# Detecting flash and swaping the images
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-flash-and-swaping-the-images/26004
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 18, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-flash-and-swaping-the-images/26004 "2003-07-18T13:39:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@sureal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sureal)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-flash-and-swaping-the-images/26004/1 "2003-07-18T13:39:54Z")
Hi all,
well, i’ve been away from the flash scene for a L o n g time …so this may well have been asnwered already.
BUT essentially i want to achive the following…
a normal html (or asp site), and I will be placing some graphics on the page.
I need to find a way to find out if the client has the flash player installed (flash detection)… BUT the hard part being … if no flash or shockwave detected, Replace the swf’s (image swap) all images with these animated gif’s…
I’m sure its out there, but i couldn’t find it, and I’m guessing it’ll be a bit of code you place on the webpage…
and the last thing is… how can i test this ? how do i completely “remove” flash and the shockwave players from the computer and still keep my version of flash mx loaded… if possible, I don’t want to have to uninstall everything, esepecially keep on uninstalling flash mx, to test it… ?
any help and suggestions would be greatly appreciated guys.
Sureal (-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2003, 1:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/detecting-flash-and-swaping-the-images/26004/2 "2003-07-18T13:46:36Z")
haha, well, we must have posted our questions at the same time. Because my “What if?” post is basically exact same question. I would greatly appreciate learning the same thing.