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February 25, 2007
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How I finally got Flash9 working and can use youtube

  • February 25, 2007
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After 2 weeks of extreme frustration trying absolutely everything and tearing out what little hair I had left I finally managed to get flash 9 working. What you need to do is run the downloadable adobe flash uninstaller and then go to the website below and download the IE "standalone" flash 9 installer. All will be ok after that, and you can finally view videos in youtube.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

link is to http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html
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    Participant
    March 23, 2007
    THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! You have no idea how much this relieved me when I found this!!!!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
    Participating Frequently
    March 21, 2007
    Quick question for you guys, there appears to be a couple of problems for this and Im trying to narrow it down. So far I've only come up with about 3 possible actual causes.

    #1 Wavemapper was uninstalled
    #2 Registry Key corrupt or preventing something (CC cleaner fixed this for me on two systems on two OS's, but some reason appears to have occured when I installed Firefox and its flavor of the Flash player)
    #3 Missing codecs (like DivX, fixed with K-Lite codec pack)

    Im thinking the standalone player may not use the same registry key or have the same problems as the ActiveX so the solution, but it doesnt make too much sense if Firefox has its own flash installer but the problem (for me at least) occured on both Firefox and IE once it started happening.

    Has anyone else seen any solid patterns to these problems?
    Participant
    March 21, 2007
    thank you so much!!! if i hadnt found your post i was gonna beat my head on the wall!!!
    Participant
    March 21, 2007
    Thanks for the help.!!
    Participant
    March 21, 2007
    Fan-bloody-tastic. Thank you SO much! That worked. Lord only knows how you found the right combo. Genius.
    Participant
    March 20, 2007
    thanks john
    March 14, 2007
    HELP!!! I've been trying all of these steps over and over and it is still not working. I updated my Java, I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash so many times. I've restarted my computer after each update, to no avail. Is there anything else I should be doing? This is driving me nuts!!!! --What an awful program---!!!!
    Participating Frequently
    March 16, 2007
    yes, it's certainly a nightmare, maybe macromedia put some secret nobble code in it when adobe took over. Well for your answer all I can suggest is after uninstalling flash and java, also uninstall IE7 then run crapcleaner, reinstall IE7 and then java, then flash. If all else fails maybe a system reinstall is the only answer.

    good luck
    Participant
    March 13, 2007
    Well, I did reinstall my Windows and now everything works fine. Only thing now that I can suspect is that maybe the problem was in registry. Anyway, this issue will stay mistery for me. God help us all with Microsoft !
    Participant
    March 12, 2007
    THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's working now.

    For those who couldn't get it to work after downloading the standalone, keep faith. Follow the java steps and keep restarting and it will be back soon. This is a hell of a problem and I don't know why it's affecting SO MANY PEOPLE.
    March 8, 2007
    I have tried over and over again to do what Johndiablo has said to no avail When I go to Youtube.com it says that I have javascript turned off or an older version of Macromedia flash player which I just downloaded the flash 9.....any more suggestions???