Warning in email was received a day too late....

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Sunday, I received this in email

~~~
" Warning:

Adobe Flash: piss on the upgrade!!! It fks up videos: introduces
stutter and echo into the sound."

I had upgraded flash Saturday morning and spent the afternoon working to
restore my sound system, not knowing the problem was *probably*
Flash..........

Strangely, though the problem had survived a reboot on Saturday afternoon,
by Sunday morning it appeared to be 99% cleared up.

The Flash version reports as 11.3.300.262 (I am not on auto-update, so
unless they pushed a fix during the night that disregarded settings, this
is the culprit)

jim
 
jim said:
The Flash version reports as 11.3.300.262 (I am not on auto-update, so
unless they pushed a fix during the night that disregarded settings, this
is the culprit)
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Software companies never use email for software update notifications, at
least not with that kind of foul language. That email is likely a pishing
mail that contains a fake link to the software update.

If you did use that link to download anything and run it, I suggest you do a
full system scan for viruses.
 
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 16:17:03 +0000 (UTC), in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.general, JJ
Software companies never use email for software update notifications, at
least not with that kind of foul language. That email is likely a pishing
mail that contains a fake link to the software update.

If you did use that link to download anything and run it, I suggest you do a
full system scan for viruses.
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The email was not from a software company and contained no links.

I have been on the adobe sites and forums this morning and found
directions provided for downgrading to the release previous from the one I
show since the problems described in the email are now known problems of
that release. Release 11.3.300.262 is a problem for enough systems so
that adobe has provided specific instructions to downgrade it. The
downgrade process is slightly more than just ripping the new one out and
slapping the old one in.
 
jim said:
Sunday, I received this in email

~~~
" Warning:

Adobe Flash: piss on the upgrade!!! It fks up videos: introduces
stutter and echo into the sound."
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Oh, you really think you get notification of updates from Adobe via
e-mail? Uh huh. And, of course, this certainly looks like an e-mail
sent from Adobe, uh huh, sure. Stop yanking our chain. You already
know Adobe didn't send that e-mail.
I had upgraded flash Saturday morning and spent the afternoon working
to restore my sound system, not knowing the problem was *probably*
Flash..........
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Flash is not a sound card/chip driver. It's a *player* app.
Strangely, though the problem ...
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Which you have to describe.
... had survived a reboot on Saturday afternoon, by Sunday morning it
appeared to be 99% cleared up.
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Your computer has acne?
The Flash version reports as 11.3.300.262 (I am not on auto-update, so
unless they pushed a fix during the night that disregarded settings, this
is the culprit)
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The culprit for WHAT?


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Explain YOUR computing environment and just what actions you take to
reproduce the problem - and describe the problem so OTHERS know of what
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Regarding error or status messages:
- Do NOT omit the message.
- Do NOT describe the message.
- Do NOT summarize the message.
- Do NOT paraphrase the message.
- Do NOT truncate the message.
- Do show the ENTIRE message (but munge or star out personal info,
like your username in an e-mail address but not the domain).
And DETAIL the steps to reproduce the error or problem.
 
VanguardLH said:
Regarding error or status messages:
- Do NOT omit the message.
- Do NOT describe the message.
- Do NOT summarize the message.
- Do NOT paraphrase the message.
- Do NOT truncate the message.
- Do show the ENTIRE message (but munge or star out personal info,
like your username in an e-mail address but not the domain).
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And why on earth does Microsoft have error messages that you can't copy the text
directly to paste into posts or google?
 
Bob said:
And why on earth does Microsoft have error messages that you can't copy the text
directly to paste into posts or google?
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http://lifehacker.com/268547/copy-error-messages-text-to-the-clipboard

As a test, I opened a .doc file. MS Word opens the file and leave a
handle on the open file (unlike Notepad which reads into memory and then
releases the file). Then I tried to delete the .doc file (while it was
still loaded in Word). I got an error dialog saying:

---------------------------
Error Deleting File or Folder
---------------------------
Cannot delete DumpingViolation: The file is in use by the following
program:

Microsoft Office Word

You must close the file before proceeding.
 
VanguardLH said:
So how did I get that text out of the error popup? Yep, I used Ctrl+C.
I heard an error beep when I hit Ctrl+C but the text content of the
error dialog got copied into the Windows clipboard. It works.
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That won't work all the time. Some crappy softwares uses patethic skinning
without using standard Windows API. Especially for those that use *nix based
UI framework.
 
JJ said:
That won't work all the time. Some crappy softwares uses patethic
skinning without using standard Windows API.
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In that case, and assuming I'm not willing to manually transcribe the
EXACT contents of the error dialog, I'd do a screen capture. I might
use Alt+PrtScrn to see if I can capture the contents of the currently
active window (which should be the dialog window if I haven't changed
focus or some other app is set for always-on-top focus). If that
doesn't work, use PrtScrn and then paste into Paint to slice out
everything other than the error dialog. I already have a screen capture
utility (built into a clipboard manager called ClipMate) where I can
select to capture a window or a region. There are even more capable
screen capture utilities, like PicPick, and which are *free*. Once you
have the screen capture of the error dialog, upload it to publicly
accessible online file storage and provide a link to it in your message.
Obviously the error would have to be rather long for me to spend all
that time doing to capture and upload instead of just transcribing an
EXACT copy of the error message.

There are even some screen capture utilities that will use character
recognition to output the text that was within the captured area. Some
examples are mentioned at http://www.capturetext.com/. Those are
payware. Alternatively, you could capture the screen image and use a
free OCR program (e.g., SimpleOCR) to convert to text.

If you can see it, you can capture it. While you mention a possible
exception to using the hotkey, Ctrl+C will work in many cases. I
specifically addressed Bob's statement of Microsoft error messages and
copying their text.
Especially for those that use *nix based UI framework.
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You'll have to figure out your own solution under *NIX or whatever
Windows emulator you are using there. I wasn't addressing issues with
obtaining the text content of an error dialog under *NIX or under an OS
emulator running there. This newsgroup discusses Windows XP.
 
jim said:
Sunday, I received this in email

~~~
" Warning:

Adobe Flash: piss on the upgrade!!! It fks up videos: introduces
stutter and echo into the sound."

I had upgraded flash Saturday morning and spent the afternoon working to
restore my sound system, not knowing the problem was *probably*
Flash..........

Strangely, though the problem had survived a reboot on Saturday afternoon,
by Sunday morning it appeared to be 99% cleared up.

The Flash version reports as 11.3.300.262 (I am not on auto-update, so
unless they pushed a fix during the night that disregarded settings, this
is the culprit)

jim
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Sound system is not a Flash Player problem...

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player 11.1 r102
version 11.1.102.55

Pug-inns
Description: Shockwave Flash 11.3 r300
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\NPSWF32_11_3_300_262.dll
application/futuresplash FutureSplash movie spl
application/x-shockwave-flash Adobe Flash movie swf,swt

Sound system is a Windows or your Sound Chp drive problems......
 
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