For years I have been experiencing frustrating video watching on youtube especially. This was even at slowest speed setting. I have DSL. Not the world's fast, but it is DSL. Videos seemed like I was watching on dial-up. Today I went to watch a video and every video screen would claim that my Adobe Flash Player was not updated and posed a security threat. I tried every kind of Adobe update possible. When I finally got to what seemed like the right Adobe page to install the most up-to-date FlashPlayer, the installer froze up. I had to go into Task Manager and stop the download. Finally, fed up with the whole thing, Google, FlashPlayer, the internet in general, I said to heck with it and uninstalled FlashPlayer entirely. It had just been updated less than 2 months ago. Just for a drill, I went to youtube to try to watch the video I wanted to watch an hour ago, and guess what? It played better than any video I've watched on there in years, with NO FLASHPLAYER seemingly installed. I didn't even have to decrease the speed. It was in HD and I was still seeing smooth video. Now why would that be?