I'm currently constantly getting unresponsive plugin messages when using my laptop. It seems to pertain to Flash and Shockwave. It is making video streaming impossible most of the time (but seems to affect normal web browsing as well), and affects all browsers I've tried (it is chronic with both Chrome and Firefox, slightly less so with Opera but still very bad).
I've tried the various troubleshooting hints I've seen. I've reinstalled both Flash and Shockwave and it is no better. I've also updated by graphics drivers.
Is there anything else underlying which could be causing these issues?
I'm on Windows 8.1. My laptop is a HP Pavillion G6 2244sa with a 1.70GHz dual core AMD E2-1800 processer and 8GB of RAM.
Let's start with Flash. To be up to date you need 2 versions. One for IE and one for most other browsers. See what you have in the Control panel. When you update from there it uses your default browser. Next go to Adobe.com in one of the other browsers and update again.
It all appears to be ok - it is set to automatically install updates.
Also, I went on to the Flash Updater bit on adobe.com. For Chrome and IE, it said Flash was integrated into the browsers and no update was required. And when I checked via Firefox and Opera, both said Flash Player was fully up to date.
Updating Flashplayer, Shockwave, and Silverlight for each browser will not harm anything, even if you think you have the most recent one. But it might solve your problem.
All the plugins have been updated. Thanks for the responses. I had a couple of weeks where the issue didn't occur, and now it's happening again. There have been no new programs installed on the PC or anything.
Below is a screenshot of the message from the most recent occurence of the issue:
Got to the following site and delete all the Flash Cookies: Adobe - Flash Player : Settings Manager - Website Privacy Settings panel
Even if it doesn't work, use the Stop-Plug-in option when not needing Flash since besides doing what it says with slowing things down, it also "burns" hardware. Alternatively, in each browser, disable Flash and only enable when the page says you need it. This would be impractical if you're a game player.
The issue has not gone away, in fact it's got to the point where I'd call it chronic. It's making the laptop almost unusable half the time. I'm starting to wonder if it's actually some kind of hardware problem in the background making this issue happen.
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