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Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It?

From BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom>
Newsgroups comp.sys.laptops
Subject Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It?
Date 2012-08-20 16:15 -0500
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On 8/20/2012 3:53 PM, Ron wrote:
> After re-installing everything there's still one thing that doesn't
> work right on my system: whenever I try to play an audio clip on
> Wikipedia using IE8 or Opera 8.5 I get a message telling me I need
> some special kind of player. So I downloaded and installed Java but
> have no idea what player to use with it. Can anyone help with this
> problem?
>
> Ron

It sounds like you probably need the Adobe Flash Player. Although the 
websites should tell you this if it is missing. The Flash Player should 
be listed in the Control Panel if it is there. And you probably need one 
for IE and one for Opera. So you have to install two different versions.

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/

-- 
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - Thunderbird v12
Centrino Core2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz - 4GB - Windows 7 SP1

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A  Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Ron <orion@centurylink.net> - 2012-08-20 13:53 -0700
  Re: A  Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? BillW50 <BillW50@aol.kom> - 2012-08-20 16:15 -0500
    Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Ron <orion@centurylink.net> - 2012-08-21 00:02 -0700
      Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Adrian C <email@here.invalid> - 2012-08-21 08:43 +0100
      Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? "Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> - 2012-08-22 14:59 +0100
        Re: A Bad Cup Of Java and A Player To Go With It? Ron <orion@centurylink.net> - 2012-08-23 10:02 -0700

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