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solfrann
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January 2, 2016
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Flash and Windows 10

  • January 2, 2016
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I have windows10 and use IE for web browsing.  Since getting this computer I have had a problem with flash player not working.

I have gone through all the troubleshooting steps and verified that I have everything setup correctly, but still not working.  I have noticed that it says in Control Panel that I have Flash Player 32 while my system is 64bit, but I'm not sure that would do it.  I have installed Webroot, but I have tried disabling that and it didn't fix anything.

Since it comes with Windows, i'm not sure I can do anything about uninstalling/reinstalling.

Please help!

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    Carm01
    Carm01
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    January 3, 2016

    In Windows 8.X and Windows 10 (all variants) Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer and EDGE Browser is exclusively handled by Windows Updates period, you cannot uninstall, re-install, and install this be any means with any utility on the Adobe website. DO NOT try to make any changes to the Operating System files in these versions of Windows and the Integrated Flash Player PERIOD. I cannot stress this anymore.

    Any troubleshooting on the above mentioned OS and browsers is going to be a Windows related. IF you need to upgrade your Integrated Windows 8.X and Windows 10 Flash player you MUST use windows updates to take and apply the updates as they are pushed out by Microsoft. There is no easy exceptions to this rules generally speaking.

    Also there are 3 type of flash player plugins, and they all have to be installed separately. It is important to note that you can have different version numbers here as well because not all browsers and applications use the same plugin remember this. Also just because you went and installed Adobe Flash player in Internet Explorer DOES NOT mean it will be updated or installed for Firefox and vise-versa.

         i) NPAPI - This is for Firefox most notably.

         ii) ActiveX - Internet Explorer/EDGE

         iii) PPAPI - Opera browser

    Flash Player Issues | Windows 10 | Internet Explorer

    Best Regards

    jeromiec83223024
    jeromiec83223024
    Inspiring
    January 8, 2016

    First, confirm that ActiveX Filtering is configured to allow Flash content:

    https://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968

    Internet Explorer 11 and Edge introduce a number of changes both to how the browser identifies itself to remote web servers, and to how it processes JavaScript intended to target behaviors specific to Internet Explorer. Unfortunately, this means that content on some sites will be broken until the content provider changes their site to conform to the new development approach required by modern versions of IE.

    You can try to work around these issues by using Compatibility View:

    http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11

    If that is too inconvenient, using Google Chrome may be a preferable alternative.

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