Restore Adobe Flash Player settings

About this task

After scanning with Flash Execution active, Flash Player 10.1 (and later) functionality is slightly impaired and behaves like Flash 10.0 in one respect. It is a feature of version 10.1 (unlike version 10.0) that the Flash player stops running when its window is not the active window. This feature is disabled when you scan.

When you have finished scanning you can undo the change that was made. However, be aware that next time you scan with Flash Execution active the setting will be changed back again.

Procedure

  1. Open the Flash Player folder. By default this is usually:

    C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash

  2. Locate the file mms.cfg and open it with a text editor (such as Microsoft Notepad).
  3. Locate the line:

    FullFramerateWhenInvisible=True

  4. Delete this line (or set its value to False).
  5. Save the file.
  6. Restart your browser for the change to take effect.