flash player 11.4 keeps asking for reinstall

Hi, kinetic4307!

Sorry it's taken me so long to get back. I was on vacation and ignoring my emails for a while.

But now I'm back...

I've figured out a way to install Adobe, Java, and other hard-to-install add-ons and plugins on Windows 7. It's time-consuming, and I don't know if it'll work for everyone all the time, but it has worked for me since January.

Here are the steps.

• First time only (Warning: Although you never need to do these "First time" steps again, they take a while and they will reset all your IE options):
  1. If User Account Control has been set to the highest level, reset it (from an Adminstrator account) to the next to highest level and restart your computer.
  2. For each user account on the computer, go into Internet Explorer Tools, Options.
     • In Security tab, click to reset all zones to the defaults, and then check the box for "Enable Protected Mode". Then click on Custom, and set "Launching in an iFrame" to "Prompt".
     • In Privacy tab, click on Advanced and check the box to Override Automatic Cookie Handling. Then accept 1st-party cookies, prompt for 3rd-party cookies, but uncheck to always allow session cookies.
     • In Connections tab, click on Lan Settings, and uncheck all except "Automatically detect."
     • In Advanced tab, click on both Restore Advanced Settings and Reset.
  3. Close all browsers.
  4. For each user account, click the Windows button + R (This brings up the "Run" window.) and type "temp" (without quotes.) This brings you into the Temp folder. Delete everything in that folder which can be deleted. Then bring up the "Run" window again, and type "%temp%". Delete everything you can from that folder, too.
  5. Uninstall Adobe from your computer, via http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html.
  6. Uninstall Java via Control panel.
  7. Close the browser.
  8. For each user account, delete these folders:
     • C:\Users\userid\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Flash Player
     • C:\Users\userid\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player
  9. Delete these folders:
     • C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash
     • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash (if you are using a 64-bit system)
  10. Delete these files:
      • C:\Windows\System32\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
      • C:\Windows\System32\FlashPlayerApp.exe
      • C:\Windows\System32\FlashPlayerInstaller.exe
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerApp.exe
      • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\FlashPlayerInstaller.exe
  11. Restart the computer.

• Every time you do one of these updates/installations:
  1. For each browser you have, for each user account, make sure the browser is up-to-date. Then delete all history in the browser. Temporarily disable all cookie-blocking add-ons or plug-ins like Ghostery, NotScripts, or DoNotTrack.
  2. In Internet explorer, for each user account: 
     • Turn off popup blocker, Active X filtering, and Smart Screen filter.
     • In Internet Options, Security tab, click on Custom, and then TEMPORARILY allow previously unused activeX controls to run without prompt.
     • In Internet Options, Advanced tab, TEMPORARILY uncheck “Do not save encrypted pages to disk.”
  3. Close all browsers.
  4. For each user account, remove temp and %temp% files, as above.
  5. Temporarily disable your antivirus and anti-malware, like Norton or McAfee. Remember to disable any background anti-malware programs, like Spywareblaster, too.
  6. Download and install the pesky updates.
  7. If you like, turn back on Active X Filtering, Smart Screen filter and/or pop-up blocker, for each user.
  8. Reenable your cookie blocker addons/plugins and reverse the two temporary changes you'd made in #2 above, for each user.
  9. Reenable your security and anti-malware programs.

• First time only:

  1. For each user, in any browser, go into http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager02.html to reset your Adobe settings. (If using IE, you may have to click the icon in your address bar to turn off filtering for this page.) In the Global Security Settings panel, click "Always Ask", but add macromedia.com to the list of trusted locations. If you watch TV stations online via their websites, you may have to add them, too. For example, I had to add ABCLocal.go.com.

Please let me know if this works for you. I'm an amateur, and I spent hours till I'd actually figured out a solution!

Thanks, and Good Luck.

Thanks, lokikffh,

As I indicated, the permissions seem to have been the problem, so your response was VERY helpful.

Resolved.

Thanks, RickCP,

I have Java 7, Flash Player 11.4.402.265, Active X Filtering is off.

As you can see from my original post, I already did a clean reinstall.

How can I check my permissions, please?

Thanks again.