Stop Flash nagging

[Paddy]

"Kevin" (e-mail address removed)> wrote in message
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What nagging? I have never been "nagged" to install Macromedia Flash.
When is this "nagging" taking place? At all times? Just when on the
Macromedia Flash website itself? When on pages that use Flash
animations? When online only?

Some sites... presumably those that use Flash and don't have provision
for non-Flash browsers, prompt me, often multiple times to download
and install Macromedia Flash. I grow weary of this endless barrage.
There is a checkbox on the download prompt... the "nagging", if you
will.... to always trust downloads from that address, but there is no
corresponding checkbox to never bother me about it again.

I don't want Macromedia Flash on my main computer. It is installed on
another in this house, and I cannot tolerate the browsing experience
from that machine. It is dificult enough to read the screen without
animations that distract and compete for my attention, and worsly,
those that rudely block my view until I acknowledge them. The final
straw came when Xtra/MSN, my ISP at the time, used such a device on
their main portal page.

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may.

 

[Randy]

"Kevin" (e-mail address removed)> wrote in message
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Some sites... presumably those that use Flash and don't have provision
for non-Flash browsers, prompt me, often multiple times to download
and install Macromedia Flash. I grow weary of this endless barrage.
There is a checkbox on the download prompt... the "nagging", if you
will.... to always trust downloads from that address, but there is no
corresponding checkbox to never bother me about it again.

I don't want Macromedia Flash on my main computer. It is installed on
another in this house, and I cannot tolerate the browsing experience
from that machine. It is dificult enough to read the screen without
animations that distract and compete for my attention, and worsly,
those that rudely block my view until I acknowledge them. The final
straw came when Xtra/MSN, my ISP at the time, used such a device on
their main portal page.

off topic - problems posting a follow-up... this will arrive how it
may.

Here is one solution. Go ahead and install the flash player. Then go to
IE>Tools>Manage Add-ons and disable the Active X control for Macromedia
Flash.

 

[hog.badger]

Here is one solution. Go ahead and install the flash player. Then go to
IE>Tools>Manage Add-ons and disable the Active X control for Macromedia
Flash.

That sounds good, but I don't appear to have a "Manage Add-ons" option.
I gather that it is a feature of SP2. Is there any way that I can do
this without installing SP2?

 

[Randy]

That sounds good, but I don't appear to have a "Manage Add-ons"
option. I gather that it is a feature of SP2. Is there any way that
I can do this without installing SP2?

Unfortunatly I have SP2 on all my machines. Perhaps an MVP can answer this
one.

 

[Overlord]

Unfortunatly I have SP2 on all my machines. Perhaps an MVP can answer this
one.

Why not kill off ActiveX altogether? Would that do it?
Open IE -> Tools -> Internet Options -> Security ->
Choose Internet or Local Intranet depending on which you want to kill it off in.
Click Custom Level and scroll down till you get to Active X and disable it.
You can always bring it back if you need it for something but it's a security
hole in the first place.
Are these options not available in SP1?

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[hog.badger]

Why not kill off ActiveX altogether? Would that do it?

OK. That is a little over the top, but why not...
Thanks for the help.
Paddy