Posts tagged: adobe

0adobe acrobat pdf logoAdding searching of PDF file contents from Windows search

Published on by in Misc Software. Updated 16th January 2012.

Win­dows 7 (and Vista) include a search sys­tem that can search not just file names, but the con­tents of files.  Microsoft Office doc­u­ments are all sup­por­ted by default, how­ever PDF files are not.  Adobe provide a plu­gin which is included with Adobe Reader 9 (and newer) which enables this func­tion­al­ity.  How­ever a 64bit plu­gin is… Read more »

5Mozilla Firefox LogoRemoving Firefox plugins, addons & extensions

Published on by in Web Technologies. Updated 6th February 2013.

Nearly 18 months ago I wrote a brief note about how to which don’t have a “remove” but­ton in the Add-ons man­ager.  I have updated and added to the ori­ginal list, and will con­tinue to add any fur­ther plu­gins I encounter here.  If in doubt there is usu­ally no harm done by leav­ing or remov­ing… Read more »

0Flash Flv LogoPlaying downloaded FLV’s

Published on by in Codecs, Misc Media Software, Misc Software. Updated 5th October 2011.

I recently had a prob­lem with 2 PCs which appeared to be con­figured identic­ally, but whilst one would play a FLV down­loaded from you­tube, the other would fail. Some other FLVs played OK on both sys­tems. After much fur­ther invest­ig­a­tion I dis­covered that the act­iveX ver­sion of flash player on 1 of the PC’s was… Read more »