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How to: Install 3rd party screensavers

21 April 2008 219 views 3 Comments



Third party screensavers are screensavers that are not installed by default or are not from Microsoft. Most of them use flash to operate and are often not up-to-date, so they search for the wrong version of it.

An error message: Could find the file f”lash.ocx” is typically displayed when this occurs. The new version of flash has the filename flash9e.ocx and you need to create a copy of it, named flash.ocx to fix this problem. To do this:

1. Go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash

2. Look for flash9e.ocx and copy it

3. Paste into the same folder and name the copy flash.ocx.

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3 Comments »

  • “Screen-cleaning” screensavers | Cool Windows XP tricks, tutorials and software reviews. (author) said:

    [...] Before you can use them, you might need to configure your system to allow 3rd party screensavers. [...]

    # 8 July 2008 at 8:16 pm
  • kloopk said:

    didn’t like the fact it tried to access the internet.

    # 1 December 2008 at 11:47 pm
  • Eerik said:

    It probably tries to access the internet to see if there is an update available…

    Shouldn’t be anything harmless.

    # 2 December 2008 at 4:00 pm

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