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Inspiring
August 11, 2015
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Unable to view Flash Player in Windows 10?

  • August 11, 2015
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Flash Player videos will not play. Microsoft says it is integrated into Microsoft edge. "use flash player" is "on" in advanced settings. Window opens stating that I might need to disable ActiveX in order for flash player to play. Unable to find a place in settings to disable ActiveX. Advice please?

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Correct answer wmlarry1938

Both Microsoft and Adobe test the embedded Flash Player in Edge extensively.  I'm not sure why it's not working in your specific case, but it's not an across-the-board problem.

Here's my generic advice, which usually works.

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.


Recent update from Windows update seems to have resolved my problem.

3 replies

melodyb88775507
Participant
September 4, 2015

Chris, I too upgraded to Windows 10 from Windows 7 and am having the same problem with MS Edge seeing the flash player when I want to play games!  I can use IE and Chrome to play the games but Edge keeps telling me I need to install the flash player even though I have "Enabled" the flash in Edge settings! If I ask to open the game in IE, it will work in IE!   I hope you all can find the problem with this!  Very frustrating

Inspiring
October 7, 2015

Chris, My original post on this problem was on August 11th. I have received numerous Windows Updates, but evidently nothing to fix the problem, as it still exists. Is there any new word on your end?

August 25, 2015

Chris, I find this article

http://www.howtogeek.com/179213/why-browser-plug-ins-are-going-away-and-whats-replacing-them/  ,

Is this information truth ?  If it is, what is the next step ?

chris.campbell
Legend
August 11, 2015

Hi,

Sorry about the instructions for ActiveX filtering, you can ignore that (and I'll get that page updated accordingly.)  I've seen a few reports about Edge not finding Flash Player, though I haven't been able to reproduce this myself.  Was this Windows 10 install an upgrade?  If so, what OS were you upgrading from?  Is this the default "home" install?  Is it 32 or 64 bit?  Finally, what language is the OS?

Thanks,

Chris

Inspiring
August 11, 2015

Thanks for the reply, Chris. I'll quit looking for a way to disable ActiveX. I downloaded the upgrade to Windows 10 on both home and office computers. Both were upgraded from Windows 7. Both are English 64 bit. Flash Player works fine on home computer, but not on office computer. The only difference I see is that the computer at home was running Windows 7 "Home", and the office computer was running Windows 7 "Pro". Please be gentle, I'm 77 years old. :-)

chris.campbell
Legend
August 11, 2015

Thanks for the answers, I'm going to bring this up today with Microsoft.  I'm curious, if you visit this page:

Flash Player Help

Then, click on the "..." menu in the upper right of the Edge browser.  A menu will appear, one of the options is "Open with Internet Explorer".  Select that, then once the pages loads again in IE, click the "Check Now" button.  Does Flash Player still report not being installed?