Re: KB943460 prevents SWF files from playing

"jmowrey" <> wrote in message
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> Good morning all,
>
> I've recently run into an issue with IE6 playing SWF files. As of now
> when i try to play a SWF file within IE6 I get nothing but a white
> screen. If I remove KB943460 the files play correctly.
>
> My situation is that I have a vendor application that plays local SWF
> files on our workstations. The vendor app has a local cache of SWF
> content files that it plays based on triggered events. The application
> basically acts as an extention of IE when it trys to play the files.
> So, the application wont play the files and neither will native IE
> making this a system issue and not a vendor application issue.
>
> The strange part is that IE shows that Shockwave and Flash are
> installed correctly.

> I can view flash content on a web page just fine.

That is not the same thing, especially if the content is driven by a script.


> Adobe's page for testing the plugins also shows both as A-oK.

> It's only when I try to open a local SWF file that I have the problems.

<title>Error message when you try to open an ActiveX control-based MIME
handler in Windows Internet Explorer 7: &quot;Invalid character&quot;</title>
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=934366



> Also I do have units with the patch that dont experience the problem.
> Only some do. Making this very annoying.
>
> Thanks to everyone in advance.
>
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