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March 28, 2014
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Flash player is installed (acording to programs & features) but does not work!

  • March 28, 2014
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I called Adobe, techsupport had me install latest version.

I installed the latest version 12.0.77.

Does not work.

Flash player manager says plug-in not installed.

I have read thru alot and I do not get it.

I have Windows 7 Ultimate, IE11.

There must be an answer.

Does anyone know the answer?

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C_F_McBlob
Inspiring
March 28, 2014

My Win 7 Ultimate machine (64bit) has IE11 and it "doesn't work for nothin'!" Here's why:

"User-Agent Strings"

That doesn't mean a lot, I'm sure, but it's the root of your problems, and Flash Player has nothing to do with it.

Microsoft "rewrote" the User-Agent Strings for the abomination they call their latest and greatest browser. User-Agent Strings are what websites use to identify the browser you're using and provide the proper content for it's browser engine, like ActiveX stuff, and Flash or HTML5 video. Thanks to the geniuses in Redmond, WA, the User-Agent Strings for IE11 (which has a Trident engine), ID it as either "Gecko" (Firefox) or "Webkit" (Chrome). Problem is: when the site the directs to the content for one of these two engines, the Trident engine in IE can't intepret it and the site then sees IE as an "unidentified" browser.

The problem with an unidentified browser is that the plug-ins in that browser aren't recognized either, so even though you're up to date, it says you need the latest Flash Player when you use IE11. YouTube... has converted to HTML5 video so if it doesn't detect Flash Player, it can display HTML5 (MP4) video which requires no plug-in to play. Facebook can't do that, because HTML5 doesn't apply to games... only video.

Microsoft has no plans to "fix" the mess they've created because they think it's a great idea to block you out of the websites you visit.

They recommend using "Compatibility View" and pretending that you're using an older verison of IE... Problem with that is that it's seen limited success, and you have to enable it for EVERY page that has problems... individually.

I'm not big on "pretending" so I recommend actually using another browser.

Firefox (from Mozilla)

Opera (from Opera)

Safari (from Apple)

Chrome (from Google)

ANY of those will work where IE11 won't, with the Flash Player Plug-in (For all other browsers), and Chrome doesn't even need that because it has its own Flash Player plugin built in.

aedboAuthor
Participant
March 29, 2014

thanks for options of the other browsers

I reset default settings and now apears to be working correctly

thank you

Devendra Kumar
Participating Frequently
March 28, 2014

Hi,

Please check these two links,

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

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/885448

Hope it will work.

Regards,

Devendra

aedboAuthor
Participant
March 29, 2014

I reset default settings and now flash player apears to be working correctly.

thank you.