Flash Player Does Not Work with IE8 and Windows XP

[Gast]

I am using Windows XP VR 5.1 with SP3. Flash Player does not function? So videos will not play that use Flash Player. The Adobe Support Site has been 000 Help because it is a free product. Microsoft says it is an Adobe problem. Finger pointing to the nth degree. I have loaded the latest version of Javascript and Flash Palyer.. Any ideas?

[isepiq]

I tried for days to get Flash to work in IE 8, then gave up. However, since I had fooled with by restricted zones sites trying to get flash to work, I decided I had better go to my programs that protect me from bad web sites & re-do them. One of those programs was Spyware Blaster. After re-doing the site list protection, I noticed there were some new options that I did not recall. One of the was under TOOLD, FLASH KILLER.  Sure enough, there was a check mark in the Flash Killer check box. I UNchecked that box, exited, then ran IE8 to the Adobe Web site & did the Flash Install for the hundredth time in the past couple of days.  It now WORKED!!!  Spyware Blaster says it sets a 'KILL BIT' to stop flash from actually installing into IE8 (or 7 or?) itself. My installs & uninstalls kept looking successful, but never were with this 'Kill Bit' set.  I am thinking that there may be other programs out there that set this "Kill Bit' for Flash Player, & maybe even some mailicious sites or programs that can do this? Hopefully, someone much smarter than me can maybe shed some more light on this. Hope this can be of some help to someone.

IMHO

isepiq