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June 23, 2006
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continuous download of Flash Player

  • 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
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    Anonymous
    December 8, 2006
    I have a Pentium 4 Sony Vaio OS is Windows XP Professional
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      Salem_Kurayami
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      December 8, 2006
      Yeah, *sighs* I wonder what I did to have this show up just now if its been a going on for monthes.. What sorta PC do you have? Im using an old Gateway Pentium 3 with Microsoft Windows Me. I wish I could stay and try to figure out this dilema of ours but I got to go to school soon.
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        Anonymous
        December 8, 2006
        "If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer."

        And what a fundamental error message! LOL Like we all don't know to REBOOT, except obviously we've all done that a gazillion times! ...along with the reinstall! Sheesh! ADOBE! are you even there? Macromedia used to solve all problems all the time. Adobe does nothing since they purchased Macromedia. I KNEW there would be less support once Macromedia sold to Adobe. We were all afraid of this and it has happened!
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          Anonymous
          December 8, 2006
          Well, hopefully someone will come to our rescue. So far Adobe is not doing that, that's for sure! So it's already been MONTHS, maybe we'll have to wait months more! Sure is frustrating and it's ridiculous that this issue cannot be solved.

          It would be really, REALLY nice to know WHY this is a continual problem and what we can do about it to remedy the situation, huh!
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            Salem_Kurayami
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            December 8, 2006
            I just made a slightly updated version of my post here in a thread in "Forum Feedback". And I understand what your saying, but now that we know whats wrong.. what do we do?
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              Anonymous
              December 8, 2006
              No, it's not your PC setup! I'm tired of hearing it's EVERYTHING BUT FLASH! IT IS FLASH!
              I have top of the line Sony Vaio computer system, AND I always used to play videos and flash and everything on them.

              When Flash changed to a different media player, it all started, but the problem is NOW all the web pages with Flash require a higher version of the player in order to view their pages, and so you can't view it on the old version 6, and you can't view it on the new version 7, 8, 9, 11 whatever, because of this glitch that is happening with the new version!!!

              I have had a computer GENIUS uninstall and REinstall my Flash and do everything possible to get it working, and he can't get it working!

              It's FLASH MEDIA PLAYER and there is a problem with it that Adobe doesn't CARE to address!!

              For me it's been going on for months! It's frustrating because only a few are having the problem, so the rest of the world (including Adobe) doesn't give a rat! As long as THEIR flash media is working!

              I have uninstalled properly through the web site (the uninstall site : http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157 and REinstalled and even uninstalled and reinstalled http://www.ahlrates.com/players/ Flash 6, but the problem, and I reiterate, is FLASH because most sites require a newer version than 6 to play their Flash, so consequently one is back to REinstalling the newer version, and REinstalling the newer version and REinstalling the newer version...........CONTINUOUSLY and yet never get to see the flash on the page. I only see the Flash on the Adobe page which by the way tells me I already have Flash 9 installed. NO DUH!
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              Anonymous
              December 8, 2006
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              TextI think it's just time for me to get a laptop. I just hope the money I put into that does not result in these problems...

              Personally, I don't think it's your computer. I ALWAYS used to run Flash Media Player and watch ALL video and ALL flash everywhere on the web. It all started with one of the updated versions, after 6.

              Even when I installed 6 again, I was able to see more video and Flash than I had seen before; however, most ALL sites now require a NEWER VERSION of Flash Media Player, so at that pont then you are back to REinstalling the higher version and then once again back to the PERPETUAL download! and Adobe site saying "version 9.0 is installed" or whatever and at that point you see the flash on the adobe site, but never see the flash on any other site, AND if you return to the Adobe site, it's back to NO FLASH can be seen! Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall, Reinstall, uninstall. Perpetual, continual, continuous, eternal download and never get to see the Flash on the web!
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                Salem_Kurayami
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                December 8, 2006
                im having a very similar problem and its totally pissing me off! i just dont understand what happened or why im having the problem. i get this exact message:

                "Explorer has caused an error in FLASH9B.OCX.
                Explorer will now close.

                If you continue to experience problems, try restarting your computer."

                ..w..t..f.. i've restarted the damn thing hella times and nothing changed. i even downloaded and uninstalled a whole bunch of other crap just to see if it would somehow help but it didnt! can someone please help me with this..?
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                Anonymous
                December 8, 2006
                P.S. It's not your being computer illiterate! It'S ADOBE FLASH!!! Isn't that good to know! SMILE :D
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                danceboogie8
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                December 8, 2006
                quote:
                Originally posted by: Pea-Jay
                P.S. It's not your being computer illiterate! It'S ADOBE FLASH!!! Isn't that good to know! SMILE :D


                Well that's good! I really wish this whole issue would be fixed already. I get that same message on youtube and downloading flash doesn't change anything. I can't take it anymore!! I don't know what to do? :(
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                danceboogie8
                Participant
                December 8, 2006
                And I think I just screwed up more...

                Now, I can't even get the games to show up on addictinggames.com. My brother is going to kill me!? Anyway I can get at least that portion back? I guess I shouldn't have uninstalled all the flash programs and then reinstalled them. I hate this!
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                Anonymous
                December 8, 2006
                Well, I wish someone who knows how to fix this permanently would find this thread. I have just asked so many people, and then I thought THIS forum would be the one place to find answers, and yet............still no answers. I have been doing this for MONTHS!

                I can't view YouTube either. I get this every time: Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest flash player.

                YEAH RIGHT! THE NEW VERSION SUCKS as bad as the old one! One can't play anything now without the new version -- but it does not work! And then every page one goes to it wants you to download the new version AGAIN. I even get the message on the Flash Player page that I already have it. REALLY!!! Could'a fooled me!

                Well, we can only hope that someone has this issue resolved and will find this thread.
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                Anonymous
                December 8, 2006
                I'm actually AGAIN having this issue. I hate this. And apparently Adobe doesn't give a rat that people are having these problems.

                Problem is, it seems okay with the version of 6, but then you go to a website that says you need a newer version to view the website, so you're back to downloading a newer version in order to view anything. So it's hopeless to have 6 because most flash sites now require higher versions.

                So I'm back to uninstalling, reinstalling, uninstalling, reinstalling, clicking on install flash player, being told I have version 9 installed, going back to a flash site and it says "install and update newer version of flash to view this site," so we do it all over again.

                I'm about ready to put my fist through my computer and hope it reaches ADOBE! But I'm a girl, so I don't use fists -- only think about it. LOL

                So I can't view video. Strangely enough, there was a day when I had NO PROBLEMS with Flash Video Player.

                What happened? They upgraded, web pages required the upgrade, and the upgrade SUCKS, so no one can view the web pages.

                Makes no sense to me at all!
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                danceboogie8
                Participant
                December 8, 2006
                And I thought that I was the only one... Guess, I'm really not going psycho. My newer version WMP doesn't work either (I can get the old, crappy version WMP 2 to work, though), ever since this whole flash thing (it started MONTHS ago). I don't know if they could be connected. I'm completely computer illiterate.

                But not being able to play videos on Youtube is killing me!

                Any help would be appreciated! :)
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