Download/Install FlashPlayer 10 fails

Question

I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING TO DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL
FLASHPLAYER 10 AND/OR ANY NEW FLASHPLAYER! I CANNOT GET INTO ANY
SITE REQUIRING FLASHPLAYER 10 AND I CANNOT INSTALL OR EVEN DOWNLOAD
IT FROM ANY OF THE FREE GET FLASH ICONS ON THE SITES OR FROM
ADOBE!!! I HAVE INSTALLED AND UNINSTALLED PREVIOUS VERSIONS, ACTIVE
X'S, CHANGED SECURITY AND PRIVACY SETTNGS--NOTHING WORKS! I AM
RIPPING MY HAIR OUT!!

Answer 1

That is exactly what happened to me. I was finally able to
reinstall when the FP screens began to display everything- as my
post above. I thought everything was ok, but as it turns out,
videos do not work anything like as well as they did before it
crashed. I can't get full screen; if I try from Hulu, I get a
scrambled image. I can't even watch a video from Fancast (comcas't
site). From there, I can't get a full screen as needed to get a
complete image. Plus, with Fancast, for some reason now I have a
problem with such slow buffering as to make it impossible- about
like you would get with a fast dial up. I did not have any of these
problems before. I am debating whether it woould be worth the risk
to try reinstalling. BTW, I did clear history etc, turn off anti
virus and pop up blocker- I had been doing that all along. I did
nothing differently when the missing elements on the FP screens
suddenly appeared. I am afraid if I uninstalled FP, the Adobe
screens might go kablooey again and I would be left with nothing. I
was planning on watching a movie sometime this weekend, if I get a
chance- maybe I will wait until a weekday when I wont be spending
much leisure time anyhow. Too bad to have so little support with
what really seems to be major flaws in the adobe product. :Has
anyone figured out what has been causing those spontaneous
crashes?