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Thread: Adobe Flash Player

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    silly billy Guest

    adobe flash player

    adobe fash player how does it work i have sucessfully downloaded the latest
    version but when ever i need it it keeps sending me back to download again i
    hate the bloody thing is there another way around this

  2. #2
    Synapse Syndrome Guest
    Does Flash stop working when you use the Disk Cleanup tool, and select Clean
    Downloaded Program Files? If it does, it is unbelievable that they haven't
    fixed that after so many months.

  3. #3
    Dave H Guest

    Adobe Flash Player

    Hi,
    I have Vista home premium 32bit, flash player won't run after an update. To
    get flash player to work I have to restore back to 2/8/2008. I've tried
    uninstalling and reinstalling, but nothing, just get a blank screen. I
    emailed microsoft and they said contact Adobe, which I did but after trying
    what their help suggested still nothing. Can anyone help please

  4. #4
    Travis Rabe Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    You will need to completely rip out Flash Player with the Windows Install
    Cleanup utility and then re-install. There is a article on Adobe's website
    to if you go to the Flash player location telling which MS update causes the
    problem.

  5. #5
    Carey Frisch [MVP] Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    Download and run the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller:
    http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/view...nalId=tn_14157

    Afterward, right-click on the Internet Explorer icon located on
    your Taskbar and select: Run as administrator. Then visit:
    http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/downl...ShockwaveFlash

    and click on "Install Now".

  6. #6
    Dave H Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    Hi
    I've tried as suggested, but still no luck. Flash player will not work on
    anyupdate after 2/08/2008, I've used system restore several times back to
    this date and flash player works, the first update after this no go. Adobe
    web site keeps saying go to windows registry, but I'm not sure what to do.

  7. #7
    bpollard Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    I'm having this same exact problem. I have spent hours on it. I ran
    the uninstaller from Adobe, I also then ran IE7 as an administrator and
    try to reinstall (of course there was a restart of the system in
    between). but no luck. any ideas?!?!

  8. #8
    Augustday Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    Computer is five months old w/vista. Why is it so hard to get the adobe
    flash player to work on this system? I have looked at several answers in
    this thread, and it looks like I am not by myself with this problem. Would
    someone please, please tell me how to solve this once and for all. Many
    thanks

  9. #9
    bpollard Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    Yesterday I spent HOURS to try and get this to work. everything I have
    seen on the net I tried (uninstalling, reinstalling, running IE as
    administrator, installing the files as administrator (BTW my account has
    administrative rights). still no luck. so frustrating....
    anybody have any thoughts?

  10. #10
    Joaneee Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    I did all that stuff too, repeatedly. Followed all troubleshooting
    instructions from Adobe - finally, tried running IE as administrator BEFORE
    going to web site that uses Flash. Voila! Flash works. Try it!
    (Ironically, UAC refers to iexplore.exe as an unknown program from an
    unidentified publisher when I start it using Run as Administrator...)

    Strangely, my other Vista computer (an HP laptop) does not have this problem
    - runs Flash stuff whenever. The troublesome computer is a Dell desktop.

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    Joe Morris Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    doesn't answer the original question about Flash, but...

    My first reaction was that the "unknown publisher" warning was Dell's fault
    resulting from its delivery of a Dell-customized IE configuration but taking
    a look at an SP1 installation I see that the copy of IE doesn't claim to be
    signed, and trying to run it as admiistrator gets the "unknown publisher"
    flag -- what's going on?

    Turns out that one of the less-publicized corners of the UAC process seems
    to be getting a little more paranoid than usual. To demonstrate this, take
    this same IEXPLORE.EXE file for which UAC says "unknown publisher" and COPY
    (DO NOT MOVE!) it to C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32. Now right-click it and click "run
    as administrator" and it will say "Microsoft Windows" instead of "unknown
    publisher". The UAC code considers %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32 to be a trusted
    folder, but not %PROGRAMFILES%\Internet Explorer, so in its usual folder the
    fact that IEXPLORE.EXE is signed isn't considered worthy of notice by UAC.

    Note also that the properties page for IEXPLORE.EXE (and numerous other
    Vista files) don't show a tab named "Digital Signatures". The file is
    signed, but to show that a digital signature exists you need to use a tool
    such as Sysinternals' "SigCheck" utility.

    BTW: I can't guarantee that there won't be undesirable side effects from
    running IE out of %WINDIR%\SYTEM32, so (you did COPY and not MOVE, right?)
    delete the copy of IEXPLORE.EXE from \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.

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    Joaneee Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    Now that's pretty interesting! Thanks for the info, even tho it doesn't
    solve the Flash mystery. Running IE as Administrator is a viable workaround
    for me. btw, I do not yet have Vista SP1 installed.

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    Brian N Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    Carey, thanks the link, running unload and reload in administrator mode
    certainly works. However I have others using this computer and their
    accounts (non-administrator) do not run flash; any ideas on how to get around
    this?

  14. #14
    elizabeth c Guest

    adobe flash player

    I have a windows vista. I had adobe flash player, this morning a box popped
    up when I signed on to install a newer version of adobe flash. I clicked
    install now it said success, when I went to a web site that you need flash
    player to see certain things I could'nt see any thing. So I go to download
    flash player and Internet explorer says: Has blocked this site from using an
    active x control in a unsafe manner. as a result this page may not display
    correctly.I've tried doing everything that was suggested and nothing worked
    please help! thank you

  15. #15
    bkarena Guest

    Re: Adobe Flash Player

    I CANNOT install FP 9!!! I have installed and uninstalled so many times.
    I have tried running as an administrator... no luck!! I can see videos
    on the internet, but I am trying to install 9 because of an application
    used in an elearning initiative (that I am implementing) that must have
    9 to work.
    I go through the install process, the cute little video comes on to let
    me know that my download is successful! YAY! Then, unfortunately, there
    is a red x on the flash app in the control panel....
    I am not by any means a techy, but I usually can figure things out, or
    at least find someone else who can... I googled the topic (that is why I
    am here ), and I have tried EVERYBODY'S advice....
    I think I will now go find (or start) a list for recovering vista
    users...;)

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