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Ted C
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I'll be very glad when I leave my current job for my new one next week. The state doesn't keep its web browsers updated, and I don't have admin rights to my box, so I can't do it myself. Consequently, the installed version of IE doesn't have current Flash drivers and such, so advertisements regularly crash it.

Annoying as hell.

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Destructionator XIII wrote:Disable Flash? Tools->internet options->...something... and uncheck one of the boxes in there.
He must be running IE7 to do that and by the sounds of things he has an older browser as well.
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Post by phongn »

Destructionator XIII wrote:EDIT: Of course, this was Win98, so a limited user might be a problem in doing this in 2k or XP; I wouldn't know for sure.
You can remove the ActiveX control if you have the access rights.
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I get around the access rights problem by just installing Firefox on a portable flash drive and plugging that into whatever computer I happen to be at.
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Rogue 9 wrote:I get around the access rights problem by just installing Firefox on a portable flash drive and plugging that into whatever computer I happen to be at.
I would not do that at a workplace computer.
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