Is Anyone Else Sick and Tired of Flash Player 10 Not Installing?

I AM AN ATTORNEY, I AM AT THE POINT WHERE I HAVE NO HAIR LEFT TO PULL  OUT...MY NERVES ARE SHOT, I AM ALMOST TO THE POINT OF TAKING A SLEDGE  HAMMER TO MY PC,  ADOBLE FLASH IS THE MOST FUCKED UP CRAPED OUT  WORTHLESS PEICE OF CHIT ON THE

PLANET, AND IM TIRED OF WASTING  PUCKNG HOURS AND HOURS TRYING TO GET THIS PIECE OF CHIT TO WORK  !!!!!!!!!!!!

  ADOBE IM GONG TO GET 2 MILLION COMPUTER  USERS WHO ARE ALSO FED UP WITH YOUR BUSTED PEICE OF CRAAPP SOFTWARE

AND  WE ARE GOING TO LITIGATE YOUR AZZS DOWN TO DIRT !!!!!!    WHEN WE GET  THRU WITH YOU, WE WILL CREATE A BLACK HOLE IN YOUR BOTTOM LINE THAT WILL  MAKE ANYTHING IN OUTTERSPACE PALE IN COMPAIRISON, IT WILL TAKE 3 CHECKS  TO WRITE OUT ALL THE ZEROS FOR REMEDY AND SETTLEMENT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    WE ARE GOING TO SUE YOUR WORTHLESS AZZSES DOWN TO DIRT  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ENOUGH OF THIS SSHIT  IS ENOUGH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   WE ARE BEYOND FED UP, AND  ARE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

   EVERYONE OF YOU HERE MAY ENJOIN IN THE LAWSUIT AS SOON AS WE GET IT  ASSEMBLED AND FILED .....

ADOBE WE ARE GOING TO SHOVE  IT UP YOUR AZZ AND BREAK IT OFF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND  IF I WERE THE LAZY, WORTHLESS.. HALF AZZ DO NOTHINGS AT SOME FACILITY  FOR ADOBLE WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RELEASING THIS WORTHLESS PIECE OF  CRAAP ON THE WORLD,  ID BE FEARFULL FOR MY JOBS... BECAUSE GIANT PILES  OF CRAAP ONLY ROLL DOWNHILL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forget the work-arounds!  Just uninstall Flash Player and install Shockwave Player!  This did the trick for me!  No more missing items on webpages and no more prompts to download Flash Player, which means no more freezes on the install.  Our IT guy said Shockwave Player is the newest version of FlashPlayer.

I got mine to work.  Here's how:  http://forums.adobe.com/message/2069313

Vista?  Don't care.

IE7?  Probably still valid to try this.

Your mileage may vary.

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...and here is what I did. Again, Im on a macbook pro 2008 edition on 10.5.7.

First of all, I tried everything simple I could think of. I have been having issues updating my CS3 Suite from day 1 (the updater would fail every time) and was told I needed to uninstall the Creative Suite and reinstall it on another profile to troubleshoot it. That would mean losing my Dreamweaver files, so I just put up with it.

I tried:

• Quitting my browsers, reopening, downloading Flashplayer 10 and installing. Installer ran, Suceeded, and erased any player I had period. FAIL
• Uninstalling the flash player, reinstalling Flashplayer 10, Installer ran, Suceeded, still no player. FAIL
• Uninstalling the current flash player, reinstalling Flashplayer 9, Installer ran, Suceeded, reinstalled Flashplayer 10, removed all Flash player versions from browser detection . FAIL

I decided to stay with FP9 so that I could view ANY flash content until I got this fixed.

I had heard something about Filevault compatibility issues with the Adobe software. To me, this was stupid that this would exist and from what I read more people were getting flamed for USING the available Filevault options than getting real answers as why there was a conflict between the two.

"Your answer for the issue with Adobe and FIlevault? Don't use Filevault..." What kind of response is that, people? I feel the same about IE for you Windose users... you should all convert to Firefox or Mozilla, but is that the answer to why something should supposedly work on your computer and it is refusing to do so? Not really...

So, seeing that I am no longer in the need for the physical increase in security via File vault and really wanting to be able to not only view those little movies embedded in my Facebook posts but also try updating my creative suite3, I tried turning off Filevault.

"FAILED: You must have at least 37.7GB available Disk space to Disable FileVault"

What?! What gives... why would they need you to have that much space to do a disable? Either way- I have 21gb available at the time. Time to archive some photos and movies.

I dumped everything in my pictures folder but my iPhoto files and all of my movies onto a backup drive and fixed permissions freeing up a total of 53gb, which were all out of whack. I restarted my computer and then proceeded to turn-off file vault which took a few hours.

Today, as I started up Adobe PhotoshopCS3- my updater ran, as it has, and prompted me to update. I figured- What the heck, I'll try- and sure enough.. the updater.... worked. I now had the complete updated version of CS3... but did my flashplayer update also? Nope. Still Flashplayer 9.

I ran the updater, and voila- I now a the owner of a shiney new working Flashplayer 10.

So.... if you are on a Mac like meeeeeeee... you might try turning OFF filevault also if it is enabled. If you dont have it on, Maybe free up at least 50gb and see if that helps.

Otherwise, we're singled out in this array of "HAHA! You LOSE!" in the world of updaters from Adobe. Good luck... and good night.

-Jyn

I managed to do this on both my computers after trying only a few times.  It was frustrating, until I found this forum.  In the end, I followed instructions I found here, in an answer to someone; and they worked.  What made the difference was this:

1) Instead of just uninstalling Adobe Flash player myself, using the Windows uninstaller, I used the precise link I found here.  It did a much more thorough job.  I checked "details" when it was finished and discovered, to my amazement, that there had still been bits and pieces of old Adobe players in my files.  Now I was really rid of former versions.  That link is essential.  I suspect also that if there have been unsuccessful attempts at installation, it is necesary to start all over and, once more, to run Adobe's own uninstaller.  This should clean out debris from previous unsuccessful tries.

2) I gave up trying to install from AOL, which I usually use, and which absolutely will not work for this purpose. Instead, I  began from Windows IE 8, which I had just installed.  The little "Active X" control didn't respond at first but finally did, enabling me to continue.  (It is not a yellow band on my computer and never was; and at first, it didn't seem to respond; but then it did, and uttered its little "beep" noise and flashed to announce its presence.)

3)  After that, an installation actually worked -- but only after I had done a cold start (not a restart).

An afterthought:  It is still true that I can't make the Flash player work on AOL until I have first brought up IE 8 and run the Flash player there.  It seems that it has to initialize on IE.

Maybe I was just lucky, but my installation did finally all work, even though my equipment is old and creaky -- Windows XP on a 2003 desktop, and Windows XP on a 2005 laptop.

In general, I believe that Adobe could have made this installation much easier by including with the Installation program their own Üninstall program, which should have run automatically first.  I don't see why they didn't.  This seems to me a bit slipshod, as though someone wanted to get the new version "out the door" under some sort of deadline.  Everything should have been transparent for the non-technical user.

I  have tried  numerous times already to install flash player in my laptop using firefox and followed all the steps like checking the browsers compatibilty and turning off the pop up blocker etc... but still it cannot be installed , why is it so? i need it to run videos on youtube.

I had this issue LAST year, also.

Im on a Macintel OS Version 10.5.7

Flash Player 10 wont install on my system, and when it tries- it tosses out the previouse version so I have no plugin working.

The latest flash player that works is Flashplayer 9 and even after uninstalling it, restarting my computer- and reinstalling it- FP10 WILL NOT WORK.

Not only that, but my Adobe Creative Suite has never been able to update... EVER. It fails every time, and Im afraid to re-install it and lose my Dreamweaver information.

I agree, I'm running Vista Ultimate w/ IE 8.  Won't do anything.  I try using the link above and it looks like it was loading.  Then an error comes up "Internet Explorer cannot download install_flash_player_ax.exe from fpdownload.adobe.com.  Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site.  The requested site iseither unavailable or cannot be found.  Please try again later."

My laptop win XP and IE 7 can and have downloaded the Flash 10 with no issues.  I think it is either IE 8 or Vista not compatible with Flash Player 10.  Maybe someone can figure it out.  Does anyone know how to uninstall IE 8?  I just want to downgrade and go back to IE 7 for the sake of flash player working.  anyone?

Thanks

I have a Mac G5 running OS 10.3.9 and even though its an older model still works great - except that Adobe Flashplayer will not even download! It's really frustrating that you take good care of your equipment to keep it out of landfills..... yet the software giants want you to upgrade every year or so!

Yes.  I agree with everything you said.  I finally gave up about 3-4 wks ago and installed Flash Player in Firefox so I could actually access some sites I needed to access.  I tried again last week, again wasting several hours.  I just logged on to the forum hoping someone might have come up with something I hadn't already tried.  I don't know if it is an incompatibility with IE8 or Windows XP SP3.  I have Adobe CS4 Master Collection.  All my software is legal.  Like you I am absolutely sick of it.  Adobe needs to pull their finger out and FIX this or remove Flash Player 10.