Shockwave Player ERROR #10

There are few to any answeres to the shockwave error 10. Even on a support forum for shockwave and user was left hanging without resolution for this problem. The user was getting an error (shwave error 10) and did not get an answer on how to resolve it.

For those of you with this erro and and foudn this blog, there is something you could try to resolve the problem. The solution is faily simple but might require you to get some files from anotehr system on which shockwave is working fine.

The error message also notes that some files are missing that shwave player requires. Uninstalling and re-installing just gets you going in a circle that never ends. The system will also ask you to reboot too. It doesn't work If you getting shockwave error 10, file are missing that are needed to run shockwave plyer then try this. Keep in mind, this won;t hurt your player because the player doesn't work anyway, that's why you're reading this.

Run the uninstall from control panel. You've probably already done it 10 or so times already but one more at this point won;t hurt. Reboot if asked to do so after the installation. Go to the windows system 32 directory. For many installations it's c:\windows\system32. In that folder look for macromedia the adobe subfolders. In both of the aforementioned folders there will be a shockwave sub-folder. If one of these is empty or near empty, that's your problem. At least that was the problem on a computer that was having this problem and on whch I did the same steps I'm pointing out in this post. Copy the contents from the fodler that has files to the one that does not (it may not be entirely empty but opnly has a minimal set of the "full" folder). Go to a site that you are having problems with. I would not go to shockwaves site to trigger the active-x installation. That site has probably already told you that shockwave is working fine even though it is not.

Loading the site that is not workin, if properly coded., will trigger the active-x download and instalaltion of shockwave player. Run the install and reboot if requested to do so by the install. If no reboot is requested, then relaod the page. You might ask to run the install again. Check the box that says truct content from this publisher and adobe will be displayed in the mesage wndow to trust . When you check the box the installation if it's triggered again will just run.

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