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Arnoldk50
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August 22, 2010
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I am having major problems with the Flash Player Download

  • August 22, 2010
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I have downloaded it probably 12 times +. I have tried everything I know and keep coming back to the boards for more. I don't know what else to do. I have I/E 8. I use AVG 8.5. I use Net zero and their proprietary pop up blocker. I download 10.1.82.76. I have also downloaded the older version and tried that. I tried the manual download. I made sure AVG is off. My Internet setting is at Medium.I have CCleaner installed. The blocker is on.I do see the whirling F video and it say I have the corresponding download to the right, and that it was successfully downloaded. I go to my control panel and in there it shows the download manger actively installed with a quantity of size. It shows the Adobe Flash Player also installed at least in name, BUT there is no quantity displayed for the file size. So this tells me it is somewhere, but just not totally installed or stuck somewhere. I completely remove it each time I reload it And I restart before I redownload. As far as I remember I already had it operating a while ago and all of a sudden my game site wouldn't work on Facebook. So I troubleshot it. It said to download the latest version if the game won't start so I did. And that is when this whole download problem began, probably about a week and a half ago.I have Windows XP Pro in I believe 32 bit, but where it says to check it says 128 bit capable, I think was the word. I can't find specific 32 or 64 anywhere.XP version is several years old.and I don't have any brand new hardware. It is an ASUS board, top of the line back when. and no problems before. There is a raid system running. as the board was designed for it. And I run two mirrored high speed discs in SATA. but they are almost totally empty. They are Raptors.The board is a P5AD2 Deluxe. I just have 1 Gig or ram installed.I use a slow but usually reliable dial up download. I can't get high speed.I have another spyware blocker in the tray Zone Alarm, but I very seldom use it and keep it off most of the time and every time I have downloaded the Flash.In tools my Flash Object is enabled AND it shows the correct download version of Flash. Under Internet Properties/Advanced I don't know which to set where so I haven't changed any.........Well that's about all I can tell you that I remember I have tried. Now you can see what you can think of. I'm out and really ticked at this Adobe thing.

I hope I can find my way back to these posts for the answers.

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    MyTwistedSister
    Known Participant
    August 23, 2010

    Ditto here, most of my time is spent downloading the Flash Player only to get the message to do it again.  I don't know if this is something new but it is a major pain and obviously not just for me.

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    Arnoldk50Author
    Participating Frequently
    August 24, 2010

    Hi,

    I agree, but If you don't want to follow their fixes and jusmp through the hoops then I guess we just have to do w/o Facebook games. As to the FP download, I think it works and the problem lis in the crappy software that the people at Facebook has employed. They have written back and admitted that they have problems with IE 8 so to me that tells me that they don't know what thir doing or don't care. I mean if you going to put a game on a platform like Facebook and throw it out there for millions of players to use, then I would definitely want it to be compatible with all of the most popular browsers and such. And while there are a lot of people that use firfox and all those other ones, I am not willing to change my browser just to accomidate some game on facebook or their engineers. So I guess they can basically stuff their games. Maybe when enough people complain or leave Facebook they'll get the message.

    Tom.............

    pwillener
    pwillener
    Legend
    August 22, 2010

    If you can see the Flash animation at http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ then Flash Player is correctly installed and working.


    Flash Player will not show any size at the right side of Add/Remove Programs.

    Can you tell us what files you have in folder C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash ?

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    Arnoldk50Author
    Participating Frequently
    August 22, 2010

    In the order found.

    Flash10i ocx Active X Control

    Flash Util10_ActiveX-Adobe flash Player Install

    install-text document

    Flash Install-text document

    FlashUtil10i_ActiveX.dll-10.1.83.76-AdobeFlash Player Helper 10

    swflash.ocx-Active Control

    THAT IS COMPLETE MINUS SPACE USED.

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    Anonymous
    August 22, 2010

    Hi, Just real quick until Pat comes on the Forum, that swflash.ocx-Active Control is a very old file. Go back and right click on it and Delete/Remove it. Then Reboot your computer.

    You said in Tools, Manage add ons you have Shockwave Flash Object and it is version 10.1.82.76 and Enabled. So that is correct.

    See if there is any improvement now.

    Thanks,

    eidnolb

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