According to Iolo, my system has “13 repairable security vulnerabilities.” Oh really? What it wants to do is change 13 file associations that might be associated with executable files (.hta.As I’ve written previously (see Windows 7 memory usage: What's the best way to measure?), “Windows 7 (unlike XP and earlier Windows versions) goes by the philosophy that empty RAM is wasted RAM and tries to keep it as full as possible, without impacting performance.” There’s no such thing as “defragmenting” memory. The program’s recommendation: “Defragment, optimize and recover system memory.” That is, to put it politely, bullshit. In other words, I am only using about half the RAM on this system. Apparently it didn’t notice that another 440 MB was in use as part of the system cache and would be instantly freed if I needed it. It advised me that my “memory level is low” because I only have 533.27 MB available (out of 2 GB installed).It identified one startup item to remove.This report is filled with alarming verbiage, but it identified no actual performance-sapping problems that I could see. Now, I have been troubleshooting Windows PCs for 20 years, so I am intimately familiar with the sources of potential problems. I have no idea what the conditions are that determine when this ad is served.)

(Update: I saw this ad on two different PCs, but on other test machines I saw different ads when I went to Adobe's download site.

If you do as I did and visit the Adobe Flash Player Download Center to manually install the latest Flash Player code, you might see this ad when the installation is complete. Unfortunately, Adobe is now selling prime advertising space on the page where they deliver manual updates to Flash Player. If you are running multiple browsers on your system, the background updater will update every browser. We accomplish this through the Windows Task Scheduler to avoid running a background service on the system. If the response says there is no new update, then it will wait 24 hours before checking again. The Adobe Secure Software Engineering Team Blog offers this explanation of how the updater works:įor our initial release, we have set the new background updater to check for updates once an hour until it gets a response from Adobe.

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