Flash content not displaying in IE for only some users - free lunch to whomever can fix!

I have same problem where flash plugin is working but content is not displayed and when i right click on content it say "Movie not loaded..." and "About Adobe Flash Player 19...". Other thing is that when i go to FaceBook and open game it works fine (and yes it uses flash) but most of other pages (and some other FaceBook games) that use flash are bugging out or not loading... Can someone help please?

Hi, i am battlingv with this very issue, have uploaded and published webpage a million different ways thinking it was the coding or the flash movie, it all works fine in google chrome, firwfox etc. but not in IE (frustrating!!!) - so if i understabnd correctly it is a problem with IE settings?

please assist, did not quite understand what needs to be done to resolve this issue?

thank you,

Didn't need to buy anybody lunch, because we came across the "fix"

in-house.  But, thought I'd post the resolution here in case anyone

else stumbles across this "stumper" looking for an answer:

Our Internet filtering device (made by M86 Security) has a global

setting called "Pattern Blocking" which, according to the documentation

I finally found after the fact, is supposed to help block "the usage of

Proxy clients such as Google Web Accelerator and various proxy

pattern types".  Apparently, it blocks more than just that because

that was what was stopping the Flash content.  The setting is supposed

to be disabled by default, so it still remains unanswered how it got

turned on.  But, the probe (real-time log) showed entries in the Flash

VIdeo categorey with a pattern name including "Flash_IEProt".  So,

it seems to pick on only Internet Explorer (i.e. ActiveX), but not for all

users and not consistently. (That's why FireFox, Chrome, etc were not

affected.  In fact, I could get the Flash content to display in IE if I

went into the source code and hard-coded the URL to the MOVIE=

parameter).

That useless option was disabled like it should have been, and

all was well with Flash afterward.

Discovered another thing yesterday, which really only serves to confuse me further

instead of narrowing things down:

I had to get the 'instructor' PC set up in one of our training rooms, and logged on with

one of our master Domain Admin accounts.  This account has been able to view

Flash content in IE just fine on all the PCs where Flash wasn't working for my

account (which is also a member of Domain Admins).  Well, on the instructor PC,

IE/Flash would not work for the master account.

This does seem to indicate that Group Policy is not to blame, since it can't be a

machine-based policy (since some accounts work on a computer where mine doesn't)

and it can't be a user-based policy (since, like with the master account, it might

work just fine on one computer but not on another).  I'm starting to think that this is

just simply a 'bug' of some sort with Adobe Flash Player, at least the IE ActiveX

version.  Frustrating thing is that I haven't come up with a fix or work-around that

works (aside from using Firefox instead).

Okay, let's have another look at this.

First of all, please don't compare Firefox Flash to Internet Explorer Flash. Those two use completely different methods of installing.

Then, you say "Flash does not display for several users". That mean, you logon to a computer, and you cannot display Flash, while another user logs on the same computer and can display Flash in IE.

If that's so that leaves only a few possible errorsources.

I would say either one of you applies:

1. You use Group Policys on certain users. One of them produces this Flash problem.

How to check that? Easy: Take a domain user with working flash and do a "gpresult" in the DOS-Box. Check which GPOs are applied to the uers.

Now logon your user, verify that Flash is not working and do the same. Check again which Group Policys are applied to your user account.

Compare them... if you see a difference, check these differing policys.

2. You use Server-Stored-Profiles:

If your userprofile is stored on the Server, no matter where you are logged on. The Application Data and so on will be same on all computers. Same as your internet settings and stuff. If you have ever done anything in the past, that kills flash for certain users (by accident), then this mistake is stored on the server and will occure on all Computers you are logged on.

How to check: Delete your server stored profile (or rename it) and logon to a computer, see if flash is working.

Or: Logon to a computer using a local account, no domain account.

3. You have a faulty default user profile:

Some companys have copied a "Default User" folder in their netlogon. If this is there, and you logon to a domain computer the very first time, it uses the server stored default user profile instead of the local one.

How to check:

Go to \\%logonserver%\NETLOGON and check if there is a Default User folder.

If its there, rename it (or let a domain admin do it, if you are not the one).

Now logon to a computer where you've never logged on before, and check if flash is working.

4. a mix of these:

Like... if you setup your PCs via Image, the faulty default user profile could be local. But if you use server stored profiles, it does not happen to every user, just new ones, or users where you recreate the user profile.

Further possible solutions:

- Delete: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer

- Delete: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Current Version\Internet Settings

- Delete: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Internet Explorer

- Delete: %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Application Data\Internet Explorer

Reboot

these should be rebuilt and IE should be fully default configuration

Try the following (assuming you have Adobe Flash Player installed):

• Restart your computer

• Open Internet Options (located in the Control Panel)

• Click on the Advanced tab

• Click on the Reset button, place a check next to Delete Personal Settings and then click Reset.

• Launch IInternet Explorer and Adobe Flash Player should now be properly enabled.

I have a similar problem.  My company has upgraded from XP and IE6 to Windows 7,64bit, IE8 - and a previously functioning process map that I developed in Flash now has one mysterious issue.. there are 7 buttons on  the first level of the map - and the final button has simply stopped working for about a handful of users.  I have learned to double save and my work since Windows 7 causes the occasional .fla to become corrupt - but this is a new pest.  Any ideas are welcome!

Hello Bookem_Danno,

we've been deploying Flash (the redistributable) also in our company and for some customers via a software deployment tool and experienced several different problems through the flash Verisons. By the time we've developed a update process which works out quite nice since a few flash versions

1. Ensure that all Internet Explorers are closed

2. Registry Fix: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/494/cpsid_49419.html

3. Run Flash Player uninstaller: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html (supports silent / unattended switches)

4. Install Flash Player redistributional

Thats what we did in our installation script for every flash player upgrade.

This works for 100% of all 2500 Windows XP and Windows 7 PCs (IE7 and IE8) in our company in the meanwhile.

I can only remember a problem in the past where we experienced problems with Flash being installed and showed active but not showing any flash content. That happened to us when we either slipstreamed Internet Explorer patches / versions into our installation sources OR using images prepared with Sysprep where we a) Updated the Internet Explorer (Patches and Versions above the original Version provided with the OS) b) Flash Player was preinstalled.

The onliest thing that helped in that case was to fully reinstall / repair the broweser and reinstall Flash Player (using the above update process).

Hope that helps

I had this problem for months. On my Vista operating system, HP desk top, I could not get the Adobe Flash player to install. The program would not appear on the list of installed programs, even though the Adobe download page would tell me I had downloaded it correctly. It would, however, appear on the Programs and Features page and I could uninstall it, which I did countless times. Here's what solved the problem for me:

1) Open Internet Explorer

2) Click on  "Tools"

3) Click on "Manage Add-ons"

4) Under "Adobe Systems Incorporated" find "Shockwave Flash Object"

5) If this is your problem the status will show "Disabled"

6) Highlight the entire entry and click on "Enable" at the bottom of the page.

7) Status should now read "Enabled"

8) Uninstall the flash player, if it is currently installed.

9) Download Flash Player normally.

10) This procedure worked for me, and I didn't even have to restart the computer.

Good luck 

Any chance you could clear your browser cache, then load this page under an HTTP monitor (like Charles or Microsoft's Network Monitor) to see what happens?

Thanks,

Chris