flash 9 wont work. any help please?

i-luv-free-stuff

i have tried to install flash 9 on my laptop but i am having no luck.
it was working until i had a big problem with my hard drive and had to take it in to the shop to get repaired as windows would not boot up.

when i install it , it says i have the latest version and the movie on the adobe page works but when i try to view a video clip or get my auctiva scrolling gallery to work it says i need install latest version of flash.

i am on windows xp
using AOL

any help please?

rosy

Don't know if this will work for you or not but I had a similar problem with the flash player ( I also have XP and aol) - but I started using Firefox instead of Internet Explorer & suddenly the flash player worked when I used Firefox ( still doesn't work with IE ) ( incidentally I much prefer Firefox anyway now!)

i-luv-free-stuff

did it work in AOL?

i-luv-free-stuff

i think its somthing to do with activx but im probably wrong!

rosy

i-luv-free-stuff wrote: »

did it work in AOL?

I don't use the aol software to get onto aol now, I just go through Firefox and bring up the general aol site to get / send my emails( the one you would use to access aol from a PC that's not your own). When I did use the aol software to go on the internet it was using internet explorer, not Firefox, so the flash player wasn't working.
TBH I'm no expert and I just found the solution by accident ( someone had recommended Firefox to me and I gave it a go, the flash player working was an unexpected bonus). But it drove me mad for months before that trying to fix it, tweaking things on Internet Explorer, allowing this and banning that & I didn't know what I was doing and nothing worked.

i-luv-free-stuff

hi rosy
i installed firefox and flash works fine on it but still not on AOL.
you shouldnt have to use it though to view flash content. there must be a way round it and hopefully someone will find this thread and have an idea on how to sort it!
i would use lie help on AOL but it is being refurbished! hopefully thy refurbish there staff while they at it!

superscaper

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=12787807&postcount=4

i-luv-free-stuff

thanks superscraper
i had already tried that but i thought i would try it again but it still didnt work.
and as it works on firefox fine i just dont understand why it wont work on AOL and IE7?

i-luv-free-stuff

everything i read seems to say i need to unistall and reinstall.
i have tried this many times

i-luv-free-stuff

this is so frustrating!
anyone else have any ideas?

i-luv-free-stuff

i take it no one else has had this problem then?