After installing Macromedia Flash MX 2004 and rebooting, I get the following
error when I attempt to run it:

Title Bar: Flash
This program has perforned an illegal operation and will be shut down.
If thie problem persists, contact the program vendor.

Details:
Flash caused an invalid page fault in module FLASH.EXE at 017f:00c45437.

Any Ideas as to why Flash will not run would be appreciated as the program is
not being very helpful.

Additional information:
OS: Windows 98 SE
Program installed is the Trial Version.

The following processes are NOT running:
Flash.exe and ~e5d141.tmp

Error occurs just as the message Loading Toolbars... appears.

Does this product require that Real Player be installed?

I am asking because a noticed a reference to security.dll which is installed
with real player.

rdhddmazoku;
I can't see the rest of this thread in my newsreader, but are you
talking about flash 8? If so, you may want to re-check the minumim system
requirements--I believe win 98se is no longer supported... -Tom Unger

im getting the exact same problem. Also have win98SE. I also saw on another
forum someone had this problem. Geez! Mine is even completely installed with a
serial and everything! Anyone figured this out?

Nope. its version 7. Saw about 4 or 5 other instances of this on the internet.
Have no idea whats wrong, and usually if its not compatible with an operating
system it wont even install (there is a thing set up that checks it first and
then tells you you cant) and it installed perfectly fine, twice. Guess its just
a hate win 98 thing...

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Flash MX 2004 is compatible with Win98 SE (second edition only). Flash
8 is not.

So compatibility is not the cause of your crash. You'll have to do some
more basic troubleshooting to try to isolate the cause...

http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_14776 would be a good place to start
(disregard the safe mode step though. You can't launch FMX2004 in safe
mode. You CAN reinstall it in safe mode though, which is a good idea...
but you have to reboot normally to launch it because of the activation
scheme....)

-- Regards,

Bentley Wolfe
Senior Escalation Engineer, Flash
Macromedia