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dlbhina622
dlbhina622
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June 15, 2014
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ActiveX failed to register during install

  • June 15, 2014
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Great. Running Flashplayer for years. Go to update to v14.0 and now I have none! Same error during install, "ActiveX failed to register." Tried everything. Deleted all. Turned off ActiveX filter. Run as Admin. Nothing works. Google the issue and find a dozen different ideas but none work. How can such a critical component like Flashplayer not download properly? Very disconcerting and disappointing.

Windows Vista Home Basic, IE9.

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dlbhina622
dlbhina622Author
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June 17, 2014

Fixed! After doing another complete uninstall, and discovering that Shockwave ActiveX Control was not enabled under Manage Add-Ons in IE, I decided to try the download with Firefox. Low and behold, it saved the download to my desktop, I ran it as Admin and Flash installed easily. Goodbye Internet Explorer. Hello Firefox.

pwillener
pwillener
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June 15, 2014

You don't tell us what you have actually tried; did you try the MSI installer http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/win/install_flash_player_14_active_x.msi ?

dlbhina622
dlbhina622Author
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June 15, 2014

Hello Pat:

1. I used the Flash Uninstaller, rebooted, then tried to download again. Same issue. I then tried a routine called fix.cmd

cd /d "%ProgramFiles%\Windows Resource Kits\Tools" subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /setowner=administrators /grant=administrators=f /grant=system=f

which also didn't help. I downloaded flashplayer_14_ax_debug.exe to desktop and ran as Admin, no help.

So now I ran your link, and it said it was successful. But when I went to the Test page, it said I didn't have Flash. So I rebooted and ran the v14. install again, same issue.

Active X failed to register.

What else can we do?

ps I just updated Shockwave without a problem.


pwillener
pwillener
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June 16, 2014

dlbhina622 wrote:

I rebooted and ran the v14. install again, same issue.

Ran what installer?  The MSI?  EXE?  AIH?

What files do you have in C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash ?

Did you

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