continuous download of Flash Player

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June 23, 2006
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This has been going on for quite sometime and I've just never found any solution. On sites with Flash it asks me to download the player. I have the player already, but I download it anyway. The box on the Flash site shows that yes, I do have Flash installed now. Then I go back to the site that uses Flash and I'm back to the start - please download Flash Player.

I can't understand why if it's on my computer, why the site keeps asking me to download it again, yet it shows I do have it on my computer.

I started to use Macromedia Flash 8 Training from the Source, James English, and needed to play Flash in one of the tutorials. It sent me to the download site. I downloaded, shows the Flash movement in the sample box that if you have Flash you will see it in the box. I go back to the Flash site and once again - wants me to download Flash.

So it's just a continuous circle with no end.

Would anyone have ANY idea at all why something like this would happen? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I don't know what else to try.

PJ Kinann
pjkinann@aol.com

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Anonymous

>>>>The best aswer for you is to
uninstall ie7. You system will revert back to IE6 and things will all work
again. >>>>
I'm confused why people are talking about Internet Explorer 6 and 7 now instead of Flash. Flash has been the problem. What does IE have to do with it? And......
Actually, I don't think this is a good solution, reinstalling the old version of Flash. Why? Because many Flash sites are designed to work only with newer versions of Flash. So consequently, when you are using Flash 6 and you go to a site that has been designed for Flash 8 and above will still require you install a newer version before you can view the Flash. (like a lot of the videos I put on line on my website and my clients' sites -- I have the option of installing for Flash 6 or 7 or Flash 8 and above -- I usually do it for the newer versions because we all assume that everyone updates their software).

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Anonymous

<<<Sounds like its your wife that is the problem .. not IE7 or microsoft or
Flash. Perhaps you should uninstall your wife and get a an updated version?<<<
Well, I thought in the midst of the crisis a little laughter is needed. I thought that was rather clever and cute. In fact, maybe my husband is sabotaging my Flash and I need to uninstall him and get an updated version! :o)

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stefanhajek

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I've seen some advice for PCs, but little to nothing for Macs. When I install Flash 9 Player, it tells me it's successful and then proceeds to tell me I have 7 installed. No amount of deleting, uninstalling, reinstalling, or rebooting has done anything at all to change this. Even when I run the uninstall, it still says I have version 7 installed. You tell me.

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stefanhajek

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Jeckyl,

Dude, what is your deal? A large group of consumers are having trouble and looking for a solution. Your heckling is doing anything but making you look like a wannabe superior dork with nothing to do. Isn't there some gaming chat room where your time could be more appreciated, because your comments are doing nothing.

So ends the campaign for Jeckyl for Devil's Advocate.

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Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

Look at the thread I posted earlier: Run the flash uninstaller, reboot,
search you harddrive for any remaining *flash*.ocx and delete them, reboot,
reinstall flash from the website. If its still not working, look in your
registry for any *flash*.ocx and ensure that any references are for the
correct version of flash ocx in the correct area (usually
c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash) .. post here with your results and we'll
see what we can work out from there.
--
Jeckyl

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Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

> and still no solutions. I never had any of these problems before Adobe
> took
> over the Flash technology

I think that's coincidental .. you might as well say its because os the US
presence in Iraq, or global warming :)
--
Jeckyl

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stefanhajek

Participating Frequently

Yeah, I've never had real player installed, and I've run the Flash uninstaller on both my systems SEVERAL times. I have rebooted more times than I can count, and still no solutions. I never had any of these problems before Adobe took over the Flash technology, so I will assume that they are pushing things out and leaving consumers to deal with their nightmares and figure it all out for themselves, which is typical of Adobe in general (as in Adobe Bridge issues). So, I have nothing but problems with no solutions. I appreciate everyone trying to work together to solve each others' problems, but isn't this something for Adobe to figure out and solve? Their solutions just aren't working, and they actually PAY people to figure this out. Good use of the corporate dollar, apparently.

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lamb_of_trivium

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ok it worked for 4 days then crashed when my wife did something so on more research I found it will never work with ie7 so lets all give up. Actually there are ton of threads on this. "By Design" Microsoft has removed
almost all of it's previous functionality in order to add the new tabbing
system. Flash players and many standard addins no longer work. Microsofts
answer for this is to disable and uninstall all addins and some how thing the
internet is going to remove all multimedia. The best aswer for you is to
uninstall ie7. You system will revert back to IE6 and things will all work
again. However, in many cases services installed with ie7 and not uninstalled
with the ie7 uninstaller will also cause problems. The only solution to this
is to re-install service pack2. Make sure any time you are prompted about
overwriting a file that is newer than the one in sp2 that you choose to
overwrite the new file. Things like network connections and other problems
will persist if you don't.

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Mandy_loo

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When I just tried to play a game online a box poped up "The page you are veiwing uses Java. More information is available from the Microsoft website."
I downloaded Java to my computer last week because it was saying that. I also have Adobe flash player 9 Avtivex and now Real Alternative 1.51..... Please help i have no idea what to do now.