Google "Disable Flash Hardware Acceleration" to read old posts about it. What you read applies to 8 as well.
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When watching a video on YouTube or elsewhere I have to catch it before it ends and start another or the computer shuts down and goes to the start page. Has anyone else experienced this? What can be done about it? Windows 8.1 on an older Dell laptop.

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