missed your answers to them, or you
| have not provided them. That, IMO would be the best thing you can do
| for yourself at the moment. I seem to recall something about you have
| version 10 and that's a version 9 file; that's the area of the posts I'm
| referring to.

| Twayne

No Twayne, the OP did NOT indicate he had Flasg v10.
I indicated that he had a vulnerable version (BTW: with exploit code in the wild) and that
he should unregister the OCX file and then delete the OCX file and I suggested he get
Flash v10.

 

[Allan]

I do a registry scan to clean up and fix problems once a week and I keep
getting 1 error for a missing file
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9bocx I can't seam to fix it. I
have
gone out online and tried software and but still shows as missing. Any
ideas?

Adobe provides on their website an uninstaller utility called
"uninstall_flash_player.exe". After you download it open a command window
and navigate to the folder where you downloaded the installer using "cd".
Then type "uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean". You can then attempt to
update to FP 10. I don't think it is necessary to use the Registry Editor at
all to clean up after old versions of flash player are uninstalled ;just use
the uninstallers which Adobe usually provides when it releases new updates
of Macromedia FP. Do *not* use "Add/Remove Programs" to uninstall it. I was
using FP 10 beta for about four months and now have the "final release"
version installed.