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Anonymous
July 1, 2008
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Flash Player

  • July 1, 2008
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For the past two days I have been trying to down load the free Flash Player to my computer. I go through the process, it tells me it has successfully downloaded, but I neer get the little movie that the download says I will get. When we try to open www.nick.com and other sites, it says that we need to download Flash Player. We have done this over and over. Everything worked fine last week but not now. I uninstalled a previous version as I was told to do in the troubleshooting section and changed settings as instructed. Please help
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    I discovered, by searching other forums for help, that my using "Add/Remove" programs wasn't a sufficient way to remove the old version of Flash Player. At least not on my system. I was sent to the following URL, where I uninstalled Flash Player, then finally was able to sucessfully reinstall, and now it works:
    http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe

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    Anonymous
    July 8, 2008
    Has anyone figured this out or gotten an answer that works? I am going out of my mind. Everyone is describing exactly what is happening to me. I do not have Vista at work or at home, but both systems are doing the exact same thing. I'm really frustrated.
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    Anonymous
    July 8, 2008
    THE ANSWER ON THIS THREAD WORKS!!! The missing link is that you have to REBOOT after you run the uninstall. Mine is working!!! Amen!
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    REZ7137
    Participant
    July 8, 2008
    Finally I got the stupid flashplayer problem fixed. Follow the instructions at the top of this forum. Unistall the installer and then go back to the install page, i know that this sound familiar, and reinstall this program again. Hope this helps.
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    marielle5889
    Participant
    July 8, 2008
    quote:
    Originally posted by: REZ7137
    Finally I got the stupid flashplayer problem fixed. Follow the instructions at the top of this forum. Unistall the installer and then go back to the install page, i know that this sound familiar, and reinstall this program again. Hope this helps.


    THANKS it works lol im as happy as i can be right now
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    katemma
    Participating Frequently
    July 9, 2008
    I have been able to get flash installed.

    In the thread above download the unistaller and the installer.
    Uninstall and then reboot.
    Don't just double click the installer extract the .exe file and right click on it and choose run as. Choose to run as the administrator it may ask for a password enter it. It will install. Now reboot.
    This worked for me and I have done everything include f&*k around with my registry.
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    marielle5889
    Participant
    July 8, 2008
    Can somebody help me ?
    I cannot watch video's n you tube. He says that i have turned off my java. Or that I have to download new flash player... wich i did.. but its still not working. :S and i dont get it. Maybe flash isnt working ? or maybe i did something wrong while downloading it ?
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    Anonymous
    July 8, 2008
    this information is useful for me,thank you.
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    omeomy4
    Participant
    July 7, 2008
    I don't know what happened. I had gone to another site looking at a different program to open this same type of file. It was called IrfanView on web site www.irfanview.com. I downloaded it but it still didn't seem to be working. When I tried to view the earlier file that had been sent to me, all of a sudden the Adobe installer appeared and Adobe FlashPlayer was downloaded and I could view the file. I checked one other file I had been trying to view and I was also able to view it too. Earlier I had also downloaded an older version (flashplayer9r115_win) of Adobe at a site called download.oldapps.
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    chickenwirre
    Participant
    July 7, 2008
    I am have the same problem. I've been trying to download for a while now, but it still wont work. The movie wont popup when i download, but a little box that says "installation complete" with some numbers does. I see a little red F popup where the movie is supposed to be, but then a yellow bar like the ActiveX bar pops up and it say that it wont let the site use ActiveX in an unsafe way, and the Red F goes away. I found something to fix the problem, but what the thing told me to do doesn't work. I'm using windows XP
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    Anonymous
    July 7, 2008
    I have been working this issue for my XP for over a week with no results. All previous suggestions have been tried and retried. Hope we get some help soon!
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    davrcar
    Participant
    July 5, 2008
    I am running Windows XP and cannot load Flash Player? Tried everything posted here? Adobe is no help? You would think they would care that you can't run Flash?
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    Top11Eagle16
    Participant
    July 4, 2008
    okay, i have an XP
    i USED to use youtube for guitar and stuff like that
    and then about 2 months ago it was saying i have to install the "latest" flashplayer...
    so i click the link to take me to the installer
    and it doesn't bring up the yellow bar at the top or anything???
    like all it does is a box comes up saying troubleshooting 19166...
    and i so know what that is???
    i've tried EVERYTHING to try to get it to download for months now
    anything from security as high as it can go to no security at all and still the same problem?
    idk if my computer has viruses or what??
    but i really need to know how to get the flashplayer back
    ( i tried the "answer" to this and it made no difference )
    someone please answer my players =P
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    sickest4u
    Participating Frequently
    July 4, 2008
    Man theres so many problems with vista its not even funny
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    Anonymous
    July 4, 2008
    I too am having the same problem! I've been trying for three days and no luck i have tried ALL suggestions. Even tried the Beta. Someone please help!
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