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Anonymous

Question

continuous download of Flash Player

Forum|Forum|19 years ago
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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Mandy_loo

Participating Frequently

Ok.... i finally found people who are having the same problems as I am..... I have read through everything and I uninstalled version 9, installed version 6 and it didn't help me. I checked to see if I have real player and It doesn't look like I do. What should I do?

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Anonymous

I'm definitely going to have a read! I just hope that was really the total of this issue. It sure got resolved quickly after getting rid of that player, but I can only hope that's all it is. So thanks for getting me to looking around at my system, etc etc. When I saw the Real Player I thought, you know? I don't like that thing anyway, didn't even know it was on my computer, and what the heck, I'm going to UNINSTALL every single dang player on this thing and start over!

I might add though, come to think of it, because I wrote it down, that while I was in there I saw an update 7 along with update 6 of the J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 I figured I didn't need both of them so I deleted 6.

I don't know what that is, and I know sometimes one update will depend on another, but at this point I was ready to try anything.

Ya think that was anything that could have helped the situation?

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Sesamboy

Participating Frequently

Finally I got it working.
While browsing my maps again I found in system32/macromedia/flash the file FlashUtil9b which updated the flashplayer.
It wasn't there when I looked last times but now it was.
It solved my problems!

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Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

There are a lot of people out there who refuse to install real player .. its
a good decision not to have it. Look for 'real alternative' and install
that instead (so you can still play real files, but without that nasty
player)

have a read:

http://jogin.com/weblog/2004/2/29/real-obnoxious
http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/456

Maybe the lastest versions are better .. but real player has a bad name.
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jeckyl

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Anonymous

Well, I uninstalled it again, and this time I went everywhere to uninstall -- through Systems32, the control panel and my program files on C drive to make sure it was NO WHERE on my computer.
I also UNINSTALLED REALPLAYER.

I now am viewing YouTube.com w/o a problem.

We'll see how long that lasts.

I think next time a site asks me to download Real Player I won't do it. May have been a conflict, because I've uninstalled Flash Player a gazillion times and it has never worked.

As soon as I uninstall Real Player, and Flash, and reinstall, it is now working.

I hope that was the problem.

Thanks for all your suggestions.

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Anonymous

uninstall_flash_player.exe Okay, so I'm searching for this and my computer is not coming up with anything. But I went under System32 > Macro > Flash > UninstlFl application and clicked on that and it said are you sure you want to uninstall Adobe Flash Player and I said OH MY GOSH YES GET RID OF IT! :D

But I see it's all still there. So I'll reboot AGAIN. I think I'm wearing out my computer rebooting it LOL :D

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Anonymous

And of course that all started when I began the install/uninstall/install/uninstall nightmare! :D

Okay, so when I uninstall (have done it through CP and through the uninstall site and the uninstall icon) but what is the best way to "kill" any "flash" ocx on my PC?? so that I get EVERTHING and don't leave even a trace.

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Anonymous

Looking in my registry and in the HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ folder I don't have the CLSID folder that you mentioned:
CLSID\{1171A62F-05D2-11D1-83FC-00A0C9089C5A}, the
InpocServer32 key is set for

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Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

> Flash 6 version I was able to view everything everywhere anytime and never
> had
> a problem.

Probably because flash 6 was installed nicely and things are screwed on your
machine since then.

It may not really be a flash issue (if it was, then noone woudl be able to
wathc flash movies with the new player)

its most likely something gone screwy on your PC (whether or not that is
your fualt, of adobe's, or microsoft's or something else or some weird
combination)
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Jeckyl

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Newsgroup_User

Inspiring

for a start, most of those should be in the macromed/flash folder inside
system 32

and you shouldn't have so many different flash ocx's there

that's probably why its getting confused.

try uninstalling, rebooting, killing off any *flash*.ocx on you PC,
rebooting, and then installing again.

it looks like your pc is screwed with too many flash ocx's living there ..
no wonder it doesn't know what its got and what it doesn't.

> In my Windows System 32 I have:
> Flash8a.ocx
> Flash9b.ocx
> flash.ocx
> FlashAuthor.cfg
> FlashUtil9b
> UninstFl
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Jeckyl

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richteel

Participant

I did not even read anything past this message quoted below, so if someone stated this already I apologize.

I did a search of my system and found that I had Flash8b.ocx & Flash9b.ocx in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash folder. I decided to try unregistering the Flash8b.ocx & registering the Flash9b.ocx. Once I did that and restarted IE YouTube worked again.

Steps taken:
- Opened a Command Window (Start Menu > Run.. > Type "cmd" without the quotes and click the OK button.
- Typed the following commands in the Command Window:
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cd C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
regsvr32 /u Flash8b.ocx
regsvr32 Flash9b.ocx
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Closed all Internet Explorer Windows
Opened Internet Explorer and went to YouTube. Videos worked!

Hope this helps.

quote:

Originally posted by: Newsgroup User
for a start, most of those should be in the macromed/flash folder inside
system 32

and you shouldn't have so many different flash ocx's there

that's probably why its getting confused.

try uninstalling, rebooting, killing off any *flash*.ocx on you PC,
rebooting, and then installing again.

it looks like your pc is screwed with too many flash ocx's living there ..
no wonder it doesn't know what its got and what it doesn't.

> In my Windows System 32 I have:
> Flash8a.ocx
> Flash9b.ocx
> flash.ocx
> FlashAuthor.cfg
> FlashUtil9b
> UninstFl
--
Jeckyl

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Anonymous

In my Windows System 32 I have:
Flash8a.ocx
Flash9b.ocx
flash.ocx
FlashAuthor.cfg
FlashUtil9b
UninstFl

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