

In essence, you’re running an operating system on top of your existing operating system. Free apps like VirtualBox (and premium ones like VMWare) can create a virtualized environment that poses no immediate threat to your system. If you were to run an older version of Flash that still technically works, you should probably do so in a secure environment like a virtual machine. We include this information here for informational purposes only.

It has security vulnerabilities, and there are no more legitimate, official download sources. RELATED: How to Play Old Flash Games in 2020, and Beyond How Do I Run the Outdated Version of Flash? Warning: We really do advise against running an outdated version of Flash. In order to use Newgrounds natively, you can either use the Windows-only (and somewhat outdated) Newgrounds Player, or you can download the Ruffle browser extension and try that instead. If you're still stuck, let us know, and we can collect more detailed forensics.And, of course, the entire Newgrounds library is still available. Early Conextant audio drivers on Win10 were very problematic, but aside from that, driver-related stability issue would typically be limited to video or 3D content. It's also possible that it's a driver thing.

This is definitely not a widespread issue on the radar at the moment. Google has excellent telemetry, and is very fast to raise new issues like this in the field. The easiest approach is to just remove and reinstall Chrome.īased on the symptoms, I'm leaning towards a client-side problem - either a corrupted binary, or maybe a weird permission thing, like a group policy that's applied in your enterprise, which restricts access to required files or registry keys that we would assume normal access to. If the problem persists, there's a good chance the Flash Player included with Chrome was corrupted somehow. First things first, if you haven't rebooted since you started experiencing this issue, start there.
