Bypass Security so you can play Flash videos and Games

So, if you have ever been at a work/school/restricted computer and cannot play Flash games or videos, good news! There is an easy workaround even if the installers will not work.

Step 1 - install Firefox

• get the file from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
• Run the installer, and choose Custom installation
• You want to install it inside the My Documents folder
• Preferably, create a folder inside your My Documents called FireFox and install it there

Step 2 - download the Flash plugin

• Right click and choose 'Save as' on the following link
• http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/xpi/current/flashplayer-win.xpi
• Rename the file to flashplayer-win.zip
• If you get a warning, ignore

step 3 - install the plugin manually

• open the firefox folder plugins folder
  
• probably located somewhere like this:
• C:\Documents and Settings\My_User_Name\My Documents\FireFox\plugins
• Open the flashplayer-win.zip and copy two files into your plugins directory
• You will need to copy over NPSWF32.dll (required) and NPSWF32_FlashUtil.exe (optional, just help files)

Step 4 - restart flash and start browsing!

Hope that helps someone. A little reasoning behind what we did:
We installed into the my documents folder so that no matter what user you are, you have full permissions to write, execute, and modify files (basically gets rid of that annoying "you need to be an administrator to do this" dialog)
*.xpi files are the same thing as *.zip files, just with a different extension. They can be renamed easily and that gives easy access to all the files we need

Hamy