Conflict With Windows Vista?

Question

Please help me. This is truly, truly awful.
I got a new computer AMD Athlon 64x X2 Dual Core, 2.4GHz.
It came with Windows Vista Home Premium.
I installed Adobe Flash Professional 8.
I have Windows XP at home and Flash 8 works just fine.
On this computer, ANY movie clip I double-click on takes
f..o..r..e..v..e..r to update the screen. Excruciatingly slow.
If you notice when you double-click a movieclip Flash makes
an animation of a dashed box zoom up from the clip to make it look
as if you are zooming into the movie clip -- well I watch that
dashed rectangle slowly, slowly expand till it fills the whole
screen. Only then will Flash resume normally. It expands in slow
chunky movements.
Strangely enough, if I click on a movie clip in the library -
no problems. It opens up almost immediately.
I've tried this with new files, old files, sample files. All
the same.
Either Windows or Flash hates something about that 'zooming
into a movie clip' animation. It hates backing out of them too. I
get the dashed box when I go back to the main timeline as well.
This is just devastating. There is no way I can use Flash
like this.
Any suggestions welcome.
I've already shut down every background program I thought was
interfering. I've already reinstalled. (The uninstall took a
bizarrely long time to do its thing. Could I have a bad copy?) I've
kept a processor meter running whilst the problem occurred and the
processor isn't sweating it at all. So what's the problem!?
I was tech support for years, but here I'm completely at a
loss.
And trying to google 'problems flash 8 slow opening movie
clip' is obviously useless.
*sob*

Answer 1

there were a few lengthy threads about this a couple weeks
ago - try searching - i cant remember the
solution and i dont have vista.
Chris Georgenes
Animator
http://www.mudbubble.com
http://www.keyframer.com
Adobe Community Expert
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FreshLaundry wrote:
> Please help me. This is truly, truly awful.
>
> I got a new computer AMD Athlon 64x X2 Dual Core,
2.4GHz.
> It came with Windows Vista Home Premium.
> I installed Adobe Flash Professional 8.
>
> I have Windows XP at home and Flash 8 works just fine.
>
> On this computer, ANY movie clip I double-click on takes
f..o..r..e..v..e..r
> to update the screen. Excruciatingly slow.
> If you notice when you double-click a movieclip Flash
makes an animation of a
> dashed box zoom up from the clip to make it look as if
you are zooming into the
> movie clip -- well I watch that dashed rectangle slowly,
slowly expand till it
> fills the whole screen. Only then will Flash resume
normally. It expands in
> slow chunky movements.
>
> Strangely enough, if I click on a movie clip in the
library - no problems. It
> opens up almost immediately.
>
> I've tried this with new files, old files, sample files.
All the same.
>
> Either Windows or Flash hates something about that
'zooming into a movie clip'
> animation. It hates backing out of them too. I get the
dashed box when I go
> back to the main timeline as well.
>
> This is just devastating. There is no way I can use
Flash like this.
> Any suggestions welcome.
>
> I've already shut down every background program I
thought was interfering.
> I've already reinstalled. (The uninstall took a
bizarrely long time to do its
> thing. Could I have a bad copy?) I've kept a processor
meter running whilst the
> problem occurred and the processor isn't sweating it at
all. So what's the
> problem!?
>
> I was tech support for years, but here I'm completely at
a loss.
> And trying to google 'problems flash 8 slow opening
movie clip' is obviously
> useless.
>
> *sob*
>
>
>