Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: NJAntman on August 23, 2009, 09:16:35 am
Title: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: NJAntman on August 23, 2009, 09:16:35 am
Have a bit of a cluster F trying to use Adobe Flash Player. Started when You-Tube would no longer work and kept linking to an install of Flash Player, which wouldn't work unless an Adobe Active X installer was allowed, which fails to install properly, and if I try by download and then offline the "not the latest version" warning halts the execution even thought the version is direct from the Adobe site. Round and Round I go.
Anybody out there able to sum up the what and how of Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Acitve X, and the latest version/availability?
For now I just You-Tube thru Google. But starting to notice some site are coming up blank graphics/videos even though they worked before. And of course I don't recall making any changes recently. :huh:
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Dash Jones on August 23, 2009, 08:38:36 pm
To Use Firefox?
Or alternately IE if you have problems with that?
Or then go to Safari?
In otherwords, I think trying to use another browser as a work around could help maybe.
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Pestalence_XC on August 24, 2009, 01:26:15 pm
first uninstall flash player
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
restart system
reinstall flash player
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=DXLUJ
hope this helps
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: NJAntman on August 25, 2009, 02:40:55 pm
I'll give that a try. And this bit of info from the 1st link
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Due to recent enhancements to the Adobe Flash Player installers, you can now remove the player only by using the Adobe Flash Player uninstaller.
, that doesn't sound like an enhancement to me.
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Bonk on August 25, 2009, 05:18:32 pm
Flash is Macromedia and Adobe's revenge for all the pirated copies of Freehand and Photoshop out there. ;D
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: NJAntman on August 26, 2009, 11:05:47 pm
Alas, no joy. Got rid of the old install with the Adobe unistaller, ran all the way through an install of ver 10.0.32.18, get error message "failed to register". Ran through their forums and it seems its a known problem with hit or miss solutions.
Oddly when I just ran my cursor over the Install file it shows it as ver 10.0.22.87? Downloaded again from their site (listing as ver 10.0.32.18) but same thing.
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Pestalence_XC on August 27, 2009, 10:34:59 am
Maybe it is IE version? which IE are you using.. I can verify Flash is working properly on IE 8, at least on my system..maybe refresh / reinstall IE.. or maybe even run a Spybot scan of your system to see if something infected your browser?
also :
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Note: The uninstaller cannot remove files currently in use.
If you have any instances of the player open in your web browsers, instant messaging clients, stand-alone SWFs, or projectors, then the uninstaller will complete but some files may not be deleted. If this occurs, then close all of your applications and run the uninstaller again to ensure that all files are removed.
You may want to make sure that Windows or Yahoo or Skype messengers are not auto starting with your computer (You can disable in the start up tab in MSCONFIG launched from the Run command bar in your start button menu).
Also attempt to do this with your AV disabled.
then if that doesn't work, get Hijack This from Synaptics and run a scan and post the results.. I will see if anything is causing incompatibility.
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: NJAntman on August 28, 2009, 06:09:34 pm
I'm using 7.0.5730.13
I closed all the other apps running in the tray before the install, inclluding Avira and Spybot Sd Resident.
I'll get a scan from Hijack and post it. And the results are:
Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2 Scan saved at 7:13:25 PM, on 8/28/2009 Platform: Windows XP SP3 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v7.00 (7.00.6000.16876) Boot mode: Normal
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Bonk on August 29, 2009, 08:18:38 am
It seems like there are problems with flash and IE8. It seems pretty consistent across the web that embedded youtube videos are failing for people with IE8. I have tried XHTML 1.0 compliant and non-compliant code and all browsers work except IE. e.g.:
The flash object seems to sort of load, but does not work in IE8 but works in Opera, Iron and Firefox. I bet it's some kind of DRM in the IE flash plugin that the Opera/Mozilla/Chrome flash plugin does not have. Or perhaps it's related to that lawsuit with the "click to activate" outcome? ::)
P.S. Holy crap, that Nokia is quite the device. All it needs is a remote desktop client!
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Bonk on August 29, 2009, 08:45:37 am
Wait now, I just updated the IE8 flash to 11.5 and when I right click the flash object and get the version it tells me I am running version 7! And that page at adobe tells me that version 10 is the current version. Something is badly messed here. I guess I gotta do the uninstall reboot, install reboot routine... shame because I have a huge desktop session going that I have been running all week...
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: Bonk on August 29, 2009, 09:05:18 am
Oh that was shockwave 11.5 I accepted an install of in IE8. Funny how easy it was to accept the wrong product...
Anyway, I uninstalled shockwave and flash and rebooted, then I first used IE to install flash, then I used firefox to install flash, now it appears to work in both browsers. Hurray!
Title: Re: Help needed with Adobe Flash Player and Active X
Post by: NJAntman on August 31, 2009, 08:41:28 pm
Finally got it to work.
Installed IE8, which of cource wouldn't complete the install correctly and left some link to IE Troubleshooting webpage which actually did correct the problem on its' own. But then any page which needed "Active X"(?) would be shut down by IE after starting to load to "protect the system".
Took several tries at shutting down all other apps, uninstalling Flashplayer, re-booting, shutting down all apps, and then re-installing Flashplayer before flashlpayer would work at all.