Adobe flash 11 installs but not integrated into ie8

Question

I have an XP/32 SP3 system using IE8. I use the latest Avast, and have realplayer 16. I temporarily disabled all add-ons today, and subsequently I have been unable to re-enable as the entry has disappeared from the list of add-ons. I have uninstalled and re-installed IE8, ditto with Adobe Flash using the Adobe Flash removal tool, and then re-installed the latest IE version. I have used the Flash test option and the screen is just greyed out. So clearly although there are no error diagnostics during the install, the add-on is not being integrated into IE8. Hence URLs that require flash show an error.

All M$ updates uptodate.

What could I try?

9999rob · Accepted Answer

I have actually been able to resolve this problem....eventually.

I used the adobe Flash remover program, rebooted, deleted the windows\system32\macromed/flash folders. Reset IE8, but this time also removing all personal settings as well.

Re-installed Flash and hey-presto shockwave appears as an add-on..

Thank you for your help and interest.

9999rob · Answer

Thanks for your reply - I did delete the flash/macromed directories as suggested by Adobe prior to the last re-insatll. Here is a screen grab of the flash directory as now.

Shockwave is not appearing as an add-on in IE8.

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