Help with annoying download sign!Help please!!

Question

Ok so I tried going to this site where it requires me to
download the latest version of Macromedia Player and it gives me a
link to this site. When I click on the link, I click the 'Download'
button and then very quickly, it says it was succesfully installed
onto my computer. I go check Control Panel--->Add/Remove
programs and there's no newer verson of Macromedia Player and I
know this because when I return back to the site, it still says I
need to download the lastest verson! I tried almost everything I
could think of so now I'm turning to you people for help! I also
when to several other sites which also told me the same thing and
linked me right back here! So it's getting really frustrating
because I've clicked on the download button several times and it
still says I have the Macromedia Flash Player (latest version) on
my computer!
This is the page that keeps telling me this:
so
call "Succesful Download"
Can somebody tell me why it says I already have the lastest
version when I don't and how can I solve this problem?
If ANYBODY had ANY type of solution or suggestion ALL WOULD
BE APPRECIATED!! please i am so desperate!
Email me here!! All
help is appreciated!!

Answer 1

Salutations kiwi_sweet, tu nous disais :
> sry but that doesn't really help me because the website
i try to go
> to says i need the lastest macromedia player an dwhen i
try to
> download it, it says i have it and so i return to that
website's
> homepage and it says again I still don't have it!!
please anymore
> suggestions?
Yep,
Two main possibilities :
1)
There is a "kill bit" on the flash'activex element :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \SOFTWARE \Microsoft \Internet Explorer
\ActiveX Compatibility\
...{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}\
If "Compatibility Flags" value is hex:400 (dec:1024), then
flash activex
use is denied in I.E. To un lock, just delete this value. (or
set to "0")
2)
Your FP installation is damaged and you can't repair because
the
Flash registry keys are locked.
Typically, the symptoms are exactly what you described.
(test on www.youtube.com : if you can't see video...)
<copy-paste mode=on>
for each of the 4 keys in
http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=624850b5
(don't use [advanced] authorization stuff) :
1) i deleted "everyone" line (to clear rights)
2) i added "everyone"
3) i allowed "read" for "everyone" (don't touch to deny, nor
allow write)
the result (in french) :
http://cjoint.com/?etsyFBJyxd
And now i registered flash8b.ocx (or flash8a.ocx if 8b
doesn't exists) like this :
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash8b.ocx
<copy-paste mode=off>
I hope this helps
Cheers
~Jean-Marc~
http://docxp.mvps.org
http://msmvps.com/blogs/docxp/