Flash CS3 (on Vista) Crashes Instead of Publishing - Puppies in Danger
Let me preface this by saying that I am NOT a Vista hater. It would be easy to be, all the cool kids are doing it. In high school the rebels would hang out in the woods behind the school smoking. Today, they smoke penguins - apparently.
Anyway, I ran into a crazy Vista/Flash CS3 problem that frustrated me so much I was fully prepared to kick a puppy, and was stopped from doing so strictly by a shortage of puppies on hand. I had just created a somewhat complex animation using Flash CS3. When I tried publishing it, it crashed. I restarted Flash and tried to publish. It crashed again. Restarted computer opened Flash and tried to publish, crashed again. That’s three times with the crashing.
Needless to say, I continued crashing Flash dozens more times to confirm my theory that this shit be broke.
After every crash an increasingly smug error box told me that there was a problem with event name BEX/bex.exe. I searched around for the error online and found a number of forums explaining it was a common problem. Some Vista fanbois even tried to convince me that crashing was a feature.
A few people managed to solve it by uninstalling and reinstalling CS3. I’m really lazy and didn’t want to have to do that. I justified my laziness because other people were claiming they had tried doing that without success.
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