FlashGet Followup: Uninstall and Downgrade 3.4
Due to the massive amount of attention that my previous post about FlashGet 3.4 received, I’m now writing a follow-up on how to uninstall it completely, and then downgrade — to either 3.3 or the classic 1.96.
Here’s how you do it.
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Recently, Riot Games signed a partnership deal to a Southeast Asian game distribution company, which in turn caused the maker of the hit online RPG League of Legends to drop support for Southeast Asian clients. This means that gamers from Southeast Asia will not be able to access the game anymore, since geographical IP mapping will let the LoL servers know of the origin of the client.
What’s more, it’s been a few weeks now and still, there’s no news of the Southeast Asian version of LoL.
But thankfully, since the LoL server checks the origin of the client based on their IP’s geographical address, I’ve found a way to unblock it.
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Until it updated today to 3.4…
I mean, take a look at this screenshot:
A Screenshot of Flashget 3.4
What do you see? RIGHT. The one thing everybody hates about absolutely anything on the internet. The new FlashGot screen (though I gotta admit, the new silver-theme is smexy) is riddled with ads. Chinese Ads. Not only that. A Flash-like ad also appears ocassionally on your desktop, that’s right, outside the FlashGet screen.
I personally think this is waaay too much. This is overkill. And did I forget to mention that it also places a couple of Chinese URL links on your desktop?
Meh, I think I’ll try Free Download Manager or Orbit now.
UPDATE: Wow, apparently, FlashGet 3.4 isn’t even downloadable from its website yet! This probably means that only the users who already have it installed received the update. Strange enough, when I uninstall, the uninstaller from first to last was in total Chinese.
UPDATE 2: According to commenter Wommaster, the language on FlashGet 3.4 is Chinese, not Japanese. Thanks Wommaster!
UPDATE 3: I’ve written a guide on how to uninstall it completely and remove all traces of it, and then how to downgrade. See it here: http://kixtrix.com/2010/04/07/flashget-followup-uninstalling-and-downgrading-3-4/
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