continuous download of Flash Player

Okay, I 'm not understanding what all that has to do with the fact that with Flash 6 version I was able to view everything everywhere anytime and never had a problem. But since sites are now setting up their videos and Flash to only play with the "latest version" of Flash, then when one downloads the latest version, one also loses being able to see any videos or Flash pages.

So take YouTube.com, for example, I get this: You either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest flash player.

So, JS is NOT turned off. So now let me go download AGAIN. Takes me to the Adobe site. The image on their page is not moving, so according to the page I do NOT have Flash installed. So I download it. For the gazillionith time I get this message: Version 9,0,28,0 installed successfully and I see the Flash moving on their page.

Reboot.

I go back to YouTube.com As soon as I enter the page I get this:
Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest flash player.

So see? it's perpetual!

Ok .. so after you uninstall, does it still think you have Flash Player 7
installed?

On your PC, what is the "it" that tells you you have Flash Player 9
installed? What site is it that requires flash that doesn't think you have
it? Where is your flash player ocx? Do a search on your whole hard disk
for "*flash*.ocx" and see what you find.

On my Pc I find:
I have Flash9b.ocx in c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash (that the one
registered and being used)
I also have in C:\i386 a Flash.ocx (6r79), Flash8.ocx (8r2) and swflash.ocx
(4r7)
I have Flask9.ocx (9r16) in my KewBee Plugin Switch area (I haven't used
that program much yet though .. it might be worth your while trying as it
swaps different flash version ocx's in and out .. it might fix your
problems)

In my registry in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{1171A62F-05D2-11D1-83FC-00A0C9089C5A}, the
InpocServer32 key is set for
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9b.ocx"
Also in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}the
InpocServer32 key is set for
"C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash9b.ocx"
there a couple of other places that specify the flash ocx that are all
looking at the correct file.

What is the situation on your PC?
--
Jeckyl

Wow -- I'm just going to SECOND THAT MOTION!!! I totally agree and have done everything you have had to do, all to no avail.

Here all the time I thought it was just ME and MY computer and MY Flash, come to find out it's more widespread than we realized -- and that Adobe cares to address.

So, here it is. I have had this problem on my Mac Powerbook and also on my brand new Dell laptop.

On my Mac in particular, it's pure insanity. I'm asked to install the latest version, so I do. Go back to the site, it still says I have to install it. I check the half-assed support from Adobe. Even though I downloaded and installed version 9, it says I have version 7 installed. I install again. Tells me the install was successful, but still says version 7. I download the Flash Player uninstaller, run it, reboot my machine, and install version 9. Adobe's site tells me yet again that I have version 7. I have installed this about 20 times, rebooted, uninstalled, all of it, over and over.

On my PC, I installed it, and it tells me I have Flash Player 9 installed. Okay, but then when I go to a site that requires Flash Player, it tells me I need it and I don't have it installed. Same process, over and over.

Fact of the matter is, I know my way around computers and software. I have poured over all of Adobe's documentation and done everything that they've recommended over and over. The real truth is that it's not the users, though Adobe might just blow it off that way, because

ADOBE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT YOU. THEY ARE A CORPORATION THAT WILL GLADLY TAKE YOUR MONEY, BUT DON'T FIND THEMSELVES RESPONSIBLE TO ENSURE QUALITY.

Ever since they bought out Macromedia, it's been a sad state of affairs. I too hope that someone finds this thread and says to themselves "Hey, maybe we should find a solution for these people, since we screwed up." However, this is not a new issue, so apparently they just don't really care.

How do you update java to 5.0??

So like I uninstalled Real Player a while back. So what's the volume have to do with flash sites continually asking one to upload the newest version of Flash and then the repeat cycle..............???

What worked? What did you do? What does it have to do with Real Player's volumne? I don't have Real Player on my computer.

YAY! IT WORKS, IT REALLY REALLY WORKS!!

Ok, wow.. what a strange cure for the itch. After a whole lot of truely unneeded trouble I finally found that the solution was obvious. The last thing I remember doing was downloading an episode of Outlaw Star and after it told me that it wouldnt play for some stupid reason is when all the suffering began. The problem (i guess) was that RealPlayer's volume was lowered to nothing, and since I dont even use my RealPlayer (at all) was why I never thought of checking there. I doubt this will be your issue as well, but I wish for you the best of luck... If you'd still like to just talk to me you can almost always find me on msn or yahoo messenger. My e-mail is shinobi_salem@yahoo.com, maybe I'll see you some other time.. later.

lmfao, wouldnt that be a grand wish to ask of daddy? ^-^ but i for surely hope that it shouldnt take that long.. and just when youtube was starting to get addictive. i dont have the kinda money to spend at anymore computer hangouts..! *tears*

Yeah.......I wish someone could figure it out. Maybe someday, huh? Maybe we should ask Santa Claus. Christmas is upon us SMILE