Flash Player Crashes IE6 (Internet Explorer)

[Guest]

Has anyone else had this problem? I can no longer run the Macromedia's Flash
player in Windows XP with IE6 without getting a ton of explorer crashes,
always with the same message (IE has encountered a problem and must
close.....). How can I find out why this is happening? Microsoft and
Macromedia (now Adobe) have no answers that I can find. Please help. Thanks
in advance.
Rob

 

[Marcus]

See if KB896688 Update is installed in add /remove programs. If it
is......then gt rid of it. Reboot and see if Flash Player works. Please let
us know.

Marcus


Has anyone else had this problem? I can no longer run the Macromedia's Flash
player in Windows XP with IE6 without getting a ton of explorer crashes,
always with the same message (IE has encountered a problem and must
close.....). How can I find out why this is happening? Microsoft and
Macromedia (now Adobe) have no answers that I can find. Please help. Thanks
in advance.
Rob

 

[Guest]

Marcus,

Same problem for me - I do NOT have the update installed though. Any other
ideas - my daughter wants to kill me, many of her online games are freezing.

Thanks,

-Kate

 

[PA Bear]

ActiveX controls may not load as expected in Internet Explorer due to
defense in depth changes introduced in cumulative security update 896688
(MS05-052): http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=909889

A Web page that contains a custom ActiveX control may not load as expected
in Internet Explorer due to defense in depth changes introduced in
cumulative security update 896688 (MS05-052):
http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=909738

The fix detailed in 909889 involving the Registry and OLE32.DLL is available
at http://patch-info.de/IE/Downloads/OLEfix.zip and
http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/kb896688_fix.zip (a small VB app that
checks the 4 values and offers a repair option if any of them are
incorrect).

 

[Guest]

Rob,

I tried the registry change but still get the same error message about 20-30
seconds into the game (freezes IE):

AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName: flash8.ocx
ModVer: 8.0.22.0 Offset: 00054b1f

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

-Kate

 

[Guest]

I have also tried the uninstall and reinstall from the Macromedia website.

 

[Guest]

I have also tried the uninstall and reinstall from the Macromedia website.

Did you try removing KB896688? I haven't tried that yet, because when you go
to remove it, Windows pops up warnings about certain programs not working if
that fix is uninstalled.
Rob

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Has anyone else had this problem? I can no longer run the Macromedia's
Flash player in Windows XP with IE6 without getting a ton of explorer
crashes, always with the same message (IE has encountered a problem and
must close.....). How can I find out why this is happening? Microsoft and
Macromedia (now Adobe) have no answers that I can find. Please help.
Thanks in advance.
Rob

I get this on one of my PCs too - I dug around a while ago in the Macromedia
forums and there were loads of posts suggesting an issue with the Flash
Player on machines using the onboard C-Media sound on VIA based motherboards
(the machine I have a problem with has the KT133 chipset, my other PC which
does not has an nForce2 chipset). Only Flash pages utilising audio have
problems. The result of most of the threads was that the Macromedia Flash
developers were aware of the issue, but did not have a timeframe for a fix,
and as they were being bought by Adobe development was being frozen on the
player. I'm not sure if the business situation has changed, but the
technical issue is still there. I managed to reduce the number of crashes by
reducing sound hardware acceleration in Control Panel down to zero, but it
still crashes from time to time - much to the annoyance of my daughter who
spends a lot of time on the CBeebies website, which is 99% Flash based.

Dan

 

[PA Bear]

Do you use SpywareBlaster and is Flash Killer enabled?

Did you run http://www.dougknox.com/xp/utils/kb896688_fix.zip ?

 

[Sean MacDermant]

I can no longer run the Macromedia's Flash player in Windows XP with
IE6 without getting a ton of explorer crashes,
always with the same message (IE has encountered a problem and must
close.....).

I tried the MS suggested fix
(http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?kbid=909738 ) -- it doesn't
work. Still get the same error message:

AppName: iexplore.exe AppVer: 6.0.2900.2180 ModName:
flash8.ocx
ModVer: 8.0.22.0 Offset: 00054b1f

I still get this problem all the time. Does anyone know the deal?

Killing Flash8 and installing Flash7 works but then lots of sites are
using flash8 now and they won't work. reinstall flash8 and the problem
comes back. what is the fix?

Thanks.

--Sean