Problems With "Flash Player"

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:52 pm

When I access many sites, I get this message:

"This content requires Macromedia Flash Player". I then hit the button to download the Flash Player.

I go to the download page, hit "download now"...and am told it is successfully installed.

When I return to the page, I still get the "This content requires Macromedia Flash Player" message.

What is going on? Why is my Explorer not recognize that I downloaded it? Any advice/suggestions?

Jake · Post by **Jake** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 11:49 pm

Did you restart your computer after installing?

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:26 am

Jake wrote:Did you restart your computer after installing?

I did. Didn't work.

I went to this other site and downloaded the Flash Player from a mirror site. Seems to be working now. Can't explain why...just is.

Go figure.

Cappster · Post by **Cappster** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:03 am

Its always good to have the latest flash player from adobe and the latest version of java. If you don't, you could have issues viewing websites. Its also good to have the latest adobe reader.

None of the above require a restart but it is good practice that if your having a problem with your machine to restart.

ANT7088 · Post by **ANT7088** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:12 am

Is this were you got it from??? If not get it from here!

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download ... kwaveFlash

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:54 am

ANT7088 wrote:Is this were you got it from??? If not get it from here!

http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download ... kwaveFlash

That's where I tried to get it originally. Didn't work.

Cappster · Post by **Cappster** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:32 pm

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/

on this page you will see two versions of flash player. One is flash player 9 and the other is shockwave. There is a difference. I couldn't tell you what it is but I can tell you from experience that sites that need shockwave won't run if you don't have this specific player even if you do have the regular flash player.

ANT7088 · Post by **ANT7088** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 1:41 pm

Did you read this???? There's a topic on your problem, maybe this will help (if you haven't tried it yet).

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgeb ... d=tn_15511

I'd delete all (free) Adobe products from my PC, Restart, then re-download all of them & see what happens......it won't hurt.

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:16 pm

I deleted the current version of Flash Player I had installed and re-installed it. Seemed to work.

Justice Hog · Post by **Justice Hog** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:52 pm

Here's a kicker. I had flash player working the other day. Today when I sign in to my PC, I get the same error message - I need to install it again.

What the heck is goin' on?!?!?!

InsaneBoost · Post by **InsaneBoost** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 4:09 pm

Hope this works for you all, a fair amount of people said when they uninstalled Flash 9, and reinstalled Flash 8, it worked.

So here we go

Link to Uninstall Flash 9:

http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flas ... player.exe

Link to Install Flash 8:

http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/fl ... rchive.zip