Flash Player Trouble

[Brandon]

Since "upgrading" to Vista, I have had many problems with Flash Player. I
know Flash Player shouldn't care what OS I'm running, but I never had these
problems on XP using IE 7.

What's happening is that I keep having to uninstall and reinstall Flash
Player for sites to recognize that it's installed. I'll go to a site, and
it will prompt me to install the player. Even if I do this though and it
looks like it succeeded according to the Adobe site, the original site still
doesn't recognize that it's installed. It's only when I use the Adobe
uninstall tool and then reinstall Flash player that it starts working.

Is there a fix for this . . . because it's a real pain.

 

[Pat DiScala]

Since "upgrading" to Vista, I have had many problems with Flash Player.
I know Flash Player shouldn't care what OS I'm running, but I never had
these problems on XP using IE 7.

What's happening is that I keep having to uninstall and reinstall Flash
Player for sites to recognize that it's installed. I'll go to a site,
and it will prompt me to install the player. Even if I do this though
and it looks like it succeeded according to the Adobe site, the original
site still doesn't recognize that it's installed. It's only when I use
the Adobe uninstall tool and then reinstall Flash player that it starts
working.

Is there a fix for this . . . because it's a real pain.

I have the exact same problem. I did notice that when I installed
netscape and/or opera it installed flash 8 I had it uninstall that and
use the adobe uninstall again and then reinstall flash 9.

 

[MICHAEL]

Since "upgrading" to Vista, I have had many problems with Flash Player. I know Flash Player
shouldn't care what OS I'm running, but I never had these problems on XP using IE 7.

What's happening is that I keep having to uninstall and reinstall Flash Player for sites to
recognize that it's installed. I'll go to a site, and it will prompt me to install the
player. Even if I do this though and it looks like it succeeded according to the Adobe site,
the original site still doesn't recognize that it's installed. It's only when I use the
Adobe uninstall tool and then reinstall Flash player that it starts working.

Is there a fix for this . . . because it's a real pain.

Try the standalone installer.

I think Justin posted the direct link to Adobe,
but I can never seem to find it. The link below
works just fine and the download is safe.

http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html


-Michael

 

[Stuart Forshaw]

Flash doesn't appear to install correctly, this is how to resolve the issue.

c:windows/system32/macromed/flash and doubleclick FlashUtil9b.exe and
install it, all should be OK

Regards
Stuart

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Since "upgrading" to Vista, I have had many problems with Flash Player. I
know Flash Player shouldn't care what OS I'm running, but I never had
these problems on XP using IE 7.

What's happening is that I keep having to uninstall and reinstall Flash
Player for sites to recognize that it's installed. I'll go to a site, and
it will prompt me to install the player. Even if I do this though and it
looks like it succeeded according to the Adobe site, the original site
still doesn't recognize that it's installed. It's only when I use the
Adobe uninstall tool and then reinstall Flash player that it starts
working.

Try uninstalling / reinstalling Flash Player. Use the uninstaller at
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157
Flash player download:
http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/
If there are still problems see
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb

 

[Guest]

I had the same problems, I tried all the mentioned fixes and none
worked...while visiting Komando.com I needed to load flash to see the poll
though I had aready done so several times as suggested above. So I click to
load now and haven't had a problem since....with any other site I have
visited...might work for you too. Dave~

 

[Guest]

Adobe's answer:
Run a standalone version of Flash Player ActiveX installer.
You must uninstall the ActiveX Flash Player and then install the
standalone version.

ActiveX uninstaller: (Thanks to previous post.)
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157

Standalone ActiveX installer:
http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

 

[Dave]

Since "upgrading" to Vista, I have had many problems with Flash Player. I
know Flash Player shouldn't care what OS I'm running, but I never had these
problems on XP using IE 7.

What's happening is that I keep having to uninstall and reinstall Flash
Player for sites to recognize that it's installed. I'll go to a site, and
it will prompt me to install the player. Even if I do this though and it
looks like it succeeded according to the Adobe site, the original site still
doesn't recognize that it's installed. It's only when I use the Adobe
uninstall tool and then reinstall Flash player that it starts working.

Is there a fix for this . . . because it's a real pain.

This worked for me:

http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/2153/vista_adobe_flash_player

Dave

 

[Guest]

thank-you

Flash doesn't appear to install correctly, this is how to resolve the issue.

c:windows/system32/macromed/flash and doubleclick FlashUtil9b.exe and
install it, all should be OK

Regards
Stuart