How To Prohibit Flash Animations From Running

Monday, 06 March 2006 by Michel Roth

Flash provides a great way to make your web page interactive with graphical illustrations etc. On the other hand, visiting flash sites occupy your internet bandwidth more. If you're using a dial-up connection and wish to block Flash intro's in websites, you can disable Flash animations by setting a Kill-bit for this ActiveX control:

{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}
Shockwave Flash Object
C:\WINDOWS\system32\macromed\flash\flash.ocx

� Open Registry Editor by typing REGEDIT.EXE in the Start, Run dialog.
� Navigate to the following location:
� [HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility]
� Create a sub-key named {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}
� In the right-pane, create a new REG_DWORD value named Compatibility Flags
� Set the data for Compatibility Flags to 400 (hexadecimal)

Read the whole tip here.

Thanks to Sessioncomputing.com for the tip.