ladymcquaid

Man, I'm just full of problems today! Well, here goes again. Everytime I go to a site that requires flash, I'm redirected to the macromedia site to download flash, but the only thing I ever see to download is the little 472kb file, which only gives me an error after downloading (can't quite remember what it says, don't have it in front of me, but something along the lines of " this is not a file that can be " , ah, what the heck, I can't remember, best not to make stuff up Anyway, does anyone have any clue what I'm talking about, or how to do this? Thanks. I'm not having a brain fart, I AM a brain fart...

PS - sorry, this doesn't belong in this section.

jlowemania

If you downloaded the file on your PDA, it probably won't open if it is a normal .exe file. Try copying it to your computer and running it there, and let ActiveSync install it. Hope this works!

Gerard Samija

This might help. If you go to freecabs here:
http://people.freenet.de/FreeCabs/programs.htm

then scroll down to where it says FlashPlayer.zip and download that, it contains a folder called 1 which contains a file called activez.cab. Unpack this either on your PC or PPC (Resco, TotalCommanderCE, PocketRAR, or a bunch of things will unpack a ZIP on a PPC) and then launch the CAB file to install Flash. Most Flash content embedded in pages will now show up in Pocket IE.

You can go further and add a program to create your own HTM documents to display local SWF files, a little thing called FlashBrowser... or there is something called Atom or something like that... and there's another, something like Flyht... But anyway, for basic Flash functionality the above CAB file should do the trick. Easier to get than jumping all the hell over Macromedia's lame site.

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