What is the difference between adobe flash player and adobe shockwave player?

Hello, everyone-

first of all, I am a newbie for a long time , and I apologize for my ignorance.  I hope that the kind and gracious people here will have pity.

Secondly, I am swapping this Q in the forum "adobe flash player".  If it is not appropriate to publish in more than one forum at a time, please tell me, then put this survey every time you think that it is more applicable.

I ask about the difference between these two applications, because I tried to install a more recent version of flash player. I have 11.4.402.265 and is 11.4.402.278.  somehow, though, I headed in install shockwave player 11.5.9.620 instead.  (I had other problems too, but they are quite different, so I'll fix it in a separate debate.)

now I just need to know if I destroyed my computer, if I should try to undo what I have done, what have I made, need I or not if it matter if I have these two programs on my computer at the time, and other issues that people more knowledgeable can say I need to ask questions about but I am too tech -UNsavvy to know to include.

Thanks for all that help someone can provide.   I'm on a dell optiplex 330, windows XP pro/SP3, IE 8.0.6001.18702.

-susie margaret

Hi Susie.

As a general rule, it is best to only post in a forum. The reason is that someone can take the time to answer, but the answer can already provided elsewhere. I'll answer the question here and you can post to your topic on the forum Flash that you have received a response.

The difference is:

Flash Player - play content with extension SWF, often created with Adobe Flash Pro. There are other tools that can publish to swf format. Illustrator can even export to swf format.

Shockwave Player - play content with the DCR extension - created with Adobe Director.

The term Shockwave has confused people in the past. Flash was Shockwave Flash. Now, Flash and Shockwave are separate things. It shouldn't damage your computer to have both installed. They are the two plugins web trust. If you have installed the from the Adobe Web site, you should be fine.

Some examples of different content:

Shockwave: http://www.adobe.com/products/shockwaveplayer/gokart/
Flash: http://themirage.fr/

Hope that clears things up for you.

Dean

Tags: Adobe Shockwave Player

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