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To stabilize my Incredimail (which I love and don't want to give up)
I had to disable updates..What problems could I have with this?
Why do they have to keep updating the Flash player, what's that about? That is the update that causes Incredimail crashes.
thank you for any suggestions.
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...delay with Pro. I understand, based on what MS has said, that you CAN disable updates with the Enterprise version. Is that what you have?
All Flash updates are security updates, issued by Adobe. They are done, because security risks are found in it quite regularly.
Maybe it's just bad software? If you don't view sites that still use Flash, you don't need it.
Kees
How would I know which sites require Flash...I would like to get rid of it!
The only thing I have that still uses it is Pandora. It was having problems with Firefox, IE, and Edge, so I switched to Chrome (which has its own built-in flash player), uninstalled the Adobe Flash, and am living happily ever after. 
k You can always go to adobe.com and get it if you should need it. Personally I can use Edge to open PDFs and Chrome for anything needing a flash player, so I can say goodbye to Adobe and all their non-stop updates and bugs foreverrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! 
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Good luck.
Great idea to use different browsers for different things, if they are better suited.
Now you only need Chrome patches for the flash-related security updates in Chrome and Edge padches for the pdf-related security updates in Edge 
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But those patches are coming in already, so you don't really notice.
Kees
enter at the chrome://plugins/ on the address bar and you can enable Adobe reader.
videos on websites. The world is moving to repalcing flash with HTML5. This is why MS created Edge for Windows 10 and also left IE 11 in WIN 10 also. Since the world is moving slowly to HTML5. IE is for legacy websites.
a serious fatal flaw was found in Flash and there's no permanent fix for the system, so they just keep patching against each new exploit of it. That's why there's been so many updates of it in the past couple years. Flash therefore is on the way out, soon be a thing of the past like real player.
you could miss security updates and alot of malware attacks are fake Flash installs. One thing I've noticed with Flash updates is the fake one just say Flash while true Flash update will allways say Adobe Flash.
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