Flash causing Windows problems.

I had a problem with my Windows not working correctly, with the following errors: The topmost window that was open could not be minimized or closed without having Task Manager opened and with it as the topmost window; the Start Menu bar wouldn't come up from being hidden when I moved my mouse down to it without, again, opening Task Manager and having it open onscreen first; drop down menu choices don't work, regardless of Task Manager, without my using the arrow buttons to make my choice highlighted. Now, we inserted a brand new hard drive, installed Windows fresh on the new drive, dleted EVERYTHING off the old hard drive, and as soon as I installed Flash, the problem immediately started again. Also, in addition to this, a couple of our graphics drivers files were corrupted, and while they were fixed the issue remained. This corruption took place on both hard drives after the problem began. Finally, I at one point started messing around with screen resolutions and text sizes, and for a while the computer worked just fine after that...until I put it to sleep for a couple of hours, upon which the problem manifested itself wholly again.
HELP!!!!

Well, closing and resizing windows is purely an OS function. Flash Player (in spite of what you're seeing) has absolutely NOTHING to do with Windows GUI operations. It's a browser plugin, which means it ONLY operates in your browser and ONLY on pages that contain Flash media. EVERYTHING else outside of that is your OS and other software.
Additionally Flash Player utilizes audio and video drivers through the browser, but it cannot and does not modify them in any imaginable way. If your drivers were corrupted on a new OS install, I'd submit that they needed to be updated BEFORE you installed anything on the system. I do about a dozen "reloads" a month for people and the FIRST thing I do after Windows is installed, is run Windows and driver updates until the OS is FULLY up to date. That's before the first piece of third-party software ever goes onto the HD.
The fact that it goes awry coming out of sleep (I assume with the browser and Flash Player not running when it was put to sleep) would further indicate some serious OS issues, since Windows Explorer (not Internet Explorer) would be the ONLY thing running upon waking the system.

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try reinstalling / installing flash player at http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
Yeah - I tried that, but it didn't help.
or try Adobe Shock wave at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download
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and you could also try this is if all else fails:http://www.browsertools.net/SWF-Opener/
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[svn] 2142: swfutils: Somehow a Java 1.5 API (Integer.valueOf(int)) slipped into the 30x branch, and has only sporadically caused build problems.

Revision: 2142
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-06-18 15:17:01 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jun 2008)
Log Message:
swfutils: Somehow a Java 1.5 API (Integer.valueOf(int)) slipped into the 30x branch, and has only sporadically caused build problems.
* By "somehow" I mean it was my injection :)
* Apparently this compiles in 1.4.2 on a Mac, go figure? I assume Windows JDK doesn't accept it.
* Replaced it with 'new Integer(int)'
Reviewer: Matt, community folks
Bugs: n/a
QA: no
Doc: no
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxPrinter.java

Revision: 2142
Author: [email protected]
Date: 2008-06-18 15:17:01 -0700 (Wed, 18 Jun 2008)
Log Message:
swfutils: Somehow a Java 1.5 API (Integer.valueOf(int)) slipped into the 30x branch, and has only sporadically caused build problems.
* By "somehow" I mean it was my injection :)
* Apparently this compiles in 1.4.2 on a Mac, go figure? I assume Windows JDK doesn't accept it.
* Replaced it with 'new Integer(int)'
Reviewer: Matt, community folks
Bugs: n/a
QA: no
Doc: no
Modified Paths:
flex/sdk/branches/3.0.x/modules/swfutils/src/java/flash/swf/tools/SwfxPrinter.java

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Publisher:
Adobe Systems Incorporated
Type:
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