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Adobe Flash Broke my LabVIEW Help

Recently, all of a sudden whenever I opened up LabVIEW Help (such as right-clicking on a function/VI and selecting Help), the Help window would appear, the left pane would be filled in, but the right pane would be blank. The inner part of the title bar would be white, and the Help would simply freeze. The only way to resolve it was to force-kill LabVIEW Help via Task Manager, which also quit LabVIEW (even though it wasn't frozen). I couldn't figure out what was happening until I decided to run FileMon and saw that at the very end of loading the Help window, the Adobe Flash folder was being accessed. OK, this sort of makes sense, since it's displaying an HTML file, but it also doesn't make sense since it wasn't displaying Flash content. But why would that freeze the Help window? Flash worked just fine in my browser. I did a complete uninstall of Flash, and my LabVIEW Help magically started working again.

 

Anybody else seen this? FYI: I had Flash 10 installed. There had been an update to Flash a couple of weeks ago, I think, but I'm almost (99%) positive that I had used Help during that time without seeing this freeze. Haven't the courage yet to try installing it again. 

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I have Flash 10 installed and have not seen this problem.  Flash is up to date as far as I knoew.
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Thanks for the feedback. I had to install Flash again since Pandora uses it (and I love Pandora). This time LabVIEW Help did not freeze up, and when I had FileMon running I saw that the LabVIEW executable was not accessing the Adobe folder (whereas before it was doing it right before the Help window froze up). Bizarre. Smiley Surprised
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I have something similar on my computer. Start the program to check my voicemail, and NI Teststand starts to install.
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In looking further into this, I believe this issue is related to my post here. Note that that post had to do with copying text from the Help file into a forum message, but the text came from the LabVIEW Help, so that Javascript is in the Help file page itself.
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