Hi.

I live on my own, so when I visit my mom wuring holidays and weekends, I use
my younger sibling's computers. Only there's a problem - for some reason, Flash
8 has stopped working on my sisters PC. I have used before on her oC, but then
it just stopped working. Nothing loaded any more. So I tried this and that, and
I just can't get it to work!
I un-installed it on my user so I could install it on hers, the main user (she
uses XP), so it would automatically also be installed on my user. But it
wouldn't. So I even went in and manually removed any flash and/or macromedia
files affiliated with Flash 8 so it could start all a-new. But it still
wouldn't!
Every time I went to the install page, it just didn't start. Nor did the 'open
file' or 'save'-options appear, nothing happened. I wrote to the support team
who, though giving me a link to where I could download the installation file to
the PC before installing, told me to go here and ask for help as they didn't
work with the players.
It downloaded alright and I was so happy! But then it errored during
installation! This popped up:

Error 1904.Module
c:\WINDOWS\System32\Macromed\Flash\Flash8.ocx failed to register. HRESULT
-2147220473. Contact your support personel.

What do I do now?? I'm starting to feel like it'll never work..

Thanks for your help in advance,
~Maria

I am having the same trouble - Contacting support was not helpful at all. Anyone out there that can help rocks!

Greetings:

Generally speaking, failures to register are due to permissions problems --
that being, your user does not have full administrative privileges, and thus
cannot install programs, such as the Flash player, that involve modifying the
registry. I would would suggest logging on as an administrator and trying
again.

Hi,

You should run the uninstaller provided in this technote:
http://www.macromedia.com/go/tn_14157. Then try to install Flash Player
again from www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer.

Also, you do need Admin rights to install.

best,
Emmy Huang
Product Manager, Flash Player
Adobe

i have been having the same problem that the rest of you have...shockwave just
wouldnt work...anyway..im no expert..but i did alot of research and tried alot
of things that different people suggested on these forums...i ended up
combining a few of them...i completly removed flash, shockwave, and internet
explorer...then i put internet explorer back on brand new...then flash..then
shockwave...and about fell over when it worked...i was so happy...i missed
playing lingo..lol..i really hope this helps you guys..if so..pass it on..maybe
we can beat this thing...