After 2 weeks of extreme frustration trying absolutely everything and tearing
out what little hair I had left I finally managed to get flash 9 working. What
you need to do is run the downloadable adobe flash uninstaller and then go to
the website below and download the "standalone" flash 9 installer. All will be
ok after that, and you can finally view videos in youtube.

http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

note, this is not a standalone flash player, it is the standalone installer for
activex installer for IE (flash9b.ocx) and solves the problem of the web-based
flash9 installation, which doesnt work.

Make sure your have closed as many programs as possible before installing.

It works! watch flash and youtube in IE7 again!

[i]Finally[/i]
I have been looking for this for some time now.

Thank you very much :-)

Regards

THANK YOU! I to was having the same problem with Flash Player in VISTA. Your
solution worked! I also uninstalled Shockwave player and installed the "Stand
Alone Version." I installed both players using Full Administrator rights.

johndiablo: THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I have been attempting to fix
the same problem for over a month. I tried your suggestion and it worked
instantly. I wonder what caused the problem to begin with? I appreciate you
sharing your solution.

Non IE users could give this link ago. It worked for my firefox browser.

http://www.filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_firefox/

note that the IE7 flash standalone on this site didnt work for me and I had to
use the site I mentioned at the start of this topic.

You are the KING!!! Why can't Adobe put this on their own stupid website? I
installed/uninstalled/screwed with registry a dozen times to no avail. I
specifically tried to find a version of Flash that I could download a file and
install separately and couldn't find it on their website. This worked in 30
seconds. Awesome. Adobe should fire their bum support people and send their
salary to you!!!!

:smile;
Thanks johndiablo, you have solved my problems! Until this fix, I was only
able to get flash to work on one out of my three profiles on XP home. Now it
works on all three. I tried all the other stuff, messing with the registry, un
and re installing many times with no luck. I wonder what caused all this
trouble for us in the first place...

thanks for the link johndiablo. i wanna watch some american idol videos and
i've been downloading Flash player like crazy and nothing seem to work. i don't
nkow if its the fact that i'm in a different country but it doesn't work with
videos i wanna watch. Is there anything you could suggest dear greatness ..lol

THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! My Flash Player stopped working when I upgraded to IE7
and after getting a response from Abobe Support that didn't work and reopening
my support case and waiting more than 6 weeks and still no response from them -
my kids were going mad as their favorite web sites no longer worked. Your fix
worked perfectly. I had tried everything and was totally going nuts. Your are
truly the best!!! Thanks so much for sharing the fix for this.

Thanks to johndiablo for the IE answer to this problem. I eventually found
Flash 7 on this site for Netscape (as per my other thread), but didn't realise
it was called Macromedia Flash... rather than Adobe Flash... which was the
problem as it turned out, but once I ran the uninstaller and then installed
Flash 7 and it all worked in the end.

I then tried the IE Flash 9 standalone installer program, as mentioned by
johndiablo, and it works for IE so I can view Flash 9 files there and Flash 7
in Netscape so I have the best of both worlds.

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It is unbeleivable that Adobe could not fix this problem?????????

:camera;
Thanks johndiablo.
Just tried your solution and it worked perfectly! I saved the uninstall to the
desktop then saved the install from softwarepatch.com also to the desktop.
Closed all programs,uninstalled flash 9 then re-installed it. Then went to this
page to test it
http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/
works great!

thankyou thankyou thankyou,the hassle i've had but solved at last,thought it
was a quicktime issue because i kept getting a Q with a question mark in
it,there's a few folk on the quicktime forums with the same problem.Now my son
can finally go to tamagotchi town!.Once again thankyou

I've tried this several times with no success.
Still cannot view Flash anywhere including Adobe's website.

Interestingly, if I turn off UAC, everything works fine which implies a
problem with permissions.

Any clues would be nice. Thanks.

Thank you for your help with this really bad problem however, the fix has not
worked for me :sad; I am pulling the rest of my hair out now as I type this. I
have uninstalled and reinstalled the stand alone just like you said but I still
get the message that I do not have the adobe flash installed on my computer.
What is going on????

try closing all programs , unstall flash player using adobe's uninstaller. run
regedit and delete flashplayer key in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/MACROMEDIA

Uninstall your current java, then restart. goto java.com and download latest
java - 1-5-011 was mine. (http://www.java.com/en/download/index.jsp) Then
close and reopen IE. check in tools/internet options/advanced that a tick is
in under the sun java heading - Use JRE for 1-5-011 applet, and under
microsoft VM - enable JIT compiler is ticked.

IE, under tools/internet options/programs manage addons and go through all the
different menus in the show scroll window and ensure all java 1-5-011 activex
plugins and enabled.

goto my link and download the standalone flash installer and run it.

if this doesnt work, could try running crapcleaner after unstalling flash and
java then try doing the rest of the procedures.. If that doesnt work, who
knows :-)

Hello johndiablo,

Any idea or possible solution to workaround this below would be highly
appreciated. I am currently going mad with this issue. God help us all with
windows !!!

Below is description of my machine:


OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name VIVAN1
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP Compaq nc6320
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
Processor x86 Family 6 Model 14 Stepping 8 GenuineIntel ~1828 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard 68YDU Ver. F.0B, 12/15/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.4
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2765 (xpsp.050928-1517)"
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 115.53 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 2.39 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Name SoundMAX Integrated Digital HD Audio
Manufacturer Analog Devices
Status OK
PNP Device ID
HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_11D4&DEV_1981&SUBSYS_103C30AA&REV_1002\4&2A4C52EC&0&0001
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\adihdaud.sys (5.10.01.4321 built by:
WinDDK, 172.00 KB (176,128 bytes), 2/28/2006 14:36)

Name USB Audio Device
Manufacturer (Generic USB Audio)
Status OK
PNP Device ID USB\VID_062A&PID_9004&MI_00\6&1D2D687&0&0000
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\usbaudio.sys (5.1.2600.2180
(xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158), 57.88 KB (59,264 bytes), 1/9/2007 18:45)

Name Bluetooth Audio
Manufacturer WIDCOMM
Status OK
PNP Device ID
{95C7A0A0-3094-11D7-A202-00508B9D7D5A}\BTAUDIO\1&30EE4AD&0&1000000030000
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\btaudio.sys (4.0.1.3300, 392.25 KB (401,664
bytes), 1/18/2006 19:09)

Name Bluetooth High Quality Audio
Manufacturer WIDCOMM
Status OK
PNP Device ID
{95C7A0A0-3094-11D7-A202-00508B9D7D5A}\BTWAUDIO\1&30EE4AD&0&1000000030001
Driver c:\windows\system32\drivers\btaudio.sys (4.0.1.3300, 392.25 KB (401,664
bytes), 1/18/2006 19:09)


Also, I have WMP, Real Player and Quick Time installed and Flash Player 9 as
well. Well, your post helped me and gave me an idea where to look in my machine
for the problem and I discovered these facts:

1. My speakers are working fine
2. My mic's are working fine
3. My sound card and driver works fine SoundMAX HD Audio
4. All my players work fine except audio when playing FP9
5. My windows sound recorder does not work at all
6. I cannot play MIDI files by default Microsoft Synth and I have to use Quick
Time to play it.
7. I cannot play my default ( and other themes ) system sounds
8. Also, I can see Microsoft GS wavetable SW Synth when setting Audio
Properties but after apply it disappears again.
9. My all drivers are updated and machine as well.

So, I did realize that problem is in default Microsoft Windows MIDI Synth like
you also found it but after spending hours on the forums and use nets I
couldn't find any solution to work around this problem except to reinstall my
windows. I also can confirm that this problem have nothing to do with different
codec installed like AC3, ffdshow etc.

Furthermore, there is no any help on HP Support site for this kind of problem.

SO, IF I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO FIND WORKAROUND SOLUTION I WILL BE FORCED TO
REINSTALL MY WINDOWS AND HAVE AT LEAST 8 HOURS OF "FUN" TO SET UP ALL THE STUFF
I HAVE NOW ON MY COMPUTER !!! SOMETIMES I REALLY DO HATE WINDOWS AND THINKING
TO SWITCH FOR A LINUX !!!

:mad; & :shocked; &

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It's working now.

For those who couldn't get it to work after downloading the standalone, keep
faith. Follow the java steps and keep restarting and it will be back soon. This
is a hell of a problem and I don't know why it's affecting SO MANY PEOPLE.

Well, I did reinstall my Windows and now everything works fine. Only thing now
that I can suspect is that maybe the problem was in registry. Anyway, this
issue will stay mistery for me. God help us all with Microsoft !

HELP!!! I've been trying all of these steps over and over and it is still not
working. I updated my Java, I uninstalled and reinstalled Flash so many
times. I've restarted my computer after each update, to no avail. Is there
anything else I should be doing? This is driving me nuts!!!! --What an awful
program---!!!!

yes, it's certainly a nightmare, maybe macromedia put some secret nobble code
in it when adobe took over. Well for your answer all I can suggest is after
uninstalling flash and java, also uninstall IE7 then run crapcleaner, reinstall
IE7 and then java, then flash. If all else fails maybe a system reinstall is
the only answer.

good luck

Quick question for you guys, there appears to be a couple of problems for this
and Im trying to narrow it down. So far I've only come up with about 3
possible actual causes.

#1 Wavemapper was uninstalled
#2 Registry Key corrupt or preventing something (CC cleaner fixed this for me
on two systems on two OS's, but some reason appears to have occured when I
installed Firefox and its flavor of the Flash player)
#3 Missing codecs (like DivX, fixed with K-Lite codec pack)

Im thinking the standalone player may not use the same registry key or have
the same problems as the ActiveX so the solution, but it doesnt make too much
sense if Firefox has its own flash installer but the problem (for me at least)
occured on both Firefox and IE once it started happening.

Has anyone else seen any solid patterns to these problems?

:grin;

Dear John:
Wonderful solution! It was the needle in the hay stack ( all this other stuff
on the Adobe site that just didn't work). Thank you! If you chose to share
with us what you do for a living, I will send business your way if I can.
Regards, Bob Wilson (consultwil@aol.com)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's only been 3 days of frustration for me but FINALLY I found your post and
it worked.

I wonder how this happened in the first place? I had been using YouTube for
months and then 3 days ago it failed.

Any ideas?

I can't watch any movies on youtube, it says: Hello, you either have JavaScript
turned off or an old version of Macromedia's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash
player.
...I''ve uninstalled both Java and Flash Player and installed them again(the
standalone for flash 9) and restarted the computer, but it still doesn't
work..And when I press the "get the latest Flash player" link, the adobe site
appears, but there's no "install now"-button:S

Please help...

:frown; This didn't work for me either. I'm just loading up my new machine and
there are very few programs on it. Are any of you guys that are still having
problems running a NVIDIA GeForce 3 video card? Another forum suggested a
driver incompatibility.

this worked great, BUT everytime my computer boots up, I lose it and have to do it again.

well how are you supposed to do it without administrative privilages?! ... thats my only problem! ... my computer is really stupid and extremely difficult to manage. ... so how is flash possible without any admin rights?

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