Flash 9 Installed but not detected

Report · Oct 30, 2006

I have installed flash player 9 on my computer. according to adobe's website it's installed however any time i go to a website requiring flash it says that i need to download flash player 9. i have tried to uninstall and reinstall several times yet the same symptoms occur. the weird thing is that there are two user accounts on my computer. one of them has no problem with flash and the other account does. i've tried setting up a new user account to see if flash would work on another account and it will not. all of the user accounts have administrator rights. i am really confused at this point and don't know what else to try. i am also running ie7 and this problem didn't start until i downloaded ie7. it seems that there are a lot of people out there having trouble with flash 9 and ie7. i have tried to email adobe about the issue but i have not heard back from them. does anyone have any suggestions. thanks for your help in advance!

Report · Jun 23, 2008

This problem has been driving me nuts for months, but I've been using FireFox to get around it. Just don't get it... I'll try the method suggested to see if it makes a difference.

Thanks!

OIBO
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Report · Jun 23, 2008

Aaaack... any ideas how else this can be fixed? I've tried the steps as previously suggested, but had no luck. Help!

Ths,

OIBO
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Report · Jun 23, 2008

The thing that finally worked for me was Resetting Internet Explorer settings.

Tools/Advanced/ Reset.

Report · May 18, 2008

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Report · May 18, 2008

quote:

Originally posted by: daMacroGuy
Even if you don't have Shockwave Player installed, run the uninstaller anyway; it won't hurt. In my case, runniing just the Flash Player Uninstaller didn't work. I had to perform both steps, which leads me to believe that the two products were conflicting. I don't know what versions I had of each or if Shockwave was even installed, but I'm good to go now.

First of all, thank you - I have searched everywhere and this finally did it. Second, FYI, I ran a few tests after getting Flash running. I tried to reinstall Shockwave after installing Flash and it did indeed disable IE7's ability to properly detect Flash 9 on sites like YouTube and Sky.com. So I repeated the steps (uninstall Flash, restart, uninstall SW, restart, install Flash) and lo and behold, Flash worked again. So I would not recommend trying to run both on the same system.

Cheers,
LL

Report · Feb 09, 2008

I also have this problem. What is the solution?

Report · Feb 09, 2008

I posted this on another thread in this forum...but here it is for this thread (probably bad forum etiquette, but there's alot of folks looking for an answer here).

I am running XP SP2 and IE6.

Here's the solution as posted by a previous poster, I think for a Vista user that was experiencing the same behavior from Flash:

1. Go to WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash and find uninstaller
2. After you run uninstaller the "Flash" folder should disappear itself...if not, you manually delete it
3. Install the flash player again with the file you download from adobe http://www.adobe.com/go/full_flashplayer_win_msi

I followed step 1, but the only uninstaller i could find in the Flash folder was an unistaller for the Flash9.ocx, so i ran it. It however did NOT delete the Flash folder itself, so i did what step 2 recommended and deleted the Flash folder altogether. Then I went to Adobe's site at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash and downloaded the Flash9 installer, ran it, and bingo! Flash works again.

Karl
"Never eschew the obvious just because it is obvious!"

Report · Feb 12, 2008

It seems like this problem started for me when Vista installed last month's updates.

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Report · Mar 01, 2008

this happen to me at the last security update.

Report · Mar 04, 2008

Unfortunetly vista is very unstable and has many bugs and errors.I don't see why xp can't please your needs until the software becomes more compatible with vista.

Report · Mar 05, 2008

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Report · Mar 06, 2008

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Report · Mar 14, 2008

Good solutions!

Report · Mar 14, 2008

Vista is the pits. I wish i could reinstall XP but all the drivers are updated etc. Its gonna be a looong job

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Report · Mar 14, 2008