Add-ons

[gardenmad]

Hello all you technophiles, please answer the following in simple language a five year old could understand:

A message on my computer reads: an add-on for this site failed to run - check your security settings on Internet Options for potential conflicts. What does this mean and how can I rectify it. (I am trying to install a flash player - I have been so worried about messages of potential threats, viruses, et al, that I have downloaded stuff which probably is blocking ordinary things...)

The computer is a Vista Compaq Home Basic.

Sorry to waste your time, but I can't be this dim!

[ACtheTROLL]

it should also say click here to install

usually a light yellow band will appear accross the top of the browser window - click on it ... and whatever is being stopped is allowed

now go get your daddy - see if he'll get you a dolly

[ACtheTROLL]

ps - isn't a technophile someone who interferes with new (young) technology (shudder)

[another-view]

lol a technophile is a lover of technology, as a Francophile or bibliophile is a lover of France and books. The word paedophile is a misuse of the suffix phile.

[gardenmad]

Thank you ACT I have done as you said but on that yellow line came the message ...an addon-on for this site failed to run - check your security settings...... which I do but it's all Greek to me. What do I do now?

Can you be quick as its nearly time for my milk and biscuits....

Thanks another- view, I may become a technophobe before the day is done.

[gardenmad]

Come on, ACT, please give me the benefit of your knowledge and experience - I have none of either, or tell me a website that might help me???

Pleeeease.....

[ACtheTROLL]

woa ... patience ... I've got two blokes errecting ... an aerial ... here ... drilling and banging ... ;-)

your security settings are in tools | internet options | security

I've just updated mine
it's set to medium high - I've just visited
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

and the droppy downy thing did what I said ... click ... then another window - install

two mins ... all ok

if you still can't ... drop the

security to medium - see if that does it ... but don't forget to set it back.


another view ... I once made luuurv to a princess ... does that make me a carophile?

[gardenmad]

You're brilliant, ACT, but I expect you know that - I did what you said and it worked!! Thank you so much - sorry I am so late in replying, went out yesterday before you had replied, came back with headache, went to bed, better now thank God, raring to go with the flash player! Thanks again.

I expect it is all second nature to you, but no one tells you these things - you said put your security settings back, I wouldn't have done that if you hadn't said.....

[ACtheTROLL]

just a lucky guess