occam wrote:
> David H. Lipman wrote:
>> From: "occam" <occam@razor.dot.com>
>>
>> | I have installed the latest version of the Flash Player (9.0.28.0).
>> I'm
>> | quite sure, because when I 'verify' the installed version on:
>> | http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ - the page confirms it.
>> |
>> | However when I run Secunia's software inspector
>> | (http://secunia.com/software_inspector/?task=load) it finds an old
>> | version of the Flash Player 7.0.19.0 and flags it as 'Insecure'.
>> This is
>> | in two places on my (Win XP SP2) PC:
>> | C:/WINDOWS/system32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx
>> | and
>> | C:/I386/Flash.ocx
>> |
>> | If my latest install is successful, how come are these old versions
>> stil
>> | here? Do I need them? How can I get rid of them through an uninstall,
>> | without messing up the latest version?
>> |
>> | thanks for any advice
>>
>> You installed the new version but didn't uninstall the OLD version.
>>
>> Open a Command Prompt and type the following two commands...
>>
>> regsvr32 /u C:/WINDOWS/system32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx
>> del C:/WINDOWS/system32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx
>>
>>
>
> David, thanks for this.
> However, the solution looks like messing the the registry - something I
> am wary of (I'd rather not...)
>
> Is there no other way to uninstall old versions? (After all, where have
> all the other intermediate versions of Flash player gone, between
> version 7.0.19.0 and 9.0.28.0. I regularly update when there is a new
> version)

My apologies David. After some searching on the Adobe site, I got the
exact same procedure recommended. (I decided to uninstall all versions
of Flash - it'll have to do without me. :-)