I get the message 20 times a day no matter what I'm doing.  I have uninstalled and re-installed a couple times and still same message.

Bigger than a pain in the foofoo!    I play games in Wild Tangent and it kicks me out when it's costing me to play the game.  Also kicks me out of the free casino games in Facebook, too.

I use IE8.  Really ticks me that Abode wants to now bundle and shove Chrome at ya even when you don't want to use it.

I have Windows XP.......SP3, too.

I'm an IT technician at a small company and I've had at least 5 computers get this same error here. I've also been uninstalling and reinstalling Flash Player. I think it's been working so far, but I may not have rebooted. I can't recall right now if I've seen this error also on Windows 7 machines or only on our Windows XP SP3 machines. I'll post an update if I see it come up on a Windows 7 machine as well, it's definately an issue in Windows XP SP3 though. The error comes up before any browser is started, we generally have IE8 and Firefox(current version) installed on all of our computers.

If you start reading of this problem on the internet, it appears a whole lot of us are having this issue.  Also with Firefox so I believe we can safely not blame this on IE.

I have had SP3 for ages and this is also not the problem.  This just started for me about 3 weeks ago.  I'm assuming after the last update of Adobe?  What bugs me the most is that it kicks me right out of whatever I'm doing.

You may be onto something here when you say only the XP machines are having this problem.  I did read a post Chris wrote yesterday regarding a "work-around", followed his directions and have not seen the dreaded message yet today but the day is still young.

If anyone missed Chris's work-around solution, he said to right click on Flash Player in the Control Room.  Open the program up and click on Advanced.  Once in Advanced, to "uncheck" automatic updates and click on the "Notify me of updates" instead.  But, since this problem seems to be a recent addition, I almost wonder if there's a bug somewhere or glinch or whatever sounds best to call it.

I was having the same issue with one of my users.  The pop up would only show when she booted in the mornings.  It looks like the updater is corrupted.

I uninstalled the program. 

I then went into my C >program files > Adobe.  Deleted the Flash folder.

After that, I went into my user account.  C > documents and settings > "username" > application data (this is a hidden folder) > Adobe.  Deleted the Flash folder also.

I then reinstalled the program and rebooted.

So far it is working fine.

Unique: Go to your Control Panel (before you do the add remove programs) and there should be an Adobe Flash option.  Mine was the very last option in the icons.

Right click on that and then turn off the updater.

Maybe they did turn it off.

Try my recommendation of completely removing Adobe.  (add/remove does not completely delete the files)

Yes, reboot also.

Yeah it was me jumping to conclusions about add/remove.

I'll post back here tomorrow after the machine has been rebooted to see how it when.

Thanks for everyone's help.

I too have gotten this annoying little ditty around 10 times a day.  Mostly on a laptop that is in great shape that has XP SP 3 and runs like a pro.  I'm getting away from IE8 because they aren't updating stuff for it anymore.  To me, that's almost as annoying as the Adobe error.  Looks like Gates took a page from Job's playbook.  Shut off support and force them to buy a whole new system.  Want IE9 or 10?  Start taking advantage of html5 functions?  Win 7 OS in order to get those browsers.  I have too many advanced programs on this that would cost a bit to bring into the Win 7 world, and why fix it if it aint broke.  IE8 is acting worst by the day on things like FaceBook.  Went to Chrome.  A few Java script issues but all in all, a slick, streamline approach to browsing.  Safari and FireFox just are too much in the old IE world.

For me, it doesn't kick me out in Chrome, just stops my typing for a moment.

Hi, I would like some help with this issue.  I had to reinstall Adobe flash, but I am using Windows XP, for 2 days it kept crashing on me anytime I would open an app. Now I re installed it and I am still getting the issue in either Chrome or F.Fox. I went in Youtube that is ok, but if I open in Facebook it crashes on me. I would really like some help on this matter. Thank you in advance.

Have you tried the walk-around solution to prevent getting the message?  That stopped it for me.

Control Panel

Right Click on Flash Player.....Open

Click on Advanced

UNCHECK auto updates and check instead to Notify when updates are available

@jbacinti.......Abode is working on this.

Unchecking auto updates does not stop the message for me.

Rebooted more times than I can count and no change.

The only other thing I did was check the delete box on that same page.  I didn't mention it because no one told me to and I didn't know as it did anything.

Control Panel.....Right Click on Flash Player.....Open.......Advanced

I clicked the Delete All button at the top to get rid of previous settings and then Unchecked the Auto Updates and checked instead the Notify button.  Then rebooted.

Crazy darned thing that this has worked for me but not others.  Hope you can find a solution too.

I am operating on Windows XP Professional Version 2002 and get this error message about every 20 minutes since installing this version.  I am now getting tired of "reporting the problem" when the error box pops up.

I have not tried any options to fix the problem so I will read through these replys to see if there might be a "fix" laptop.

I checked after reading your post, here, texasbrit, but in my case, I do not have the plug-in but do have the active-x.

I have not gotten the message again since I did the walk-around described here on July 21.  At least that worked for me.

I see the latest version of Flash Player has been updated from 265 to 268. Is this update service issue fixed in the latest version?