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February 11, 2010
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Flash Player And adobe reader not working and downloads don't work

  • February 11, 2010
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I have IE 8 and windows vista and everything has worked great for 2 years until 2 or 3 weeks ago.  At that time my flash player stopped working so I could no longer get videos , streaming stock quotes, weather map loops, etc and when I go to websites that use Flash (i.e. Piaaz Hut) it wouldn't work.  Also, at that same time my adobe reader stopped working properly and I can't view mosy PDF Files.

I have gone through many of the posts on this forum and have tried many of the fixes, but none have work for me.

I tried to uninstall the Flash Player, but I didn't use the Adobe uninstaller.

Whenever I try to update or load the Flash player, a dialog box with the globe tossing papers to the folder appears and then after a few seconds I get the the message that IE can't install_flash_player_ax.exe from fp download.adobe.com, and then a message that says IE was not able to open this internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found.

In control panel programs I have listed

Adobe AIR      no size

Adobe Flash Player 10 active X           no size

Adobe Reader 9.3     141mb

Macromedia Shockwave player      no size

In Tools i have the following add ons and they are all enabled

Shockwave Flash object 10.0.42.34

Adobe PDF Link Helper

Adobe PDF Reader

Macromedia Shockwave Active X Control 10.1

As I said I've already attempted a number of the fixes on this forum, but so far no luck.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what else I might try?

Thanks

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    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    February 12, 2010

    Let's ignore the Adobe Reader problem for now and only look at Flash Player.  It seems that FP is still installed, so I suggest to follow these steps:

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    bttiebenAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    February 12, 2010

    Thanks for your reply.

    IE won't let me download the uninstaller either.  I get a message similar to the messages I referenced in my original post.   First I get the dialog box with the globe tossing papers to the folder, then I get the Message that IE can't download the unistaller  from macromedia and that IE was not able to open this internet site.

    Anything else I can try?

    Thanks

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    February 14, 2010

    Thanks for your reply.

    I just tried both of these and they wouldn't download.

    Same thing happened where dialog box showing globe tossing papers to the folder for a few seconds, and then the warning message that IE can't download them.

    Maybe my problem is in IE

    Thanks again for trying.


    Can you download the installer on another computer, then use a memory stick or other device to copy it to the current computer?

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