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XP and Adobe Flash Player

guy999
guy999 Posts: 325 Forumite
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Hi
Trying to use my internet banking plus with First Direct.
Trouble is can't get adobe to work any more. Ive re installed IE 8.

When i go to ...//get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ even this screeen is totally blank.
I have Avast, turned this off in active protection webshield.. but doesnt make a difference.


Any ideas?
Thanks
A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
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  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Its something on your PC blocking flash download as the site works fine .

    Try turning off all security .
  • Fightsback
    Fightsback Posts: 2,504 Forumite
    edited 14 August 2015 at 11:30AM
    Xp, IE ,flash and online banking !

    Might as well walk around Bucharest waving your wallet about. Upgrade to a supported OS, at the very least use chrome or firefox as a browser on XP.
    Science isn't exact, it's only confidence within limits.
  • guy999
    guy999 Posts: 325 Forumite
    Thanks, have disabled all options in Avast, still not work.
    First Direct program doesnot work with Firefox, have downloaded chrome. Not work with this either. Says only works with IE.

    Also just tried youtube, only get black screen where the movie clip should be playing.
    A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

    A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
    the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
  • guy999
    guy999 Posts: 325 Forumite
    Just rebooted, with youtube now get a message that web browser is no longer supported... using ie8 which was the last release for XP...
    A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

    A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
    the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
  • giraffe69
    giraffe69 Posts: 3,613 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Is this God's way of telling you to upgrade? Not great to risk too much with things like banking.
  • guy999
    guy999 Posts: 325 Forumite
    Understand, pc is like 15 years old maybe more, an old intel celeron 1.8.
    Was fine for things like this until now! Just dont like to scrap it off when it worked so well.
    A shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist.

    A young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent,
    the helpless, the powerless, in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
  • somersethillbilly
    somersethillbilly Posts: 524 Forumite
    edited 14 August 2015 at 12:36PM
    So put Firefox on it, and use instead of IE8

    PS posting this from a an XP machine with a 1.2GHz Celeron.
  • zaax
    zaax Posts: 1,914 Forumite
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    Use http://www.ubuntu.com/ instead of XP
    Do you want your money back, and a bit more, search for 'money claim online' - They don't like it up 'em Captain Mainwaring
  • tronator
    tronator Posts: 2,859 Forumite
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    guy999 wrote: »
    Just dont like to scrap it off when it worked so well.

    Obviously it doesn't anymore.

    As already suggested, try Ubuntu or in your case Xubuntu, as it uses less recources.

    I also would think of switching banks. I can't believe that there are banks which only work with IE and Flash :eek:
  • pmartin86
    pmartin86 Posts: 776 Forumite
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    First direct works fine without IE I can assure you, either that or IE on my machine has been hiding behind the firefox logo and layout for the last few years....
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