This is really crazy. After downloading Flash Player 7 and its active x
control I received a message "Update Available" asked if I wanted to update
said yes . Flash Player 8 downloaded and works fine. Now try to figure that
out.

Yeah I had an update from ActiveX 7 work but than a day later it stopped
working again for no apparent reason on many sites. So hopefully it stays
working for you. But a new install of Flashplayer 8 with no prior version of
flashplayer seems to always fail.

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Except sites that require Flash Player 8 of course. This is not really a
solution for Flash 8 player having problems.
--
Jeckyl

Well mine lasted one day only after upgrade to 8 than it doesn't work again.
So I'll stick with the flashplayer 7 activeX instead of uninstalling 8 than
reinstalling 7 I decided just to overwrite the activeX portion by installing
just the ActiveX for 7. That way 8 should still be working for Firefox but 7
is the active one in 8. Just seems ActiveX 8 is just plain crap release by
Macromedia and they should go back to what worked in Flash 7.

Mine is still working. However, yesterday I went to My Space .com, went to
view a video I got the same old message " You need Flash 8 to view" So i hit
the upgrade button downloaded Flash 8 AGAIN along with ActiveX Control and it
worked.

I went to Windows, System 32, and found the Macromedia folder. In the folder
it shows both Flash 7 and 8 with their respective Active X control. I didn't
delete Flash 7 when downloaded lash 8. Now all the sites that were giving me
a problem are working.

However, I agree with you that there is something wrong with the Flash 8
program. With all the people with IE 6 having the
the same problem it has to be Flash 8.

If this goes wacky again 'll let you know. I hope somebody from Macromedia
reads the boards and realize they have a problem. I still think its in the
Active X Control.

I am going to test something out. I too went to the flash.ocx and I
unregistered this file.. didn't delete it just unregistered it. I than
reregistered flash8a.ocx and I will see what the results are.

Well it seemed the last method worked for good.

1. Uninstalled 8
2. Reinstalled Flash Activex 7
3. Upgraded to Flash 8
4. Unregistered the flash.ocx
5. reregistered flash8a.ocx

for those that don't know how to register.. in dos window in the flash
directory..

regsvr32 -u flash.ocx (unregisters flash7)
regsvr32 flash8a.ocx (registers flash8)

I suspect something might be missing in the flash8 install since installing to
8 directly fails everytime to stay working.