January 31st, 2017, 04:42 PM
This system definitely had problems. There is a high possibility that system files were corrupted. However, the user was unable to run actual hardware diagnostics....
January 31st, 2017, 03:00 AM
Hmm, looks like they changed to Adobe Flash at some point. I don't have Chrome 49, since I don't run XP on any of my systems (except for test VMs).
In any case, both Chrome and Firefox use...
January 31st, 2017, 01:55 AM
Disable PepperFlash in Chrome: http://www.enounce.com/chrome-disable-pepperflash
Again, it's the same Adobe Flash that Firefox uses. If you can't get it to work with Firefox, it probably won't...
January 31st, 2017, 01:39 AM
The built-in version of Pepperflash in Chrome49 is outdated. You would have had to disable the built-in Flash and installed Adobe Flash.
It's getting close to 3 years since Microsoft dropped XP...
January 30th, 2017, 08:25 PM
That's not what I said. Google discontinued XP support as of Chrome 50. You could still use Chrome 49 with the built-in Pepperflash. The plugin version of Adobe Flash would be the same for both...
January 30th, 2017, 01:52 PM
I'd still like to get confirmation if this system is the same XP system that had problems. If so, it's futile to work on software problems right now....
January 30th, 2017, 04:52 AM
Are you still on the "bad" XP system? If so, I wouldn't be surprised if things weren't working properly.
January 29th, 2017, 01:22 PM
Are you sure you have the correct installer? IE and Firefox use different Flash installers.
Uninstall Flash and then reinstall.
These are the uninstall instructions from Adobe:...
January 29th, 2017, 01:34 AM
How did you try to update Flash? Did you download the actual installer from Adobe? Or were you prompted by a website? There are a LOT of false Flash error messages.
Get the updater from here. Make...