Posts made by ajurek

@scottalanmiller said:

@ajurek said:

Not sure if I completely agree with this. I would define a distro as an OS with a custom configuration and additional software installed. These are the things that make them unique.

The only issue is that there is no OS on which to build the distros. Each distro builds its own OS from the ground up, there is no common starting point.

The most basic distros like Debian, Slackware, Suse and Fedora build from nothing to full OS / distro. Then, it is true, other distros like Ubuntu and RHEL build on top of these or from these or whatever. But every OS build on Linux is a distro. So while it is potentially extra stuff that makes them different, there is no common OS on which they are built.

I agree that the "parent" distro's (Debian, Slackware & RedHat) should be classified as full OS's. They started the "original base". But then others branched them off into different look/feel/software variations that I call distros. They are modified version of the "parents", so the "parents" would be the OS that they are all based off of. Wouldn't they?

@DustinB3403 said:

So rather than farting around with the .exe the client sent I simply extracted the .swf files from the executables and have those.

They seem to work without issue.

Used this tool to extract with.

That works! That at least tells you that it was the way they made the exe that had issues, not the content in it.

@scottalanmiller said:

A distro is an operating system built on the Linux kernel. A kernel is useless on its own and needs and operating system around it to do something. Just like the NT Kernel has Windows, the Linux kernel gets an OS too. Each OS built on Linux is called a "Linux Distribution or Distro." Each distro represents a full operating system. Examples of Linux based operating systems (distros) would include: Linux Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL and CentOS, Suse, OpenSuse, Arch, Gentoo, Debian, etc.

Not sure if I completely agree with this. I would define a distro as an OS with a custom configuration and additional software installed. These are the things that make them unique.

They all have the same basic OS components. The kernel, some sort of interface and hardware support. They may be different versions, but same components.

The different shell's (BASH, CSH, etc), GUI's (Gnome, KDE, etc) service managers (systemd, SYS-V, etc), package manager (yum, apt-get, etc) and may other things are what makes each distro different from the rest.

But then, this is just my opinion.

@DustinB3403 said:

Windows 7 pro 64 bit

Back to the basic then. Did they ever play?

If the OS has been updated recently, maybe an update broken some functionalty. Remember Flash is dying (if not dead), so compatibility issues may start to pop up.

You can also try running msconfig and turn off all start up programs and restart. That will tell you if another application is causing the issue.

If not, then like @Jason said, it may be a drivers issue.

@DustinB3403 said:

It's a flash executable file..

Not even using the browser....

What OS?

@DustinB3403 said:

@ajurek Same issue, just attempted it with the Flash application crashing when launching the files from the users system.

What browser? Have you cleared the cache? Any addons/plugins/extensions loading in the browser? Have you tried to load the browser without addons/plugins/extensions?

@DustinB3403 said:

From the control panel, I saw something online about just clearing the internet history (which I hadn't thought about yesterday)

Try the link I provided and see if that helps. The Control Panel uninstall doesn't always remove everything.

@DustinB3403 How did you perform the uninstall? Did you use the Control Panel, or the uninstall utility from Adobe?

I agree with @Reid-Cooper. Have you tried it on another PC? It may not be the system. I have had companies send me PDF's that wouldn't open in Adobe Reader because they were made from a third party system. Could be a similar thing going on here.

@art_of_shred I know of it. Close to Geneso isn't it? I have a friend that lives in Warsaw, which isn't to far from yourself and Geneso.

Thank you @Reid-Cooper!

Thanks @art_of_shred ! I work in Amherst, live in Lockport. Been to Batavia a few times. Nice area.

+1 for Spiceworks for me as well.