A word about Adobe's Shockwave Player 11
By Ray on June 25, 2008 - 10:17pm
I've just wasted about two hours trying to get Shockwave Player working again, after
some 'housecleaning' spoiled the previous version. I discovered that Adobe has changed
the list of 'Xtras' for the latest versions, and downloading the latest version 11 will
result in error messages saying 'SWADCmpr.x32 not found' or something similar.
This is a Sound Wave Audio Decompressor file without which the install is incomplete and
the player won't run.
The solution is to go onto the Adobe Shockwave downloads site, and look for a stand-alone
installer for an older version such as version 9 or 10, before they removed many of the
'Extras' which apparently are still needed. When I installed the version 9 player, it had
all its required 'xtra' bits, and it works just like it should. Their latest version 11
wouldn't work at all for me. So if you have this problem, that's how to fix it.
Note: After you get the older version installed successfully, and do a reboot, you will likely be invited to accept an update of the program to the latest version. When you accept that, you will have the most recent version, and it will work properly once again.
