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Originally Posted by kennyc
I can't find which of these multiple threads I posted it in, but I was having trouble with the SonyStyle store because of Flash. I found that I had to log in to the site and it would then display properly. It was/is acting differently on IE vs Firefox. It's like I'm "sort of" logged in because if I actually log in the display or the three readers shows up, or it works if I log out, but doesn't display when it first goes there and "thinks" it's me. Very weird.
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Good point. IE 8 has never acted well with Flash, especially the 64 bit version of IE 8. I'm not sure if it is specifically related to IE 8 or something else in Windows Vista/7.
As far everyone else's questions: Been there--done that. I had a clean install of Windows 7 with Admin rights, I installed all the latest Adobe and Sony software. I still had major issues. The main problem was that the WLAN connection would get lost followed immediately by a spike in the CPU usage to 98%, effectively rendering the PC totally useless. I would have to restart to get the WLAN back and put the CPU back to 5% usage. As soon as I opened the Sony Reader Store, the same problem immediately occurred. If you have no internet connection and/or your CPU is staying at 98% usage, yu won't be downloading any darn books or doing anything else with your PC. Hence my complete purging the Sony software and Adobe Digital Editions. This returned my PC normal operating condition.
I then installed all the latest Sony and Adobe software on my HP Mini netbook running Windows XP Home. It works but with a strange quirk. For some reason some books get downloaded twice. For example, I downloaded
The Iliad and received two files, The_Iliad.epub and The_Iliad_1.epub. Both files are identical. Another quirky occurence was when I downloaded
The Summer of 1787 and got the following two files, The_Summer_of_1787.epub and The_Summer_of_1788.epub. Once again both files were identical.
The Sony library software has always been second-rate at best. Now it is third-rate or lower, IMHO! And Adobe has always had bloated software, at least as far as documentation related software goes. It is like the two worrst software companies got together and produced a hideous offspring.
