You can go to Tools then Manage Add-ons in IE8 to verify the current status regardless of what the status bar displays. I don’t believe there’s a setting to change the display of this notification in the status bar.

I should also mention that at this point any further updates to this utility probably won’t be coming any time soon unless Windows 8 requires an update or some other major flaw is found. I won’t be making any updates for XP or even Vista. I quite honestly no longer have the time to do much more than that and as this app is free and I’ve received a total of 2 donations I haven’t found much of a reason to do anything beyond what little work I’ve done thus far.

IE8 on XP SP3 should have no issues with this add-on from the testing I did in a VM it behaved exactly the same. If Flash objects are being disabled properly I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

I forgot where I got FlashBang, but wanted a replacement because there is no indication of whether it is on or off (FlashBlock for Forefox changes the appearance of the toolbar button), then found your site again. “Add-on disabled”? I _never_ noticed this before. I can uninstall the FlashBang add-on (unlike so many others)? Cool.

Uninstalled it. Downloaded another copy from you, just in case it is a later version, exited IE, and installed it.

It _does_ seem to work, but still no ‘disabled’ indication (for me).

The front page of Zillow.com has a flash object on it — enabled = animation, disabled = a single ‘screen’ that does not change (it is the last screen of the animation). Same on other pages containing flash objects — the “placeholder” is a single ‘screen’ of image data.

Is there an IE setting that stops the display of the “add-on disabled” message? I don’t see one in Tools>Options>[everything in there].

now I can work at home without having the bloody laptop waking the whole family up…

Ok… i run regedit and checked “in realtime” – your app does delete this key when i click the flashbang button BUT flash is still running after refreshing the page

So… i think you need to find perhaps another reg key to enable/disable flash unique to IE8 as well.

I spend some time to search the keys on the 2nd link you provided and saved/delete/checked if flash still running/resored keys – unfortunatly all keys were useles in disabling flash.

As if IE8 retain all objects info onload and doesnt check with the resgistry file for every html page run.
Perhaps the brains in microsofts R&D thought every milii-second counts for competeing with the other browsers

Hope you can come up with a solution, perhaps a regkey i couldnd find my self.

Thanks,
Asher

You can check the following registry key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Ext\Settings\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}

If the key doesn’t exist and Flash is ENABLED. The app simply does the check and either deletes or creates the key.

See more from Adobe here:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/145/tn_14526.html AND http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/191/tn_19148.html

Could it be IE8 migrated the REG keys of flash else where then your settings?
Or perhaps your settings work with flash version before 10, which is the flash version i have on IE8.

Thanks

I’m using windows XP SP3, i did uninsatll and reinstall several times just to make sure.
I do see the button on IE8 but it doesnt disable the flash (i do refresh to the page to check if flash is disabled but its still runing)

Any help is much apreciated

Thanks
Asher

I just upgraded to IE 8 and it seems it doesnt affect flash anymore.

Could you look into it and perhaps issue a new version?

Thanks again!

If the Christians are right then being dead won’t be so great either because we will be burning for eternity in the pits of hell. I like atheism because the only consequence to living a life of debauchery is jail and the occasional std.

I think the most likely trigger for escaping our mundane debate (e.g., how to spend the wealth of the world) will be some sort of scarcity: food, water, energy, breathable air.

What we have for the time being are vast resources the, limits of which are unimaginable by virtually everyone (e.g., Shortage of oil? But there are untapped oil reserves in the ANWR!). There are many people in the climate debate who think that the entire issue is politically motivated – it’s a sad state of affairs.

So having so many people understanding issues at a superficial level is unfortunate, but not exactly the most damaging challenge mankind has ever faced. What we need are more leaders like Obama. The conservative party needs some folks who can talk about the issues without making asses of themselves in public or in private.

Yes, there are two extreme sides to every argument (call them liberal and conservative, if you will), but I think you will find that the average voter isn’t so polarized. Fox News and CNN may stand at opposite ends of the spectrum, but that’s because extreme opinions are entertaining.

We could all stand to learn more about how to express our opinions without indicting the opinions of others. I think it’s called “discussion.”

It definitely helped feed into the writing.