Flash Player Problem is frustrating and confusing...

Report · Jun 12, 2015

I'm not usually on a forum, but I am at the point of banging my head on my laptop. I've owned my laptop for a few years and since I've owned it I've had FlashPlayer issues. It's up to date and everything, but seems to "forget" it's installed. If I just turn it on, open IE and try to do anything using FlashPlayer I get the message that it needs to be installed. Which it is and is enabled, but I go for it anyway. It gets to 90% before it tells me, something to the effect, that I do not have sufficient user privilege. I do though. I found one article that gives you step by step instruction to basically turn over your computer to yourself and give you complete authority over it. FlashPlayer cared nothing for that. So, I go to the help page and it checks to see if I already have it installed...again...it says I do, then it magically works. Until I either shut my computer down or it goes to sleep.

I'm at a loss for what to do. Has anybody else experienced this or know of a sure-fire way to fix it? Anything would be useful and much appreciated. Thank you

Report · Jun 13, 2015

If you don't have enough privileges then maybe you need to right click on the download file and " Run As Administrator" where you will be prompted to enter the admin credentials of the actual PC.

IF you are on Win8.X and above then Flash updates are handled by Windows updates for Internet Explorer ONLY

What Operating system are you on is kind of important to know as well

A good article is here, which is what you prob seen: What userid & password do I need to install Flash Player?

Report · Jun 15, 2015

I'm running Windows 7 professional. I guess that is useful information lol

I've tried running it as administrator and it still gives the error. It's

installed and enabled, but it's like it forgets. So if I go to a site

needing it it tells he to install it. Then no matter what it refuses to

install. So I click the link to troubleshoot and the first thing it asks is

to check that it's installed. Does the check and says it is, then it runs

like a champ until I turn the computer off and it starts all over again.

If I go into my add ons, it says it's installed and enabled, but like I

said, unless I go through all of that it won't work.

Report · Jun 15, 2015

Try following these directions to remove all variants ( a video is included ) How do I do a clean install of Flash Player?

You also might want to run the following below, which are the offline installers, which is what I prefer for a multitude of reasons:

This is an uninstaller for ALL flash versions: http://download.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/support/uninstall_flash_player.exe

Then download and install the true installers:

I would still go an yank the system files after doing the uninstall , then running the installers below.

btw if any mod sees this they need to correct the spelling of explorer on the offline install page.

Hopefully you are confident to delete those system files if not, then just try the uninstaller followed by the installs i have listed.

Please make sure all your browsers are closed, if not it might not install correctly.

Hope that works

Report · Jun 15, 2015

I will definitely give this a shot and I appreciate the help. I guess if

all else fails I'll wait for the Windows 10 update and hope everything

works. I've never had as much trouble work a computer in my life until I

bought an HP and nothing has worked right. This is just the one thing I

can't figure out. But again, thank you so much for the help, I truly

appreciate it!