Adobe Flash Update Wont Install - I FIXED IT!

I have a number of VirtualBox VM's running Windows on a Windows 7 Host.
Regularly when I come to do an Adobe Flash update for one of the Browsers (more often than not it happens to be FireFox) and the stub download occurs ok and you fire off the exe, avoid all the crapware and it gets part way through the download and install and fails ... nearly every time.

I discovered two things:

1. I was saving the download to a shared drive running off the host machine and mapped into my VM's ... quite a few installers will not work across the virtualised drive mapping!!!!
   ... including Adobe Flash.
   Copy the downloaded installer (e.g. flashplayer21_xa_install.exe) to the system drive of the VM and 95% of the time it will install without a hitch.
2. The other 5%, I wound up closing the browser as well, as soon as I kicked-off the exe

 99.9999% Flash update success rate now !  :-)

April 16 2013 update to: 

Ongoing experience of TRYING to Network our
SAMIL River 5200TL-D Solar Inverter

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 A very brief update to say I've now had two other Samil owners email me to share their similar stories with me.
To one of the senders I replied ...

It’s nice to know its not just me!

I too have been rung by MikeZhang and have this MASSIVE email trail between us.

He has taken my early reports to the devs and I too got told to use VIplant instead of the browser solution ... despite me explaining at-length that the inverter won’t even stay on the network long enough to use VIplant ... quite apart from my having already set up an account and tried VIplant with total non-success.

In short it doesn’t seem like they want to recognise they have a problem and keep telling me to upgrade the firmware using  “the latest” rar file which they emailed me which I can’t seem to get through to them appears to be an EARLIER version than what is on the replacement inverter I had swapped-in by my installer!!!!

Am I frustrated ... you bet I am!

Having paid as much as we have for a supposedly “automated” system which I have to manually record each day and even then with the second unit every so often it records some totally erroneous daily value like 0.04KW on a sunny day or conversely 53KW+ on a partially cloudy day when the best “real” value I’ve ever seen is like 39.37KW on a totally sunny day!

I can only hope you are right and with more voices Samil will finally try and fix the shonky firmware!

Do stay in touch and I’ll try and update the blog when I have new info

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PS

I take it you did see all the pages I put up with all my research and findings?

http://ttlinkdiscussion.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/samil-generation-statistics-for-first.html

http://ttlinkdiscussion.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/march-10-2013-update-to-my-experience.html

http://ttlinkdiscussion.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/continuation-of-samil-update.html

http://ttlinkdiscussion.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/an-update-to-my-expierence-with-our.html

http://ttlinkdiscussion.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/my-experience-of-networking-our-samil.html