FIX!: IE not showing some pages with Macromedia Flash

[Guest]

After many, many, many long days and nights of this
problem I figured I would let everyone know how it has
been resolved. And my story begins.

A couple months ago I installed some trial anti-virus
software. I then uninstalled it after the period was
over. Boy, remind me never to do that again! Certain
web sites (ESPN, rockstargames.com) wouldn't work because
it told me I needed to install Macromedia Flash. What
stumped me was that other web sites that had flash worked
flawlessly. I dumped my cookies, temp files and objects
and even reinstalled Macromedia Flash. But to no avail.
Finally I got smart and used a program called Process
Explorer from Sysinternals.com. Great program that tells
you what dll's are being used for your applications. I
found one that was called jscript.dll and one called
vbscript.dll. Hmmmm, I thought to myself I am getting
closer. I registered the jscript.dll file but to no
avail it didn't resolve my issue. I then tried the
vbscript.dll and to my amazement it worked! So to make a
long story short (too late) some sites use java script
and others use vb script. The ones that used java script
worked fine because my jscript.dll file was registered
properly. The vb script web sites did not. Register the
vbscript.dll file and all should be well. This may fix
other issues that you have with web sites that don't work
for some reason.

 

[Guest]

I have been having the same exact trouble and your post seems to be a life saver. However, I need further help from you. I did a search and have both jscript.dll and vbscript.dll in my C:\Windows\System32 directory; but I don't understand about registering them. How do you go about the registration. Thanks

 

[Guest]

On Windows 2000 you click Start button then Run and in the dialog box open field type: regsvr32 dllname
e.g. regsvr32 vbscript.dll

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll give it a try. For some reason I was unable to download Macromedia Flash, so I copied it from my other XP machine. I don't know if that will work or not, but I'll keep trying to download it. By the way, I had no problem whatsoever in downloading Macromedia Shock Wave - I don't know what's wrong with Flash.

 

[Guest]

Hello all. I followed the registering solutions and it still isn't working. I registered the vb and java. Any other suggestions
The other goofy things is when I go to macromedias website to download the flash player it will not let me. Very frustrating
Any help is greatfully appreciated