Monday, May 11, 2009

Installing a Program to Run SWF Files

INSTALLING IRFANVIEW AND THE PROGRAM'S ADOBE FLASH PLAYER PLUGIN



Enter this URL into the address line of Internet Explorer:
http://download.cnet.com/IrfanView/3000-2192-10021962.html?part=dl-IrfanView&subj=dl&tag=button
Click "Download" on the page and install IrfanView.




Enter this URL into the address line of Internet Explorer:
http://www.filecluster.com/download-link-0/79091.html
Click "Run" to install the Plugins.

Enter "cat.swf" into Google search
Curser down to "cat.swf" and right click on it. Choose "Save Target As..."
Save the file in your Picture folder.

Open your Picture folder.
Right click on the file. Choose "Open with", then "Choose default program" (ensuring "always use the selected program to open this kind of file" is ticked).
Select "Browse". Go to "IrfanView" folder in "Program files" folder. Click on the file named "i_view32.exe"


Double click the"cat.swf" picture icon in your "Pictures" folder. You will see the SWF animation.

In future it will just be necessary to double click any SWF picture.

Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player to Work for Mozilla Firefox
Installing Adobe Macromedia Shockwave Player to Work for Internet Explorer
Installing MacromediaAdobe FlashMX to Run/Open SWF Files
Installing Macromedia Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer
Installing Macromedia Adobe Flash Player for Mozilla Firefox
Disabling UAC for a Program


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