I have attempted the fixes mentioned, but have not had any success. I tried
making changes in the registry and some of the keys indicated there was an
error in opening key. I tried to change permissions, but it says access is
denied (I have admin rights to my machine). I've deleted flash.ocx from I386
and uninstalled and re-installed with no success. I have a new program I'm
trying to install and can't move forward. Any help or new suggestions would be
appreciated.

Leo, when you say look up the rights, what does that mean? Anyone else still
having this problem,? I've tried all the advice and still no luck. I cannot
edit the permissions using regedit, I have 12 errors when I use regmon for
access denied. Any more ideas?

Error 1904 from stand alone install, or * at conclusion of on line IE install -
either way Flash Player will not work. Shockwave works just fine. Flash player
worked fine until about two weeks ago. Frustrating two weeks trying all
recommended user group tips and tricks, completed survey, emailed customer
service. (The registry editing is above my head.) Running Windows XP with SP2
through auto updates, multiple users. Norton Internet Security but I've tried
installing both with it on and off, and Flash Player worked just fine only two
weeks ago with Norton running anyway. NO new programs added. Tried to open a
web site two weeks ago and received message that I needed newer version of
Flash Player to use site and it's been all downhill since.

You recommend taking it to a professional if uncomfortable with registry
editing; however calling local PC repair places they won't touch this Flash
Player problem. "the problem is with Adobe Macromedia, not your PC."

Any new ideas would be appreciated.

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This should solve your problem, as well as other issues you may be
having on your computer. I had the same 1904 error on a laptop and
fixed it with this.

Goto a CMD prompt and paste this command in.

secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
/verbose /areas REGKEYS

It will reset security settings in the registry windows xp to their
defaults. Don't worry about warning messages. Reboot and
Re-install

This will fix other issues with installing software and windows updates
as well.

If you don't have the secedit.exe, find it on another computer and copy
it to your machine into windows\system32 directory.

Goodluck,

I ran into this problem when reloading a new machine. Instead of searching for
each of the keys associated with flash, I modified the permissions at the root
of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. I added my local administrator account with full
permission and then replicated it to all of the childern. Reran my install and
it worked fine. Hope this helps for everyone else.

It looks like I'm in the same boat, I too had a perfectly functioning Flash
plugin until about last week, I too have Norton Internet Security 2006, which
I've just installed recently and when I tried to visit a website to look at
something which uses flash it told me my Javascript was either turned off
(Which it isn't) or either that my Flash was out of date, which I don't think
it was. I've tried all the suggestions here and as well as the standard
auto-reply that I got from Tech Support, but still nothing aal I get is that
annoying little " mark, I've tried to email off again to Tech Support, I don't
know how long it's going to take to reply.

But it seems quite coincidental, that you've got Norton Internet Security, I
wonder if there is an update to Norton that has somehow blocked this... which
would be a pain in the ...

I guess customer service has "exhausted" their suggestions for me. They have
ended the exchange of emails for my case, never replying to my last "reply to".
Nothing new was ever suggested that was not previously tried from tips on these
user groups. Just to be thorough I uninstalled and reinstalled Norton with
absolutely NO effect on Flash Player errors. I know from email and friends and
neighbrs that the problem is only growing with more home PCs failing to be able
to display sites that use Flash Player. I've just taken to contacting the
vendors or site owners and advising them. Most are unaware they are loosing
business because of Macromedia product. Perhaps Macromedia will listen to them
more than individual users.
For what it's worth, I finally downloaded Firefox and simply use that for
web browsing. Things seem to work fine in the Firefox world. Though it has its
limitations vs IE at least those sites I need to use that require Flash Player
can be opened.
Good luck with customer service.

It kills me how people always blame the vendor of the software they're trying
to install for the problem.
This problem is clearly a result of software that is currently running or was
running on your computers that has modified the Operating System in such a way,
that it deviates from its defaults. Adobe would not put out software that it
doesn't first test.

Try this:
1. Go to Google.com
2. Search "Error 1904".
3. See how many other companies that have software report this error show up
on your search.

Want to know a common problem? Try this for an answer:
Windows, Security Permissions, Malware, Anti-Spyware software, Antivirus
applications, anything that would prevent you from writing to the registry or
to the file system.

Want a permanent fix? Easy!
Reinstall Windows. Install all the Adobe software you want and then install
the malware stuff!

And NO ... I DO NOT WORK FOR ADOBE!!!

I am seeing Error 1904 when installing Breeze Presenter v5.1 (Powerpoint
plugin) when either Flash 8 or 9.0.16 is installed. If I remove Flash 8 or 9
and use the 'uninstall_flash_player.exe' available from this website, then
Flash 7.0.19.0 (flash.ocx) remains in the C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
folder. The Breeze Presenter v5.1 installer happily installs with that version
of flash.ocx, but not with later versions.

I am able to upgrade to later versions of Flash after installing Breeze
Presenter, without triggering any obvious problems in Breeze. Also, when I
ignore the error 1904 during the Breeze Presentater installation, it still
appears to work in Powerpoint.

My observation is that this command fails whenever I see error 1904:
regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash\flash.ocx
(This succeeds after running 'uninstall_flash_player.exe', but fails after
upgrading using the Active-X web installation of Flash 9.)

I think there is some version checking occuring that prevents multiple
versions of flash to be installed and registered at the same time, and that
Breeze Presenter's installer is trying to register Flash 7 when it should not
be.
This command succeeds after installing Flash 9 (as expected):
regsvr32 c:\windows\system32\macromed\flash\flash9.ocx

The Firefox/Netscape/Opera version of Flash doesn't seem to play any role in
these problems.
(I have an image of the workstations that this problem occurred on, and can
reproduce it.)

Hooray!!!!! :grin; Thanks scrandal & co for the pointers in the right
direction! I've fixed my issue too!

I don't like the way I had to fix them - but, hey, at least they're fixed now.

I used regedit and added the Administrators group to the permissions for each
of the following HK_CLASSES_ROOT entries:

FlashFactory.FlashFactory
FlashFactory.FlashFactory.1
FlashProp.FlashProp
FlashProp.FlashProp.1
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.1
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.6
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.8

Then I just re-installed - I didn't have to fart about, uninstalling first.

[b]Note: I was unable to edit the permissions from any account other than the
one that originally installed Flash.[/b] Fortunately that account still
exists, although, following some Microsoft issues, it is now redundant.

I've also noticed that a number of other registery entries also have
permissions for the original account only - I'm going to change them all now so
that any Administrator account can access them.
:smile;

I had this problem since Dec 2005. I gave up on trying to fix this problem
along with others including Windows Media Player 10.
I reinstall Windows from the DELL restore disk and now everything is fine.
The upgrade to the new Flash completed SUCCESSFULLY.
Flash Player and Windows Media Player 10 are now working.
I am not sure if a Security update othe installing some other software caused
the problem but this is NOT a problem caused by Adobe.
BEWARE when installing software and always create a RESTORE POINT.
The Windows registry heart of all software and when it get corrupt then you
can forget on programs running properly.
That's why most new programs are written in JAVA which does not use the
registry.

If anybody still has a problem with deleting HKCR keys using regedit:

FlashFactory.FlashFactory
FlashFactory.FlashFactory.1
FlashProp.FlashProp
FlashProp.FlashProp.1
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.1
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.6
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7
ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.8

from the registry ("Access denied."), here's how to do it:

1. Log in as Administrator and run regedit.
2. Right click on a key, choose "Privileges..." (second from the bottom).
3. Add user "Administrator" (actually any existing user will do, with or
without administrative rights).
4. Grant "Full access" for this user. Don't click OK or Apply yet, or you'll
see a big fat "Access denied." warning.
5. Click Advanced, go to Owner tab.
6. Choose Administrator, and click OK in the Advanced settings window, and
Privileges window. Regedit shouldn't argue at this point.

Access rights are now set for the current key, but not subkeys, so you won't
be able to delete the whole key just yet - you have to repeat the action
described above for every subkey of every subkey (luckily there's not that
many). Unfortunately setting recursive inheritance doesn't work. After setting
new rights for a key be sure to refresh the tree (hit F5), so that contents of
the unlocked key are shown.
Setting access rights and ownership seems to fix the problem, as this was said
a few posts earlier, so I suppose it's no difference, if you actually delete
those keys or not, but I deleted them anyway. Couldn't resist :grin;

Have fun! And if you're ever in Poland remember to buy me and my brother a
:beer;

Matias, self-proclaimed Microsoft MVP :evil;

I'm on Win XP, IE 6.0.2900. FP worked in Firefox, but not IE. I tried one of
the simple solutions mentioned earlier (figured start with something easy), and
it worked. I used the
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_14157 and then
re-installed Flash straight from Adobe's site (after unchecking the Yahoo
toolbar box!). When I was having the issue, I never got the ActiveX install
"warning" on Adobe's site, but after uninstalling and going back, I did.
Player works fine now.

This whole mess comes about typically from something messing around with key
permissions on HKLM/Software/Classes and usually wiping everything and changing
it to Everyone with full access.

HKLM/Software/Classes should have group Administrators granted full access,
SYSTEM granted full access and USERS granted Read access, these rights are then
inherited by the subkeys. CREATOR OWNER and Power Users probably should appear
in the permissions as well on a factory new install. HKCR is a merge of the
HKLM/Software/Classes and HKCU/Software/Classes keys.

Q313222 from Microsoft is one place to start for finding how permissions can
be set back to factory for the Registry. I'm still dealing with bad Flash
installs a year and a half later. You can waste a lot of time running down all
the nonwritable keys with REGMON which is a great tool by the way, but this
really is a waste of time when the parent key is missing it's proper ACL
settings and you could cure most of the problem by restoring the permissions
and allowing inheritance to take care of all those Administrator unwriteable
keys.

Once this is corrected, you can then use REGMON to run down the one or two
keys that really do have messed up permissions.

Thanks a lot guys....

especially to "Matias_pl"... with the help of your post only i installed flash
player in my machine again....

thanks a lot once again...

I'll definitely buy beers for you and your brother if I get a chance to visit
poland.... :-)

kudos......

-

Hari

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]Gollux[/b][/b][/i]
This whole mess comes about typically from something messing around with key
permissions on HKLM/Software/Classes and usually wiping everything and changing
it to Everyone with full access.

[b]HKLM/Software/Classes should have group Administrators granted full access,
SYSTEM granted full access and USERS granted Read access, these rights are then
inherited by the subkeys. CREATOR OWNER and Power Users probably should appear
in the permissions as well on a factory new install. HKCR is a merge of the
HKLM/Software/Classes and HKCU/Software/Classes keys. [/b]

Q313222 from Microsoft is one place to start for finding how permissions can
be set back to factory for the Registry. I'm still dealing with bad Flash
installs a year and a half later. You can waste a lot of time running down all
the nonwritable keys with REGMON which is a great tool by the way, but this
really is a waste of time when the parent key is missing it's proper ACL
settings and you could cure most of the problem by restoring the permissions
and allowing inheritance to take care of all those Administrator unwriteable
keys.

Once this is corrected, you can then use REGMON to run down the one or two
keys that really do have messed up permissions.[/q]

I have just fixed 3 machines with the HKLM/Software/Classes permission
problem. This seems to be the big culpret causing most of the problems.

For the past 2 day's I have tried just about every solution posted in this
forum. I believe I have found a solution that just might work for a large
percentage of the viewers. I can't remember whose instructions these were. I
copied and pasted and then proceeded as instructed.

Step 1.
Using the SubInAcL tool from Microsoft to fix permission issues in the
registry has solved installation errors for several products including Flash
Player.
The following solution involves the Windows System Registry. Editing or
manipulating the registry incorrectly can result in serious system damage which
may require reinstallation of the operating system. If you are not comfortable
editing the registry, then take your system to a professional. If you choose to
proceed, then it is essential that you create a complete system backup and a
Windows System Restore Point before proceeding. Adobe Systems cannot be held
responsible for damage resulting from this information.

You must have administrator privileges to successfully complete these
instructions.
1. Follow the instructions to download and install the subinacl tool from
Microsoft here.
2. Use a text editor to create a file and name it reset.cmd. Save the
reset.cmd in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools folder.
3. Copy and paste the following content into the reset.cmd file. Then save and
close the file.

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
4. Open the command window to run the reset.cmd script. Select Start, Run, and
type in "cmd".
5. In the command windows type in "cd C:\Program Files\Windows Resource
Kits\Tools" and select Enter.
6. Type in "reset.cmd" and select Enter. This will run the SubInACL tool.
7. After a few minutes processing subinacl, the permissions will be reset.
8. Install the Flash Player from here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
9. Test the Flash Player here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome


Next: STEP 2.
I took GOLLUX's advice and went to Q313222 from Microsoft and followed this
instruction:

To reset your operating system back to original installation default security
settings: 1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
2. Type secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
/verbose, and then press ENTER. You receive a "Task is completed" message, and
a warning message that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this
message. For more information about this message, view the
%windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file.

Thanks Gollux & to whoever posted instructions for the Windows Resource Tool.
Problem solved!

For the past 2 day's I have tried just about every solution posted in this
forum. I believe I have found a solution that just might work for a large
percentage of the viewers. I can't remember whose instructions these were. I
copied and pasted and then proceeded as instructed.

Step 1.
Using the SubInAcL tool from Microsoft to fix permission issues in the
registry has solved installation errors for several products including Flash
Player.
The following solution involves the Windows System Registry. Editing or
manipulating the registry incorrectly can result in serious system damage which
may require reinstallation of the operating system. If you are not comfortable
editing the registry, then take your system to a professional. If you choose to
proceed, then it is essential that you create a complete system backup and a
Windows System Restore Point before proceeding. Adobe Systems cannot be held
responsible for damage resulting from this information.

You must have administrator privileges to successfully complete these
instructions.
1. Follow the instructions to download and install the subinacl tool from
Microsoft here.
2. Use a text editor to create a file and name it reset.cmd. Save the
reset.cmd in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools folder.
3. Copy and paste the following content into the reset.cmd file. Then save and
close the file.

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
4. Open the command window to run the reset.cmd script. Select Start, Run, and
type in "cmd".
5. In the command windows type in "cd C:\Program Files\Windows Resource
Kits\Tools" and select Enter.
6. Type in "reset.cmd" and select Enter. This will run the SubInACL tool.
7. After a few minutes processing subinacl, the permissions will be reset.
8. Install the Flash Player from here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
9. Test the Flash Player here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome


Next: STEP 2.
I took GOLLUX's advice and went to Q313222 from Microsoft and followed this
instruction:

To reset your operating system back to original installation default security
settings: 1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
2. Type secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
/verbose, and then press ENTER. You receive a "Task is completed" message, and
a warning message that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this
message. For more information about this message, view the
%windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file.

Thanks Gollux & to whoever posted instructions for the Windows Resource Tool.
Problem solved!

mxmom493

For the past 2 day's I have tried just about every solution posted in this
forum. I believe I have found a solution that just might work for a large
percentage of the viewers. I can't remember whose instructions these were. I
copied and pasted and then proceeded as instructed.

Step 1.
Using the SubInAcL tool from Microsoft to fix permission issues in the
registry has solved installation errors for several products including Flash
Player.
The following solution involves the Windows System Registry. Editing or
manipulating the registry incorrectly can result in serious system damage which
may require reinstallation of the operating system. If you are not comfortable
editing the registry, then take your system to a professional. If you choose to
proceed, then it is essential that you create a complete system backup and a
Windows System Restore Point before proceeding. Adobe Systems cannot be held
responsible for damage resulting from this information.

You must have administrator privileges to successfully complete these
instructions.
1. Follow the instructions to download and install the subinacl tool from
Microsoft here.
2. Use a text editor to create a file and name it reset.cmd. Save the
reset.cmd in C:\Program Files\Windows Resource Kits\Tools folder.
3. Copy and paste the following content into the reset.cmd file. Then save and
close the file.

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=administrators=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=administrators=f

subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CURRENT_USER /grant=system=f
subinacl /subkeyreg HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT /grant=system=f
subinacl /subdirectories %SystemDrive% /grant=system=f
4. Open the command window to run the reset.cmd script. Select Start, Run, and
type in "cmd".
5. In the command windows type in "cd C:\Program Files\Windows Resource
Kits\Tools" and select Enter.
6. Type in "reset.cmd" and select Enter. This will run the SubInACL tool.
7. After a few minutes processing subinacl, the permissions will be reset.
8. Install the Flash Player from here: http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
9. Test the Flash Player here: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/welcome


Next: STEP 2.
I took GOLLUX's advice and went to Q313222 from Microsoft and followed this
instruction:

To reset your operating system back to original installation default security
settings: 1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then press ENTER.
2. Type secedit /configure /cfg %windir%\repair\secsetup.inf /db secsetup.sdb
/verbose, and then press ENTER. You receive a "Task is completed" message, and
a warning message that something could not be done. You can safely ignore this
message. For more information about this message, view the
%windir%\Security\Logs\Scesrv.log file.

Thanks Gollux & to whoever posted instructions for the Windows Resource Tool.
Problem solved!

mxmom493

The easy way to delete flash8b.ocx or similar is to rename the file to
flash8b.txt, then move the file to another directory (I chose the root), then
delete the old directory then change the file from read-only (this does not
work until you have moved the file), then delete the file as normal. I am not
sure if the renaming or deleting the old directory are essential, but it can't
hurt and was part of the things I tried to get my file gone. Best of luck

At our hospital, Flash refused to work in user Citrix sessions on thin clients.
There were pop-ups requesting to install the flash player even though it was
already installed. Using the information in this thread we gave 'full control'
to the 'users' group on all our Citrix servers (Windows 2003 SP1, Internet
Explorer 6, MetaFrame XP) for the following keys:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FlashFactory.FlashFactory
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FlashFactory.FlashFactory.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FlashProp.FlashProp
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FlashProp.FlashProp.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.1
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.3
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.4
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.5
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.6
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.8

That did the trick.

Tuur Ruytjens
System Engineer
Sacred Heart Hospital Leuven, Belgium

Just an FYI here on reproducing this problem consistently. I am looking into
this further but wanted to post my findings so far so that others can look into
this and maybe Adobe can make use of these steps to try to reproduce and fix
the issue.

1. Work from a clean install of WinXP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Version 2002
Serice Pack 2. (This may work with non tablet pc version as well but haven't
tried)
2. Look under C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash folder and there should only
be Flash.ocx which was included with the system install.
3. Go to Windows Security Center under Control Panel and click the link to
check for the lastest updates from Windows Update. (note you should go through
all the updates but the one that I think is causing the problem is the one
which installs flash6.ocx, you will notice flash6.ocx will be in the
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash folder after the security update for flash)
4. Run an InstallShield basic msi installer that includes the
flashplayer8mergemodule.msm redistributable.
5. You should get an error dialog
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash8b.ocx failed to register. HRESULT
-2147220473. If you take out step3 with the flash security windows update and
don't allow that to ever run before you run your flash install you will not get
the bug at all.

Hope this helps,

-Shane

Shane Wheeler
wheeler@exploriasps.com

I have more insight into Shane's Problem. After performing research on the
web, I noticed there is a SafeVersions key in the registry. This can be
located at:

HKLM\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions

Under SafeVersions, there are values for 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

After installing MS KB923789, the value for
HKLM\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions\8.0 was 0x0000021 (Decimal
Value of 33). I assume that means that no version less than 8.0.33 can be
installed. I was installing Version 8.0.24. When either the value of the key
HKLM\Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions\8.0 was changed to a lower
version, ie 18, or if the SafeVersions key was completely removed, the
application for flash 8.0.24 installed.

For my case, I was use the Flash Player Merge Module for Internet Explorer
from the Adobe Distribution Download.

I believe that this problem can be recreated for any version of flash player
including 9. The troubling factor is how do SafeVersion play into the
installation of the product? I cannot find any documentation about this key.

Al

Update on flash problems in Citrix:

On some of our servers we had to give full control to the 'everyone' or
'users' group for every key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT that contained the string
'flash' on top of the ones mentioned above.

It's a tedious job to do but it works. For now.

Tuur Ruytjens
System Engineer
Sacred Heart Hospital Leuven, Belgium

Cleared the explicit deny permission on the Everyone Group on the following
registery keys. Was able to successfully register flash.ocx afterwards
following directions listed in the thread.

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}

1. Make sure you have ADMIN privileges to the machine
2. Search your machine for the file "flash.ocx"
3. copy or write down the full path to this file. It -should- be
C:/Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx
If the file is NOT in that folder, copy it into that folder. Make sure there
are NO other .ocx files in that folder. If there is an 'swflash.ocx' delete it.
4. Choose Start> Run
5. In the run dialog, type or paste exactly this line. :
RegSvr32 C:/Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx

_jasonWylie, thank you for your solution.
I recevied error 1904.module c:\windows\system32\macromed\Flash\Flash.ocx failed

For me the use of the SubInAcL tool from Microsoft to fix permission issues in the registry has solved the installation errors for both the Flash Player and Quicktime.

[q][i]Originally posted by: [b][b]_jasonWylie[/b][/b][/i]
Macromedia has recently become aware of a problem some users are having with
Flash Player 7 ActiveX control failing to run in Internet Explorer for Windows.
These users see only a static ?no image? icon instead of Flash content.
Uninstalling and reinstalling Flash present no problem, but after reinstalling
all of the necessary files are in the correct places, but Flash content
continues to not display in Internet Explorer. In many of these cases,
Macromedia Support has asked users to attempt to manually register the
flash.ocx ActiveX control file. This usually results in a ?failed to register?
error, which we refer to as the ?1904 error?. IF you can use the following
steps to reproduce the 1904 error message, please fill out our survey at the
end of this post
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------ First, run the Flash Player uninstaller for
Windows from http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_14157 Next do EXACTLY THIS: 1.
Make sure you have ADMIN privileges to the machine 2. Search your machine for
the file "flash.ocx" 3. copy or write down the full path to this file. It
-should- be C:/Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx If the file is NOT
in that folder, copy it into that folder. Make sure there are NO other .ocx
files in that folder. If there is an 'swflash.ocx' delete it. 4. Choose Start>
Run 5. In the run dialog, type or paste exactly this line. : RegSvr32
C:/Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash/Flash.ocx IF YOU RECEVIEVE THIS ERROR YOU
ARE A CANDIDATE TO HELP US: Dll RegisterServer in
C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\Flash.ocx failed. Return code was :
Ox80020009 IF YOU RECEIVE AN ERROR RUNNING THE MSI VERSION OF THE FLASH
INSTALLER YOU ARE ALSO A CANDIDATE. If you run the msi installer and receive
this error you can help us: c:\windows\system32\macromed\Flash\Flash.ocx
failed to reg. HRESULT ? 2147352567
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BTW This means nothing to me...tried loading my Quickbooks CDR tonight on my
new Gateway Vista machine and after several attempts at loading I got this
error....QB is unloadable on this new machine. Not very happy at the moment.

ERROR 1904. Module
C:\windows\system32\macromed\Flash\Flash.ocx failed to register. HRESULT
-2147319780. Contact your support personel.

Please fix this....

For what it's worth, and this is not the most "best-practice" method of solving
this problem... The updated active-X control or Flash-player does NOT install a
file named flash.ocx ..... Atleast that has been the case with me (Windows XP
SP2, and Windows Vista Home Premium Edition). Doing a search for the
"flash.ocx" dll or library extension yields no results. Instead, the file that
is brought up using a search with parameters of "flash*.ocx" brings back a
result of: "flash9c.ocx". What has worked for me, (and this is not the most
appropriate approach) I duplicated the "flash9c.ocx" file, and renamed the
"copy of flash9c.ocx" into the the file I needed: "flash.ocx" This worked for
me. It is not a recommended fix, and it is not a long term solution as
Microsoft will continue to re-write it's kernel with no backwards
compatibility. In the interim, this is a viable SHORT term solution.

~~~~ Jerry or Spartan_Atlantian. Would appreciate any feed back.

All
I recently had this error 1904 error on a few dozen machines. Tried all the
listed fixes and none worked. Finally justed deleted all of the FLASH
references in the registry and tried the reinstall on every pc and they all
worked.

Hope this helps.