FIX TO ADOBE FLASH 9 PROMISE!! -- macromedia players flash

macromedia players flash : FIX TO ADOBE FLASH 9 PROMISE!!

Jeckyl
10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM

What exactly does it fix?

I've heard of people using the and then having MASSIVE problems .. note the
caveat on the web page:

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Warning: The 'reset.cmd' is not an Adobe or Spectrum Software Inc (SSI)
program. Adobe Systems nor SSI cannot be held responsible for damage
resulting from running this script. The 'reset.cmd' script 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 it's
best to take your machine to a professional. If you choose to proceed, it is
essential to create a complete system backup and a Windows System Restore
Point before proceeding. Adobe Systems nor SSI cannot be held responsible
for damage resulting from this 'reset.cmd' script.
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That is exactly what happens to some people who use it. It is NOT
guaranteed to work ,and I would NOT recommend this to anyone !!!

As the site says:
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If it WAS a guaranteed solution with no nasty side-effects, then Adobe would
have already been advising people to use it. As they are not, that is
further evidence that it is NOT a good or safe solution !!
--
Jeckyl

JDID112
10/30/2006 12:00:00 AM

Guess what? When people get tired of NO youtube, newgrounds, flash sites, their
kids on disney. They'll go here
Create a restore point and have at it. Anything goes wrong, restore comp. It
worked for me.

JDID112
10/30/2006 1:57:07 AM

ADOBE FIX!!! GARUNTEED TO WORK!!!

I was once browsing here, looking for a fix to the horrible flash 9.

Guess what, Love flash 9. There's a fix.

http://www.donglefree.com/toppage1.htm

Trust me, no hoax. Install the file it tells you. CLOSE ALL PROGRAMS. RUN the
program. WAIT. WAIT. WAIT until the program tells you to click any button to
continue. Go download flash 9 again. VOILA!!!

Wondering888
10/30/2006 3:36:54 PM

Ha Ha

JDID112 !!! U are the MAN !!!!

MY LOUSY FALSH PLAYER IS BACK !!!!!!

ADOBE Goons. I'm not telling U how to solve it !!!

GO figure out yourself if U think U ARE THAT SMART !!!!

Ha Ha Ha Ha

NO more updates from ADOBE ever again for me !!!!

JDID112 You made My Day !!!

Btw JDID112 stop advising the ADOBE Goons on how to solve it, let them run in
the dark chasing shadows!!!!

GOOD Riddance

JDID112
10/30/2006 10:50:41 PM

That's how it goes? I make an alternate account to spaz up the excitement?
Persuade you a little more? No I don't work for the site. I am just a person
who got mixed in with the flash player problem. Found a fix, and wanted to tell
others how to fix it.

AdobeGoons?

Sound NOTHING like me. I have no regret for me putting this up. A couple of
users may not think its safe or maybe hate me for it, but, Too bad. There are
TONS of people here looking for an answer. Tons of people with no ability to
use a flashplayer. I remember installing COUNTLESS times flash player 9,
uninstalling, OCX, all that business. Stumbled over a thread with someone
talking about it. Worked for me, it must work for somebody else. Just wanted to
help another person. I helped one. I HOPE I did, anyway. He sure expressed
HIS/HER anger toward adobe, I was fristrated once to, So like I said, I am
proud of what I am doing. I got one person fixed, And I hope to help more
people. Thankyou, if you read this entire thing. Probably thing I am BS by now
but, whatever, got to keep trying. And maybe he is right? Maybe you are 'Goons'
.. 'Lurkers', Adobe staff putting down the idea that MAYBE there is a fix to the
flash 9 problem. Why they do it? I don't know.

But for the record, I WILL KEEP telling people about it. Thankyou.

Jeckyl
10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM

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I certainly have no objection to you telling people about it per se, and I
know you are trying to help. but PLEASE do NOT claim it is guaranteed to
work, and PLEASE explain that it IS potentially dangerous and you need to
have restore points and backups done before you attempt it !!!

Just saying its a guaranteed solution is reckless and irresponsible and
someone else following your advise could get VERY upset with you and maybe
try to track you down and sue you for damages for telling them that the
method was guaranteed to work
--
Jeckyl

Jeckyl
10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM

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Why on EARTH would Adobe be trying to hide a solution to a problem that
affects their customers. That just makes absolutely no sense at all.

Hmmm .. maybe it could all make sense .. I guess one COULD think that Adobe
WANT to keep the problems there, just so that they will get people ringing
for support and charging them money. They (or certainly macromedia) do tend
to add new features rather than fix problems .. so they get more sales from
the new features and charge for support when problems occur and so get two
slices of the cake. Of course, getting a reputation of having buggy
products and poor support would not be good for Adobe, and would counteract
any advantage in deliberate bugs and hiding solutions. So ... I think you'd
need a high level of paranoia (or stupidity?) to REALLY believe that its
deliberately trying to suppress solutions.
--
Jeckyl

JDID112
10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM

Hey, Jeckyl, has YOUR flash player ever went out? If so, HOW did you fix it?
Don't think it did. I guess you don't know any possible solutions to the
problem. None that adobe hasn't addressed, anyway. And you are right, the site
was saying something about and adobe [b]SECRET[/b] , I don't know about that,
but they Damn sure had an adobe [b]FIX[/b] So why don't you take a self test.
Uninstall your flash player, try and install 9 again. If it works fine, if it
doesn't better. I am saying this (And don't misquote me like you always do)
because maybe you can test and find ways for it to work. I really didn't find
it that dangerous. Just running a file (Have fun with your misquotes). Here's
another way you could help me, Any other site where people bug out over this
flash 9 problem? Mind linking me there?

I might, be able to help a few there.

Jeckyl
10/31/2006 12:00:00 AM

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Sound like he might be replying to himself .. exactly the same style of
posting as JDID112. And of course, someone with this sort of post is not
wanting to be treated in any way seriously .. its obviously just a joke or a
fool.

Really .. the proposed 'solution' is dangerous and should not be attempted
without taking very strong precautions and ONLY as a last resort.
--
Jeckyl

Jeckyl
10/31/2006 12:08:48 AM

Its really just bad advice and highly irresponsible to recommend something
that has this potential for harm without any caveats or warnings from you.
Using the method here should ONLY be attempted by someone with a LOT of
experience in dealing with problem software installations, and who is very
conscientious about backups and restore points etc. Its really to
potentially too dangerous for the average 'joe', and to recommend it as a
guaranteed fix is just plain reckless. Perhaps you work for the company who
own the website and are trying to drum up business?
--
Jeckyl

JDID112
10/31/2006 10:15:40 PM

WOW.... Ummm.... That's horrible. Maybe it only works for some people. and
maybe you are tricking me. Did you create a restore point? Might come in handy.
I would say, "It serves you right" But it doesn't. You were simply warning me
that it could cause troublr. So, If your desktop is messed up, or if you sre
lying, that's purely on you. And I WILL stop posting the [b]guaranteed[/b] to
work thing. See ya. Oh, "It serves you right" XD

Jeckyl
11/1/2006 12:00:00 AM

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It is indeed

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Yes and No :)

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It wasn't me .. this was someone else on this forum

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Yes

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Its not me .. its some other poor soul who thought that the donglefree
solution would help.

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Thanks .. that's what I was worried about.

BTW: The thread I was quoting from was one made in this forum by dmurphy

See also posts by Original_Bald_Eagle
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I downloaded and executed the fix from donglefree and rebooted.
Tried to install flash player again, but it still doesn't display.
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upon installation it says it cannot locate
the plugins directory...It tells me to browse and locate it which, well...I
can't.
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Well I thought the donglefree flash fix was working, but NOT! I'm still
getting the same message about flash9.ocx. It seems to happen whenever it
wants too. No pattern.
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Didn't fix anything for me, all websites still ask me to install flash in
order
to view there websites or movies. My pc shows flash 9.0.16 installed in my
add/remove programs, and when I go to the download page it shows I have
9.0.16
currently installed.
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Jeckyl

Jeckyl
11/1/2006 12:20:02 AM

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No.. but I've uninstalled and reinstalled different versions of flash player
several times.

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Do you mean a fix provided by Adobe, or a fix for Adobe products? Either
way, what is your point? And it is still dangerous and can easily cause
more problems than it fixes (if it does actually fix it).

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It has worked before. And it should work for most people .. its only a
relatively small number of people that have problems.

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WTF are you on about ... misquoting? always do? Please show me all this
alleged misquoting? Or maybe its because I corrected your spelling .. it
wasn't that you said it was guaranteed to work .. you said it was
"GARUNTEED".

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I'm not sure what you actually asking for here or why. if you means you
want me to tell you other places where you can make you dangerous
unqualified recommendations, then no .. I won't do that. That would be
irresponsible, given your current posts here so far.

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Yes .. you might help a few, and hurt even more.

I'm not asking you to stop giving the links, but PLEASE be responsible and
do NOT say that it is guaranteed to fix the problem (as you have here) and
DO mention that it can cause significant problems in some cases and backups
and restore points should be set up beforehand.
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Jeckyl

Jeckyl
11/1/2006 12:22:49 AM

Btw: this is what another person has reported in this forum recently:

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While waiting for an answer I went to www.donglefree.com and downloaded
flasfix, so now my desktop is no longer working and even an update is not
fixing this, I am using my laptop to post this. I do not know how to repair
my
settings, everything is disabled.
....
can someone tell me how to fix the problem this has caused. I can no longer
get into windows xp, even through safe mode, recovery consule, or anything
and
if seems like my registry is corrupted. I am a web developer and can not
afford to lose all the work I had done. Anytime a customer needs updates, I
use the files that are on my computer.

Please help with this as soon as possible it has driven me crazy for two
days,
wish I never touched flashfix.
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Jeckyl

nannybat NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
11/1/2006 9:24:48 AM

Thanks Jeckyl for stating the obvious, I also went to the
donglefree.com and did the fix, followed instructions to the letter,
needless to say it locked up my computer. Restore point, yes did that
but couldn't even use it, couldn't use nothing. I ended up doing a
complete re-install. If it's worked for people on this forum then more
power to you but like Jeckyl said don't say its a quaranteed fix, you
would be misleading any one on this forum. If you want to take a chance
on this fix and it works for you thats great but please do so at your
own risk. I am not the only one whose computer was totally messed up
with this fix so please USE WITH CAUTION!!!

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nannybat NO[at]SPAM gmail.com
11/1/2006 9:28:03 AM

Thanks Jeckyl for stating the obvious, I also went to the
donglefree.com and did the fix, followed instructions to the letter,
needless to say it locked up my computer. Restore point, yes did that
but couldn't even use it, couldn't use nothing. I ended up doing a
complete re-install. If it's worked for people on this forum then more
power to you but like Jeckyl said don't say its a quaranteed fix, you
would be misleading any one on this forum. If you want to take a chance

on this fix and it works for you thats great but please do so at your
own risk. I am not the only one whose computer was totally messed up
with this fix so please USE WITH CAUTION!!!

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Wondering888
11/2/2006 12:00:00 AM

Ha Ha

I'm back even though I hate to do so.
Can't bear to see JDID112 whacked by the 'expert'.

Btw I'm no JDID112 in disguise.

And I'm still not telling what's the problem, keep guessing. Expert !
Want the ADOBE smart ass to get a taste of their own medicine; **Dishing out a
FREE product with no committed support, Money Face**

Ha Ha
But to make it exciting, I'm gonna let all know that JDID112's solution is a
100% certifed one.
That 's it. Not gonna say more, KEEP GUESSING Expert !!!

Ha Ha

Probably not gonna see or from me again

Good Riddance.

Jeckyl
11/2/2006 12:00:00 AM

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True .. especially after reading this last post of yours. JDID112 seems
more of a thinking person; took a little convincing to get my message
across, but once he read what I had to say about people with bad experiences
with this fix, he understood where I was coming from)

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No .. its not. You were just lucky that you were someone that it worked for
without causing any more problems.

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Couldn't have put it better myself .. what a fool.
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Jeckyl

techyie
11/2/2006 5:42:56 PM

Ok, to "outsmart the expert". This is an ADOBE fix, not a donglefree.com fix.
This was posted BY adobe, as the website says.

( http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=fb1634cb )

The website is just a mimic of this. The reset.cmd file is the same as Adobe's
with added echo lines for frontend.

Enjoy.

ohLord!!!
11/3/2006 12:00:00 AM

Ok, I had a look at this script that you claim fixes the problem. Looks
genuine enough. SubInACL is a microsoft tool. Microsoft says:

"SubInACL is a command-line tool that enables administrators to obtain
security information about files, registry keys, and services, and transfer
this information from user to user, from local or global group to group, and
from domain to domain."

From what I can tell, this fix repairs/changes some registry settings. OK
fair enough. That is why the warning. if you are going to make registry
changes, you should always warn about them. I would definetely suggest that
you do a restore point before running this script. I'm at a loss for why flash
player constantly crashes my bro's pc and I am desperate for a fix so I'm going
to try it. Worst case, I spend 2 more days rebuilding his PC yet again. I
have 4 days to get it ready... Here's hoping!!!!

Wondering888
11/3/2006 11:54:07 PM

Hi Oh Lord,

Hope I'm not too late.
DO NOT FOLLOW ADOBE's Solution !!!
If U are trying it now, STOP !!! Sure Disaster on the way !!!

BECAUSE U are willing to try this 'RISKY' method at the expense of reformat.
I'll help U.
And it's simple, just follow JDID112 & U will see light at the end of the
tunnel.

Btw ignore whatever the ADOBE expert is gonna throw at me, they dunno what's
happenning.

Bye

Note: If U had tried the ADOBE solution, I hope it work !!
If not, most probably, your system is SCREWed.

Jeckyl
11/4/2006 12:00:00 AM

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You really are a sad case.

Mtravers1
11/5/2006 10:39:26 PM

I have just tried the solution that JDID112 Posted and IT WORKED!!! I have had
this problem with my flash player for over a month and I was just about ready
to give up. I stumbled across this message board and saw the solution and
rebuttals posted and I was not sure if I wanted to try the fix. I am so glad I
did. Thank you JDID112, you have truly made my day!

Jeckyl
11/6/2006 12:00:00 AM

Glad it worked for you. Never said it never works .. but that it CAN cause
problems and it doesn't fix ALL problems.

BTW: Not sure how that version is different from what Adobe has on their web
site already
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Jeckyl

mail.elastic
11/6/2006 12:00:00 AM

mail.elastic
11/7/2006 12:00:00 AM

debgram
11/7/2006 7:07:40 PM

:confused; Well it didn't work for me. I so upset because I can't even login
to some places and even my websites. I'm using Firefox to but flash doesn't
work on that either but I can login to some places but not all. Why can't
adobe just fix the darn thing.

Jeckyl
11/8/2006 12:00:00 AM

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Fix what darn thing in particular? There are an enormous range of potential
problems, some of which are due to strange combinations of things beyond
adobes control on some peoples PC's, people not following advice re
installation. And, of course, using the fix for one particular problem will
not solve the others (despite the original posters implication that this
would fix all problems).

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Perhaps you could make a separate post describing what you've done, what O/S
and browser version you have, and what symptoms you are getting and someone
(if you're lucky) may be able to point you to the appropriate solution.
Just randomly picking something here there say it fixes a problem
(especially if you read my replies here) .. is a risky thing to do. Perhaps
it indicates that you are willing to install things without really knowing
what they are supposed to do that might have contributed to whatever-it-is
that your problem actually is (ie it may be some other software or
combination that has stuffed things up so Flash player won't work). Its
hard to tell really.
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Jeckyl

Jeckyl
11/8/2006 12:00:00 AM

So it downloads ok, install seems to work ok, the ocx goes where its
supposed to ok, and the browser knows its a plug-in ok

It "only" that it doesn't work :)

Hopefully that might ring a bell with someone else who has had the similar
problem.

Again .. it might also be worth making a separate thread for that (if you
haven't already) .. it could get lost in this thread.
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Jeckyl

debgram
11/8/2006 12:19:28 AM

Jeckyl I meant why can't adobe fix the flash problem, it won't even installed
but it shows the ocx file in my flash folder and the plugin in the browser but
will not open flash movies or flash content.. I know for a fact it's my flash
because no flash items will show up, the test page also is a no show. I have
tried version 7, 8, and 9 and neither work for me. I'm using IE6 because 7
didn't work for me when clicking on links in my Outlook Express, which I also
tried microsoft newsgroups with no help. I also did various of suggested fixes
they sent me.

As for the fix here, I did my system restore first, ran that reset thing and
tried to download flash again and nothing. So instead of rebooting I just went
and used my restore point just in case.

I have turned off (disabled) what plugins I had running and tried running IE
for several hours, used the uninstaller for flash and tried to download again
and still nothing. I do have some knowledge of what I'm doing.:wink;

Guilden_NL
11/8/2006 8:24:47 PM

As a Windoze expert, I gave even this a try - no good. I have tried every
single
"fix" on this board and nothing works. Video and no sound. Funny enough I
have the same problem with my work laptop which has no SW installed outside of
the standard load. So it's not a matter of freeware/shareware conflicting with
Flash.

I don't have a single problem on any of my five systems except no Flash sound.
All have radically different HW configs, not to mention I am running both
Vista 64 RC1 & XP SP2 on the various boxes.

Adobe support is just plain rotten. They should have a listing of all dlls
along with versions that Flash uses, as well as known app and driver conflicts.
For something that is used so widely, there is very little information
available to help the end user.

I recommend that Flash not be used; especially when there are MSoft and Apple
as well as other alternatives. Macromedia provided excellent support until the
San Jose bug generators bought them. I should add that I replace all Adobe PDF
readers with Nuance's - Adobe's is a bug ridden memory hog.

debgram
11/8/2006 8:47:34 PM

Yeah but Adobe has the only flash plugin? What about all the sites that use
flash, I can't see anything, and some must use a form of flash for thier logins
because I can login to a lot of other forums I'm in and will probably get
kicked out because I can't do my part in making apost or 2.

debgram
11/8/2006 10:07:48 PM

Jeckyl
11/9/2006 12:00:00 AM

For the player, it only needs the ocx (which needs to be properly registered
etc).. there's not a 'list' of dll's.

But some documentation of what a "correct" installation has in the registry,
folders etc would be very useful, so one can compare and see what is
different.
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Jeckyl

WindShadow75
11/9/2006 9:54:44 PM

My solution (try at your own risk):
[num]install Flash 7
install Flash 9 (without uninstalling)
find and replace all instances of Flash7.ocx with Flash9.ocx in the registry
(using regedit)
find and replace all instances of 7,0,63,0 with 9,0,16,0
add the following registry keys:[bullet]
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.8
(Default) Shockwave Flash Object
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.8\CLSID
(Default) {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9
(Default) Shockwave Flash Object
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9\CLSID
(Default) {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}[/bullet]
change the following registry key:[bullet]
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash\CurVer
(Default) ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.9
[/bullet][/num][hr]
Please let me know if you think I missed anything.:confused;

2^4
11/14/2006 6:59:28 PM

I have had issues with Flash Player 9 as well. The problem that I was having
related specifically to users with limited access to the computer in a Windows
Domain. The local administrator account could run the Flash Player with no
issues, as could Domain Admins (who are a part of the local admin group of
course).

After banging my head against the wall and finding nothing online, I
discovered that propagating the registry permissions on HKLM\Software without
changing them solved the problem.

Knowing that this couldn't be the complete solution, I narrowed it down to
HKLM\Software\Classes. When I propagate the permissions on this registry
folder without changing them, Flash Player 9 works correctly for the limited
users.

I assume that there is a specific subkey under this registry folder, but since
no permissions are being changed I'm going to leave it at that.

Hopefully that helps someone else who comes upon this thread, since this is
just about the only place I've seen online that even attempts to address the
issue.

--Ross

Luther Blisset
11/15/2006 6:00:41 PM

"JDID112" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> ha scritto nel messaggio =
news:ei3m5j$faq$1@forums.macromedia.com...
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THANKS, THANKS , thanks !!!!!

=20
finally you have given the solution to me after forty days of useless =
installations

Mario ( from Ascoli Piceno- Italy)

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