Adobe Air Player Download
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Microsoft's answer to Adobe Air.
AdobeAIRInstaller.exe
14 MB - turbobit.net - 2012-03-28
Source: adobe air 3.2.0.2070 final
AdobeAIRInstaller.exe
14 MB - depositfiles.com - 2012-03-28
Source: adobe air 3.2.0.2070 final
Questions about Adobe Air Player:
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These products are all plugins and file viewers of some sort - ie, to display flash on a website, or look at a PDF document
Removing them is not going to free up very much space at all. If you have 70Gb free space, that is quite a lot. I wouldn't worry too much.
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Take a backup of the files and reinstall Windows.
There is probably some adware/spyware or virus that is running on the system, and it will not show up under Add/Remove programs by virtue of how they get on the system in the first place.
Even for experts, it is very time-consuming to locate exactly where the issue is, and even if located, it's impossible to be sure that you've completely removed it. As it only takes a couple hours to perform backups and reinstall the OS, thus giving you a clean slate, that's the recommend methodology.
As for what's causing the slowdown -- if it almost freezes up, it means that you are probably running out of RAM (random access memory, not to be confused with hard disk / storage). In that situation, your system begins swapping, or using free space on your hard disk as backup. The issue is that your hard disk is 1000 times slower, which results in the system seizing up.
As for how much hard disk storage space is used -- contrary to popular belief, using too much of it doesn't slow the computer down. It's one of those things where you either have enough or don't have enough. If you have enough, your computer runs fine, and if not, things fail catastrophically. In your case, you have a 80GB HDD, 13GB of which is used. This is fine.
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Flash player is a "must", you are likely to visit sites using Flash daily.
Shockwave is similar to Flash, it used to be a major thing on gaming sites, but Flash has been replacing it, no harm in getting it, but it won't llikely make any difference in your internet experience.
Reader, it is suggested to get to read PDF documents, but not likely to be used too often. Acrobat, I just suggest Reader unless you plan to be making PDF files.
Air, it is something new to the market, and currently used probably as much as Shockwave, but Air is a program that lets Adobe products kind of run between the level of a browser and a normal program, letting developers mix different applications. Probably not something to worry about for a while if ever, but something that wouldn't hurt to get.
The Adobe products are pretty much fully compatible with 32bit Vista now, just they are currently working to become more compatible with 64bit Vista.
Search and view YouTube video without a web browser.