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How to install flash player without administrator privilege in Opera?

Monday, 25. December 2006, 13:15:13

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  1. Download Adobe Flash Player (Size < 1.5 MB).
  2. Download Universal Extractor binary archive (Size 4.44 MB), extract contents and run UniExtract.exe.
  3. Drag & drop flash player installer inside Archive/Installer to extract, press OK and again press OK.
  4. Move NPSWF32.dll from \MAINDIR\ inside Universal Extractor Destination directory to \program\plugins\ in your Opera installation directory.
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Download NPSWF32.zip (NPSWF32.zip size 1.46 MB, version 9.0.124.0, NPSWF32.dll MD5 sum 72b7f936c68b8b9a1944753702e1f1ff), extract NPSWF32.dll and place it inside \program\plugins\ in your Opera installation directory.

You can check flash version at Version test for Adobe Flash Player page.

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*Great succes ! THX !

By hl2run, # 17. February 2007, 07:55:22

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Anonymous writes:

great idea! Unfortunately you didnt bother to think how we would install winrar without administrative priveledges.

By anonymous user, # 17. May 2007, 16:41:43

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Anonymous writes:

compression software is built in winxp
how do you go about doing it for IE?

By anonymous user, # 30. May 2007, 21:41:35

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Anonymous writes:

Yeah, um can't get Universal Extractor without Administrator privileges.

By anonymous user, # 3. November 2007, 21:13:35

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Yeah, um can't get Universal Extractor without Administrator privileges.
To run Universal Extractor, you don't need Administrator privileges.

By Tamil, # 4. November 2007, 03:08:41

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Jake writes:

In fact, you do need administrative privs to install universal extractor, catch 22 no?

By anonymous user, # 21. November 2007, 13:36:08

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Download RAR archive and extract it.

By Tamil, # 21. November 2007, 14:06:53

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Miles writes:

Well, I did it by Opera is not seeing the DLL in the plugin directory.
Using latest BETA.

Version information
Version: 9.50 beta
Build: 9665
Platform: Win32
System: Windows XP
Java: Sun Java Runtime Environment version 1.5
XHTML+Voice: Plug-in not loaded

By anonymous user, # 29. November 2007, 13:53:12

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How did you decide that the folder Program files can write with simple user rights?

By Fidelich, # 18. December 2007, 19:59:53

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Originally posted by Fidelich:

How did you decide that the folder Program files can write with simple user rights?
If you install Opera (Classic installer) without administrator rights in a different folder and this will work.

By Tamil, # 19. December 2007, 03:16:58

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:-)
Ok the answer is counted.

By Fidelich, # 19. December 2007, 11:25:47

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High!
I am glad I've visited this site. It's interesting and quite usefull.
I've downloaded Universal Extractor, tried to download Adobe Flash Player, but haven't succeded.
I followed your instructions and am not certain, whether righly or not.
I seem to have done everything correctly, but the Flash Player does not appear anywhere.
I.m sure to visit you once again.

Thanks in advance.

Yours,
Valentin Savin

By valsavin, # 28. December 2007, 21:19:20

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Did you try second option?

By Tamil, # 28. December 2007, 21:46:33

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Anonymous writes:

shit

By anonymous user, # 23. January 2008, 19:01:52

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poratable_dude writes:

The second option worked great, I use portable opera. Cheers!:yes:

By anonymous user, # 7. February 2008, 22:33:06

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I seem to have succeded in installing The Flash Player.
I do not see the flash.exe, but it somehow works.

By valsavin, # 8. February 2008, 15:04:19

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Originally posted by valsavin:

I do not see the flash.exe, but it somehow works.
You need only flash plugin file (NPSWF32.dll).

By Tamil, # 8. February 2008, 15:52:09

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Thanks a lot, Tamil.
I've found plugin file NPSWF32.dll in my Windows Macromedia and even updated it.
You've been most helpful.

By valsavin, # 8. February 2008, 19:42:58

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Yey writes:

this method rules, am just wondering if this would also work with maxthon?

By anonymous user, # 10. February 2008, 07:05:23

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Anonymous writes:

will this only work for Opera Winfrey or for Mozilla Firefox as well ?

By anonymous user, # 3. March 2008, 23:57:23

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will this only work for Opera Winfrey or for Mozilla Firefox as well ?
To work in Firefox you have to copy NPSWF32.dll to Firefox plugins directory.

By Tamil, # 4. March 2008, 04:34:08

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Anonymous writes:

if you can't install universal extractor why not try 7-Zip Portable (http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable) which you can use without administrator privileges.

By anonymous user, # 10. March 2008, 06:33:10

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I did the tow option and both of them doesnot work?
what can i do ?

By mgfs2008, # 26. March 2008, 02:58:15

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Originally posted by mgfs2008:

I did the tow option and both of them doesnot work?
What is the path to Opera and where did you place NPSWF32.dll?

By Tamil, # 26. March 2008, 08:15:01

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Anonymous writes:

D:\Progarm Files\opera\program
this is the path
and i use the last version

By anonymous user, # 26. March 2008, 16:39:23

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D:\Progarm Files\opera\program
Place NPSWF32.dll inside D:\Progarm Files\opera\program\plugins

By Tamil, # 26. March 2008, 17:37:10

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Anonymous writes:

I did that .
by the way i used bypass proxy to watch metacafe videos and it doesn't work
do you know any proxy that let to watch metacafe videos?

By anonymous user, # 26. March 2008, 22:30:34

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do you know any proxy that let to watch metacafe videos?
Sorry, I don't know.

By Tamil, # 26. March 2008, 22:49:18

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Anonymous writes:

install in c:\opera
you don't have administrator rights for program files.
after that search on google "download win rar portable edition"
google is your friend anytime anywhere.
then extract NPSWF32.dll in C:\Opera\program\plugins

then have phun!

By anonymous user, # 14. April 2008, 05:08:45

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Anonymous writes:

hello someone help me ive been trying to follow the below instructions
"Move NPSWF32.dll from \MAINDIR\ inside Universal Extractor Destination directory to \program\plugins\ in your Opera installation directory"
,... first of all where is the maindirectory?? and opera installation directory?
plz plz help
m a complete computer novice

By anonymous user, # 20. April 2008, 11:31:01

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Anonymous writes:

hello again ... i was the above anonymous... i managed to to cut and paste NPSWF32.dll from the destop to tat plugins thing...now what do i do?? plz i dunno how to continue
youtube is still showing "u do not hav flashplayer"

By anonymous user, # 20. April 2008, 11:44:09

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youtube is still showing "u do not hav flashplayer"
If you use any adblocker software disable and try.

By Tamil, # 25. April 2008, 08:52:18

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