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I could not believe that a brand new PC with Vista ultimate could not
play Youtube video even after doing the flash download from adobe!
Then reading up on this it seems to be a common problem without an
obvious fix, yet microsoft's help page doesnt seem to have a help page
on it afaics.
I am beginning to suspect that Microsoft is up to their old DOS days
tricks, where 'DOS isnt ready until 123 wont run'. i.e. since
Youtube is now owned by their chief competitor Google, why not make it
very difficult if not impossible to view Youtube content in a new
Vista PC? What a delicious marketing ploy! Ballmer must be sweating
buckets of joy over that one!
I am hoping Google brings some kind of legal action over this unfair
business practice of Microsoft's.
check out this cryptic registry hack fix, just to get Youtube to run!
unfrickinbeliievbla!!!!
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the problem i found was a missing registry item {D27CDB6E-
AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
if you go to this site http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
then download the Windows Flash Player 9 ActiveX control content
debugger (for IE) (EXE, 1.22 MB) run the installation & it will put
this missing registry item in.
then the youtube videos should work with IE7
NOTE: When i ran the installation i ran into an error but i chose to
ignore it and let it run anyway. Also if you run a registry cleaner
program make sure you exclude (so it does not strip this reference)
{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000} otherwise you will have to re-
install the above or manually put them back in.
play Youtube video even after doing the flash download from adobe!
Then reading up on this it seems to be a common problem without an
obvious fix, yet microsoft's help page doesnt seem to have a help page
on it afaics.
I am beginning to suspect that Microsoft is up to their old DOS days
tricks, where 'DOS isnt ready until 123 wont run'. i.e. since
Youtube is now owned by their chief competitor Google, why not make it
very difficult if not impossible to view Youtube content in a new
Vista PC? What a delicious marketing ploy! Ballmer must be sweating
buckets of joy over that one!
I am hoping Google brings some kind of legal action over this unfair
business practice of Microsoft's.
check out this cryptic registry hack fix, just to get Youtube to run!
unfrickinbeliievbla!!!!
-----------------------------------------------
the problem i found was a missing registry item {D27CDB6E-
AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
if you go to this site http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html
then download the Windows Flash Player 9 ActiveX control content
debugger (for IE) (EXE, 1.22 MB) run the installation & it will put
this missing registry item in.
then the youtube videos should work with IE7
NOTE: When i ran the installation i ran into an error but i chose to
ignore it and let it run anyway. Also if you run a registry cleaner
program make sure you exclude (so it does not strip this reference)
{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000} otherwise you will have to re-
install the above or manually put them back in.