leoliver Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 I'm running Win Vista x64 SP2 . The control panel's Win update stopped working, so a few days ago I restored Vista to "factory condition" ans all available updates were downloaded and installed. But when I tried to re-install Adobe Flash Player, I found the Adobe install file would not start. Strange because I did have Flash player for Firefox and IE on my computer, before re-installing Vista. Then I saw this from Microsoft ..........................."You cannot run an application that is signed with a SHA-256 certificate on a computer that is running Windows Vista SP2 or Windows Server 2008 SP2" . The answer was to add this update "Windows6.0-KB2763674-x64" . But so far the stand-alone installer has been running for hours, and it hasn't even found the update yet, and it doesn't seem like it's going to. So what now? I hope that the "stand-alone installer" doesn't "hose up" the Control panel's up-date ability! When, about 8 yrs. ago I was working on a install disc for XP, I could down load complete update files, click on them and they would install. No "stand-alone installer" needed. Can you still get complete, ready to install updates like that? Feedback will be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoliver Posted October 18, 2016 Author Share Posted October 18, 2016 I need to up-date my post , I have a active X flash player installed On IE. it's the Firefox version that won't install. Thanks ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Which Flash version? I assume the latest? Did you get the Full Installers from here? https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoliver Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 On 10/20/2016 at 1:20 PM, submix8c said: Which Flash version? I assume the latest? Did you get the Full Installers from here? https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/ Thanks for your reply. I found the correct file, downloaded it, but when I click on the file it won't start installing,it just sits there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
submix8c Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Haven't been on for a few days, so late reply. Right-click and Run As Administrator? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdfox7 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Were you able to download the Vista update? The page with the update is here:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2763674 The actual file is here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36253 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoliver Posted December 29, 2016 Author Share Posted December 29, 2016 I fixed the problem. Right click, properties, UN-block .exe file Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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