Adobe Flash won't work ...

csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
edited October 2010 in Science & Tech
Adobe/Macromedia won't work. When I try to play clips off the web or anything else involving Flash it simply tells me it's not installed. I go thru the install motions and everything goes well ...Flash installed. Then I get the same results. This has been going on for months and I'd like to get it to work for a change.

Any help appreciated.

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  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    csimon wrote:
    Adobe/Macromedia won't work. When I try to play clips off the web or anything else involving Flash it simply tells me it's not installed. I go thru the install motions and everything goes well ...Flash installed. Then I get the same results. This has been going on for months and I'd like to get it to work for a change.

    Any help appreciated.

    in which browser? or is it all of them that have this problem?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    IE6 ...it's the only one I have. Works fine at work though.
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    I would go in to tools->manage addons->addons that have been used->

    check to see if flash is there in one form or another, and if it is enabled. If it is enabled, click update activex or whatever it is and it may or may not run you through installation of the latest and greatest.

    Then we can take it from there :bigggrin:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Gravite2090 wrote:
    I would go in to tools->manage addons->addons that have been used->

    check to see if flash is there in one form or another, and if it is enabled. If it is enabled, click update activex or whatever it is and it may or may not run you through installation of the latest and greatest.

    Then we can take it from there :bigggrin:
    I went there and it is enabled but the Update ActiveX button is greyed out?
    ANy suggestions?
  • PirateNinjaPirateNinja Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Sorry if this is obvious, but do you have it selected on the left when you are attempting to get at the update button?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited September 2006
    Gravite2090 wrote:
    Sorry if this is obvious, but do you have it selected on the left when you are attempting to get at the update button?
    yep ...obviously! LOL
    maybe there is a funked registry setting or something ...idunno
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    ahhhhhhhh ...I figured it out finally!
    All I had to do was uninstall it and turn off AVG. It install in a snap and runs fine now@!
  • Anjuna7Anjuna7
    edited October 2006
    PLEASE tell me EXACTLY what you did!!! I have AVG installed and I'm sure the problem that I'm having with Flash has been since then! It's the very same problem that you have said in your first thread!

    I'm not sure if I'm reading it properly...I'm not very good on here:rant: LOL! ... are you saying turn AVG OFF (HOW do I do that...and if I do...will I not then be susceptible of picking up a virus?? - do I then LEAVE AVG switched off??). Do I uninstall AVG completely....if so...what other free virus protector can I download?

    Help! It's been driving me mad for 3 weeks now!!!!:wtf:
  • DeanoDeano Leicestershire, England
    edited October 2006
    Anjuna7 wrote:
    PLEASE tell me EXACTLY what you did!!! I have AVG installed and I'm sure the problem that I'm having with Flash has been since then! It's the very same problem that you have said in your first thread!

    I'm not sure if I'm reading it properly...I'm not very good on here:rant: LOL! ... are you saying turn AVG OFF (HOW do I do that...and if I do...will I not then be susceptible of picking up a virus?? - do I then LEAVE AVG switched off??). Do I uninstall AVG completely....if so...what other free virus protector can I download?

    Help! It's been driving me mad for 3 weeks now!!!!:wtf:

    i think he means just turning AVG off, not uninstalling it, and then reinstalling flash. And to turn it off, i think you just right click the icon in the system tray and select "quit control centre"? :smiles:
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Yeah just turn it off. The problem now is that each time I need Flash I have to turn it off ...reinstall Flash ...then turn AVG back on again when I'm done. This really sucks.
  • DeanoDeano Leicestershire, England
    edited October 2006
    Do you have a program called SpyBlaster installed on your pc? If so, click on "Tools" then go to the tab "Flash Killer" and uncheck "Disable Flash in IE". That should fix the problem, but obviously only if you have SpyBlaster installed on your pc.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Deano wrote:
    Do you have a program called SpyBlaster installed on your pc? If so, click on "Tools" then go to the tab "Flash Killer" and uncheck "Disable Flash in IE". That should fix the problem, but obviously only if you have SpyBlaster installed on your pc.
    well I think I use spyblaster or something like that. I'll try it and hope it works thanks!
  • DeanoDeano Leicestershire, England
    edited October 2006
    Can you let me know if it works please?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Deano wrote:
    Can you let me know if it works please?
    surely!
  • Anjuna7Anjuna7
    edited October 2006
    Many thanks for your replies guys!!

    I THINK I've done it!!!:celebrate Not quite sure HOW though!!

    What I did.....

    First I tried turning off AVG...I went into programs...AVG...Control Centre.
    THEN you double on AVG Resident Shield box and then uncheck 'Turn On AVG Resident Shield Protection.'

    I think this is when I tried installing Flash again...no luck...same as before...so I think I then went back and Checked the box in the AVG Control centre back on again...so that I AM still covered by the virus protector.

    I THEN went into Google and put in HOW to uninstall Adobe Flash Player plug-in and Active X Control....try this link or put what I did into Google!
    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157

    Did what it told me to do. Then I went into www.micromedia.com and tried to download Flash AGAIN! THIS TIME I DIDN'T UNCHECK THE YAHOO TOOLBAR!!!....and it worked!!!:eek3: I still have my AVG working fully too - I don't really WANT the Yahoo toolbar..and I know that I can uninstall it...but....I think I'll leave it JUST where it is...for the moment anyway!!!
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Deano wrote:
    Do you have a program called SpyBlaster installed on your pc? If so, click on "Tools" then go to the tab "Flash Killer" and uncheck "Disable Flash in IE". That should fix the problem, but obviously only if you have SpyBlaster installed on your pc.
    I;m using adaware se ...I dont see any options for IE or flash or anything like that.,
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited October 2006
    Anjuna7 wrote:
    Many thanks for your replies guys!!

    I THINK I've done it!!!:celebrate Not quite sure HOW though!!

    What I did.....

    First I tried turning off AVG...I went into programs...AVG...Control Centre.
    THEN you double on AVG Resident Shield box and then uncheck 'Turn On AVG Resident Shield Protection.'

    I think this is when I tried installing Flash again...no luck...same as before...so I think I then went back and Checked the box in the AVG Control centre back on again...so that I AM still covered by the virus protector.

    I THEN went into Google and put in HOW to uninstall Adobe Flash Player plug-in and Active X Control....try this link or put what I did into Google!
    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157

    Did what it told me to do. Then I went into www.micromedia.com and tried to download Flash AGAIN! THIS TIME I DIDN'T UNCHECK THE YAHOO TOOLBAR!!!....and it worked!!!:eek3: I still have my AVG working fully too - I don't really WANT the Yahoo toolbar..and I know that I can uninstall it...but....I think I'll leave it JUST where it is...for the moment anyway!!!
    I tried this and it works so far ...time will tell but so far everything looks good!
    I even went so far as to uninstall the toolbar and it's still working. So far so good!
  • Anjuna7Anjuna7
    edited October 2006
    :D Whaaaaa Hooooo!!!! I'll leave mine a few days and MIGHT uninstall the toolbar!!! (I'll wait to see how your one goes first! LOL!)

    SUCCESS!!! (Phew...although it took me long enough and at times the PC nearly went out of the window!!!)
  • mrpropheciesmrprophecies
    edited October 2007
    I tried those things. I have both the new IE and Mozilla Firefox, neither of which seem to play shockwave flash. When I got this computer a few months ago, the flash worked perfectly fine, but all of the sudden, it's like it disappeared. I read about the AVG, but I don't have AVG. Also, I checked the allow script function in the Internet Tools, and still I don't seem to have flash working. I can't even locate it in my PC after having it installed. I clicked on the Adobe Flash Update in my Program Files, but it says Installation Was Unsuccessful. Why is it doing this to me? It's driving me up a wall.

    PLEASE HELP, ANYONE!!!
  • tatyweeztatyweez West Yorkshire
    edited October 2010
    csimon wrote:
    Adobe/Macromedia won't work. When I try to play clips off the web or anything else involving Flash it simply tells me it's not installed. I go thru the install motions and everything goes well ...Flash installed. Then I get the same results. This has been going on for months and I'd like to get it to work for a change.

    Any help appreciated.


    I am going through the same thing, I cant get anything to work. I got told to downlaod the latest version of java first.. So I did still hasnt worked. Maybe it might work for you, just a try. Hope this has helped a bit. If you find any other way. let me know please :)
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