Flash player

GunJack

have you tried adobe's own troubleshooting method linked to in post #6, including use of their removal tool ??

G_M

GunJack wrote: »

have you tried adobe's own troubleshooting method linked to in post #6, including use of their removal tool ??

Yup.

And for avoidance of doubt I've just de-installed AGAIN using the download from Adobe, and re-installed, sucessfully it tells me!

And once again, it shows up on programmes and Features but will not run. Any video I try tells me to download Flash!

UUUUUgghhhh!

Toxteth_OGrady

Have you checked Flash in both the 32-bit IE and 64-bit IE. You may be re-installing in one and checking in the other.

G_M

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Have you checked Flash in both the 32-bit IE and 64-bit IE. You may be re-installing in one and checking in the other.

Checked both

64bit - %windir%\system32\macromed\flash

and/or

32bit - %windir%\syswow64\macromed\flash

and Flash appears in both.

I then found this site:

http://techdows.com/2010/09/how-to-downgrade-from-ie9-to-ie8.html

so uninstalled IE9. Great I thought. Others have had issues with IE9. All will be fine once I'm back on IE8.

Ha! Now running on IE8, but STILL have

a) Flash won't run
b) Google searches freeze when clicking through to page 2 of search results.

EDIT: Progress!
* If I log in as administrator, flash player works.
* if I log in as myself, it doesn't. ....

G_M

Well, another 5 hours wasted.

Having read:

As many of us in the Adobe support forums suspected, it is a permissions problem. This is the fix:

1. Close all instances of IE.
2. Get the Flash Uninstaller from Adobe and run it elevated as admin. You need to get the latest version from Adobe as it is updated with each new revision of Flash.
3. Run Regedit and find this registry key: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/MIME/Database/Content Type/Application/x-shockwave-flash. Delete the key.
4. Reinstall Flash from IE.
5. Browse to the pages that weren’t displaying properly, and verify that they display successfully.

I followed the instructions. No change.

Flash (and Google searches) still both work fine in Administrator log-on, but not as a user.

I don't get it. It all worked OK on IE8 before the upgrade to 9. Now I've reverted to 8, but still does not work.

Also now get constant gold bar message "IE has bloked activeX for your protection". This on the Adobe site for testing Flash! And IE gives no option to over-ride the block.

Trillionaire

Colour me puzzled but WHY would you spent SO MUCH TIME on IE:eek: when you could be using Chrome or Firefox? I am genuinely puzzled. I haven't used IE for years. I've been a FireFox user instead and, this year, my son downloaded Chrome - which I now occasionally use. I give my loyalty to what works.

G_M

Trillionaire wrote: »

Colour me puzzled but WHY would you spent SO MUCH TIME on IE:eek: when you could be using Chrome or Firefox? I am genuinely puzzled. I haven't used IE for years. I've been a FireFox user instead and, this year, my son downloaded Chrome - which I now occasionally use. I give my loyalty to what works.

Green? Blue? !!

I guess the answer is
* it has worked fine for me for years
* I'm running the same applications as before so don't see why it should not continue to work
* experience with other issues has taught me that usually the solutions are really simple/basic ..... once you know what they are!
* the longer I've spent on it, the more determined (OK - stubborn!) I get not to have totally wasted that time

G_M

Bump.

Anyone got any new ideas?

poppy10_2

G_M wrote: »

Bump.

Anyone got any new ideas?

Why keep banging your head against a brick wall? You say you stuck with IE9 because it worked - it's not working for you now despite your best efforts, so maybe now's the time to switch.

http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
http://www.google.com/chrome/

demystified

Yeah I had exactly the same problem, you wouldn't be using Windows 7 and upgraded from IE8 to IE9 at some point would you? Flash would never work correctly in IE9 although it works fine with FF and Opera.

I uninstalled IE9 and went back to IE8 and Flash worked absolutely fine after that (hated IE9 anyway).

Why do I even bother with IE anyway? My other browsers have masses of tabs open and sometimes its easier to just boot up IE for something quick and then close it.

http://www.opera.com/browser/