Running Flash 8 IDE on Vista

If you are running Vista and have the Flash 8 IDE installed on your machine it takes forever when you click on a movieclip to edit it. Here is how to fix it.

Right click on the shortcut to Flash (or the Flash exe file itself should do the same), click Properties, go to the Compatibility tab, and check the box next to “Disable desktop composition” — this helped a lot for me.

It took me a while to find that online so I hope it helps.

Continue reading » · Written on: 04-10-07 · 12 Comments »

12 Responses to “Running Flash 8 IDE on Vista”

  1. matt wrote:

    wow! thank you for saving my life!!

     May 14th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
  2. Cam wrote:

    Thank you so much – That was so irritating =) And now if functions as it should albeit not in glass – not that we care! Cheers..

     May 22nd, 2007 at 6:01 pm
  3. PEDRO wrote:

    Thank you, wow, you saved us hours of work, you should shout this from the mountaintop… what a pain in the a$$ that was!!

     August 3rd, 2007 at 9:13 am
  4. Squash Velcro wrote:

    Nice, worked great.

     August 5th, 2007 at 6:37 am
  5. Tan wrote:

    Great stuff, even the white background is gone

     August 19th, 2007 at 5:00 am
  6. max wrote:

    Thank you so much . you’r solution worked.
    also in Flash CS3 , the components was very slow , I did Disable desktop composition and everything works ! you great .

     August 25th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
  7. marcin wrote:

    it is really great. you are great. THANKS THANKS THANKS i from poland :)

    December 1st, 2007 at 7:31 am
  8. krazy3 wrote:

    Thank you sooo much! That was such a pain! It also really improved the speed. It used to take forever to load.

     December 10th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
  9. sophie wrote:

    thanks alot!!! i was so pissed off with vista. and you helped me out!!

     January 7th, 2008 at 10:56 am
  10. Dan wrote:

    Flash or Vista bug? dunno but this stuff worked fine. Thanks

     January 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 am
  11. Your Slave wrote:

    My lord. My life belongs to you now. Thank you for solving my problem. I am eternally indebted to you.

     February 7th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
  12. Edwin E wrote:

    BOOYAKA! Thank you X1000!
    Edwin
    Brooklyn NY

     March 4th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

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