Fix your Flash Player Problems in Windows

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I'm having trouble downloading anything from "
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com"
Is there a mirror site to download the flash player? Thanks.

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I fixed the Flash Player Problem...Here's How

Okay, this worked for me. Whether it will work for you, I hope so. Thanks to Duelly Noted for much of the work, and dumb luck for the rest.
First, you need 3 user accounts for windows. When you open the start menu, on the top is the username and the icon you use. Click on the icon, and it will go to manage accounts. Now, make sure your account is set to administrator. Create 2 new accounts, and make sure BOTH are set as administrators, not users!!!
Now to make it simple, I am going to use letters to name the accounts.
A-Your main account, with the Flash Problem
B- A second account
C-The account you want to use as your new one
You need to download the Flash installer, on both A and C. Here is the link:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html
While you are logged into A and C, you must install on both accounts. Install to desktop.
In account A, download and install the uninstaller. uninstall flash player with the uninstaller above. DO NOT UNINSTALL through WINDOWS PROGRAMS! Run whatever you use to clean your account, Disk Cleanup, etc. Restart your computer. Log out of the account. Log into account B, it takes a moment to set the desktop. Then log out. Log into account C, and uninstall Flash Player from there. With the uninstaller!!! Now clean that account too. Restart again. Log out of C. Restarting helps clean the old files out. Log back into B, and transfer all your files from A to C. Then log back into B. Here's how:
Click the start Menu, click computer, then click your C: drive. click Tools, click Folder Options, click the View tab, click Show hidden files and folders, click to clear the Hide protected operating system files check box, and then click OK. Locate the user account for A, where C is the drive on which Windows is installed, and Old_Username is the name of the profile you want to copy user data from. Highlight each file and subfolder in this folder, except the following files: * Ntuser.dat * Ntuser.dat.log * Ntuser.ini. On the Edit menu, click Copy. # Locate the C:\Documents and Settings\New_Username folder, where C is the drive on which Windows XP is installed, and New_Username is the name of the user profile that you created in the "Create a New User Profile" section. # On the Edit menu, click Paste. Log off the computer, and then log on as the new user. Note You must import your e-mail messages and addresses to the new user profile before you delete the old profile. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 313055 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313055/ ) Mail folders, address book, and e-mail messages are missing after you upgrade to Microsoft Windows .
Now log on C. Then make sure EVERYTHING transferred. It worked on mine, but as far as Outlook, or Mail, your contacts should be imported, and hopefully your messages, too. Then unless you are prompted to log in there, you will have to reset your settings. If you don't know how, contact your service provider for your internet.
If everything is transferred fine, then make sure A and B are logged off. But first make sure all your files and accounts are working. Since C is administrator, simply delete A and B. Then you are left with C, and a destination for a working Flash. At this point, clean and defrag your drive.
Then install flash on C. What I figure is the Flash Problem might be code, and if you have Flash on A and C, whatever problem transfers with your files. Without 2 Flashes to go to, it just gets lost.
This worked great for me, I hope it works for you too. I pray that I didn't miss a step, but as far as physical computer problems, I am great. With software, I am still learning. But between what I have been suggested to do, and a little bit of conjecture, I now have Flash.
P.S. Adobe support is WORTHLESS on this! I contacted them, and they told me they couldn't help me without registering my product. But you can't since Flash is a free program and there is not serial number, which is the first step to register a program. Then, they followed up with 3 responses asking if my problem had been solved, or to contact them. BUT you just said you couldn't help me unless I registered. Then they considered my problem closed and that was that. I replied with exactly what they said to me, and reopened the case. You know, just for the heck of it. Then, HA HA, they sent me a survey asking how the help went for me. Oh, I enjoyed that survey indeed.

I apologize for that. Here is the problem I was having:
With two particular sites, espn.com and ign.com, though I have heard it happened on many other sites as well. On these sites, the flash content for backgrounds, advertisements, everything else would run fine. The issue was with the video content. On ESPN.COM, if I wanted to watch a larger video the length of the screen, when I loaded it the screen would freeze on a still image, and the sound would play but not the video. On the still image, a white play arrow would be static with a white circle around it. If I called up the Flash settings menu, it would be inoperative, frozen, and you could not close it. On smaller videos, the box would stay black with no picture, no sound. If I called up the Flash menu, same thing would happen, frozen. On IGN.COM, pretty much the same thing. Other Flash content would load fine, but not videos. On the link to a video, a Flash advertisement next to the video box would play, but not the video. Occasionally, an ad would play in the video screen fine, but no requested video. All black, with a frozen Flash settings menu. That's pretty much it, sorry for leaving that out. But on every other site I visited with video (ie. Youtube, gamespot, etc.) everything would run fine. But the two in question are a couple of the sites I visit most, so I was on a mission to fix it.

Flash player problem in windows 8.1

I am setting up a new Laptop as a gift and am having issues with Flash player in Internet Explorer 11, Windows 8.1. I cannot use Facebooks bulk picture uploader. I receive a notice that Flash Player is not installed. When I go to the Find Flash Player Version page the movie plays and the dynamic information box shows I have version 11.9.900.152 installed in Windows 8.1 64 bit but is shows none in browser installed field. My IE version is 11.0.9600.16438 with update version 11.0.1. I have tried every fix I could find on Windows forum; reseting IE, disabling and enabling flash add on, disabling and enabling Enhanced Protection, disabling and enabling activex filtering. What else can I try?

This is a known problem with Internet Exploder 11 and Facebook, which Microsoft has been aware of since October 18 when they released their latest "untested" browser. The pages can't recognize the browser, so they don't recognize any of the plugins, like Flash Player. So far, Microsoft has made NO indication that they have any plan to fix it soon.
Microsoft's recommendation is to use Compatibility View for affected pages, and "pretend" you're using an different browser. Trouble with that is it has seen limited success at best, and you have to individually enable it for EVERY page that has problems.
I'm not big on "pretending" so I recommend actually using another browser.
Firefox (from Mozilla)
Opera (from Opera)
Safari (from Apple)
Chrome (from Google)
ANY of those will work where IE11 won't, with the Flash Player Plug-in (For all other browsers), and Chrome doesn't even need that because it has its own Flash Player plugin built in.

Flash Player Problem in Window 8

Dear Sir/Madam,
I'd uninstalled 'Flash Player' in Window 8 accidently. What ca I do to reinstall it?
Your faithfully,
CCC

What browser? See also http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-issues-windows-8.html
[topic moved to Flash Player forum]

WHY is it that you cannot fix (completely so you never have to come back to it again) how adobe flash player works with windows 8.1?

Hi,
I would like to start a discussion on how one of the "leading" software companies in the WORLD cannot provide a better way for their software (which I assume they want everyone to use) to be used in conjunction with windows 8.1. ADOBE no longer provides support for those who don't pay to be here, they don't have a reasonably intelligent way to fix problems for non computer minded people, they want you to go through and change this setting or that (ya, I've seen the page and done the crap they tell you to do to fix the flash player so it works and... it works... for a little while then you wind up with a fkn green screen after another day or two... this is complete BS you shouldn't have to unfk things so they work every few days... you shouldn't have to deal with crap like this... I AM GOING TO USE VLC PLAYER OR SOMETHING ELSE TO TAKE CARE OF MY VIDEO PLAYER NEEDS IN MY DIFFERENT BROWSERS FROM NOW ON... YOU GUYS SUCK, YOU HAVE NO SUCH THING AS SUPPORT ANYMORE AND YOU ARE OBVIOUSLY MOVING BACK INSTEAD OF FORWARD IN THE INNOVATION DEPARTMENT!!!!)
1. this should be simple, install the software, install an update if the software is installed and up to date it should work... don't make me fiddle with all the extra bs, your the software developer why cant' you do that????
2. you tried to make it easier by making it so flash player is imbedded in my browser, congratulations you made it screwed up... think of it this way, now I have to get rid of your software to have something malleable I can deal with... your software doesn't work half the time, i'm sick and tired of dealing with it... i'm not going to deal with it anymore, I have changed the settings as directed on your help page and it worked.... for a freakin DAY, then I get green screens when I try to use it the very next day... so... I undo the changes I made the previous day... and redo the changes AGAIN and it works AGAIN.... FOR A FKN DAY!!! WTFO!!!! this is complete and total bs, your idea to make things simpler made things more complicated, more labor intensive, and more of a pain in the azz for the rest of the world... SO I am going to find a way to not have to deal with ADOBE anymore!!! screw you adobe, screw your software, screw your lack of support. you have nothing to offer me that I cannot get elsewhere with less drama, I hope your business crashes like your software... have a nice day!

One of my programs needed Flash Player and downloaded it for me! So, Problem solved. Thanks to all who are reading this. I would delete it if I could.

WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. how can i solve this problem/

WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date. how can i solve this problem/

The Flash update alerts are fake, and are intended to mislead you into installing malware and/or to steal your identity. They're the result of an attack on your router that has caused you to get false results from looking up the addresses of Internet servers. Requests sent to well-known websites such as Google and YouTube are redirected to a server controlled by the attacker.
The router's documentation should tell you how to reset it to the factory default state. Usually there's a pinhole switch somewhere in the back. It may be labeled "RESET." Insert a paper clip and press the button inside for perhaps 15 seconds, or as long as the instructions specify.
Then go through the initial setup procedure. I can't be specific, because it's different for every model. The key points are these:
1. Don't allow the router to be administered from the WAN (Internet) port, if it has that option.
2. Set a strong password to protect the router's settings: at least ten random upper- and lower-case letters and digits.Don't use the default password or any other that could be guessed.
3. If the router is wireless, or if you have a wireless access point on the network, use "WPA 2 Personal" security and set another strong password to protect the network. If the router or access point doesn't support WPA 2, it's obsolete and must be replaced.
During the time the router was compromised, you were redirected to bogus websites. If you ever connected to a secure site and got a warning from your browser that the identity of the server could not be verified, and you dismissed that warning in order to log in, assume that your credentials for the site have been stolen and that the attacker has control of the account. This warning also applies to all websites on which you saw the fake update alerts.

Hello. Recently i am facing problems in my iphone 4. I have problem in login in my Facebook account. Also, i cannot open my google page. It says update your flash player. Anyone facing smae problem?

Hello. Recently i am facing problems in my iphone 4. I have problem in login in my Facebook account. Also, i cannot open my google page. It says update your flash player. Anyone facing smae problem?

I have been using dolphin browser since long and never before it showed that flash player needs to be updated. Even in safari browser it showed flash player need to be updated. Also, when i try opening anything in google app it says network unavailble even when my internet is working fine. I cannot sing in into my Facebook app. Seriously, what is going on here? why suddenly i am facing these problems?

When did these flash player problems begin?

So, I had a computer running Win98 and IE6, which worked
great until Flash Player 8 autodownloaded about 4 months ago,
causing the beginning of an extreme headache. Several
communications with Adobe support (they eventually stopped
responding) over several weeks went nowhere None of the fixes
suggested by them, nor the ones here worked. Countless manhours led
me to think it was time to bite the bullet, buy a new computer. So,
as of two months ago I have a new computer running XP and IE6 with
SP2. I didn't know it until today, when I started having crashes,
but I have Flash Player 7.0.19.0. When i go to Adobe's Test page,
both Shockwave and Player windows show the animations (and no
crash).
On certain pages, which I believe have flash content, I get
the "IE has experienced a problem and must close" message. It
specifically mentions the flash.ocx file as the offender. It is
repeatable when visiting certain pages.
So, before I jump into the abyss of attempting to fix this, I
am wondering when these types of problems began. I have been using
Windows and IE since 1998 with no trouble until this year. I hoped
moving to a new computer would solve my Flash compatibility
problems. Could the root problem be new types of spyware, etc that
change something in the registry? Some of the fixes suggested by
Adobe were regarding keys changed in the registry. Unfortunately
those fixes didn't work (in Win98).
Finally, does anyone know if attempting to fix flash player
under XP is any easier than 98? Also, I will admit I may have
visited some sites recently that downloaded some adware, etc. Any
suggestions on cleaning that may solve the flash player problem? I
know this post is all over the map - I don't know where to begin...
Thanks in advance, Don

Hi
Which browser is giving you the error? Is it IE11?
Are you saying when you go to Adobe's website and download flash player it gives you an error?
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Fixing disabled flash player that says it is enabled

I am trying to fix my flash player. I have had some things that aren't running correctly. They say I need to update flash player. I have a Gateway Computer running windows 8.1. Browser is internet explorer. I have been getting the run around on the website as far as fixing this thing. I try to download a new flash player it says it is installed. The check flash player on your website says that it is disabled. Through manage Addons, shockwave flash object from unknown pulbisher says it is enabled. Through Settings<Safety Active X Filtering is not checked. I tried to go through control panel to uninstall and reinstall flash. It isn't there. I tried to overwrite the flash.ocx in windows/system32/macromedia/flash with another one on computer and couldn't. I don't know what to do. I did try to download a flash repair program. It said I had 728 problems but the fix button sent me to buy the program but I didn't know if that was a good idea.

Windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer have elevated the level of unworkable software that microsoft has released to heights that even THEY may never reach again, but I won't hold my breath on that one.
Your problems can be summed up with three words:
"User-Agent Strings"
That doesn't mean a lot, I'm sure, but it's the root of your problems, and Flash Player has nothing to do with it.
Microsoft "rewrote" the User-Agent Strings for the abomination they call their latest and greatest browser. User-Agent Strings are what websites use to identify the browser you're using and provide the proper content for it's browser engine, like ActiveX stuff, and Flash or HTML5 video. Thanks to the geniuses in Redmond, WA, the User-Agent Strings for IE11 (which has a Trident engine), ID it as either "Gecko" (Firefox) or "Webkit" (Chrome). Problem is: when the site the directs to the content for one of these two engines, the Trident engine in IE can't intepret it and the site then sees IE as an "unidentified" browser.
The problem with an unidentified browser is that the plug-ins in that browser aren't recognized either, so even though you're up to date, it says you need the latest Flash Player when you use IE11. YouTube... has converted to HTML5 video so if it doesn't detect Flash Player, it can display HTML5 (MP4) video which requires no plug-in to play. Facebook can't do that, because HTML5 doesn't apply to games... only video.
Microsoft has no plans to "fix" the mess thay've created because they think it's a great idea to block you out of the websites you visit.
They recommend using "Compatibility View" and pretending that you're using an older verison of IE... Problem with that is that it's seen limited success, and you have to enable it for EVERY page that has problems... individually.
I'm not big on "pretending" so I recommend actually using another browser.
Firefox (from Mozilla)
Opera (from Opera)
Safari (from Apple)
Chrome (from Google)
ANY of those will work where IE11 won't, with the Flash Player Plug-in (For all other browsers), and Chrome doesn't even need that because it has its own Flash Player plugin built in.

How do I disable the hardware acceleration in Flash player on a Windows XP machine remotely?

How do I disable the hardware acceleration in Flash player on a Windows XP machine remotely?
I have a few hundred computers running Adobe Flash Player.
The operation system is Windows XP.
They are Compaq 6005 desktop PC’s, with an inbuilt ATI radeon HD 4200 video card.
We have a persistent issue where viewing a flash video (e.g. something on youtube) causes the video card driver to crash. You are left with no video signal to the monitor. Audio continues and the computer still responds to commands. This only happens when watching flash video.
We have tried:
Updating flash plugin (numerous versions)
Updating the video card drivers (we have tried the last three video card driver versions, including the HP drivers and ATI drivers)
Updating the browsers (this problem happens with IE8/9 and Firefox10/11/12)
There seems to be two ways to work round this issue. One is to disable the video acceleration in the ‘troubleshoot’ section in the advanced part of the display settings area in windows. The other way is to start a flash video, right click, go to ‘settings’ and untick the box marked ‘Enable Hardware Acceleration’.
Doing either of these things allows the user to view flash videos with no apparent issues.
Is there a way to disable the hardware acceleration in Flash without visiting the PC? Perhaps an undocumented option in the mms.cfg file? I understand that you can use an option to skip the video card check, and so force hardware acceleration on, can you do the opposite?
Thanks in advance
Daniel.

Hi.
I have had over 200 views, and no suggestions as to how this could be fixed.
I have also posted in the general flash forum, that thread has fewer views.
If I should put this question in a different forum please let me know which one.
If what I am asking is not possible is there a mechanism for escalating this issue or requesting a feature for the next version of flash?
Thanks.

Adobe flash player problem win 8.1

I have a windows laptop with windows 8.1 installed.
When using Dreamweaver, I get the error message 'You need to upgrade your Flash Player. This is replaced by the Flash content.'
When I try to install flash player for my system, I am informed that I already have the latest version. I cannot uninstall the current version.
I also have the same problem with Adobe Flash Professional and some websites.

Der wie wo welchen Problem sein haben? Was für ein gräßlicher Post! Nicht mal mehr ordentliche Sätze kriegen die Leute zusammen. Davon abgesehen, wäre es sicher zweckdienlich, uns mal zu sagen, wo denn nun genau das Problem liegt, welcher Browser usw..
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"WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of Date. Please upgrade to continue. "

I try to go on facebook, youtube, google or Yahoo, and it's opening a page with an announce: "WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of Date. Please upgrade to continue. " I can click only "ok", then it opens a page of "FLASH PLAYER PRO", and it would me to download a trojan virus (avira recognized it) called "setup.exe.". I know that is a viral page that maybe is stealing the name of "Flash Player Pro ", but how is possible to stop it? The plug-in on the pc has the same name of "shockawave flash" ; I tried to: cancel cookies, changing antivirus, istalling flash player 13 from the official site, cancelling every adobe flash player of the pc. Blocking the site is unusefull because they have'nt an IP address and they steal the IP address of the site you choose. I've a Windows 7 professional 32 bit and I try with: Firefox, Chroome, Opera, Explorer. Nothing. Does anybody knows how can I stop it?
I wrote this post in "Installing flash player" because maybe is an installation problem... I don't know.
Thank you!!

There is no such thing as "Flash Player PRO". Never has been. Never will be.
What you're seeing is a result of a hack into your router.
Hackers have hacked 300000+ wireless routers, Check yours NOW!

WARNING! Your Flash Player may be out of date.

I keep getting this popup when using Firefox: "WARNING! your flash player may be out of date." I can tell it's phishing and I've never had this problem before. How can I get this to stop when using Firefox? It doesn't happen with IE.

Thank you jscher2000 for your help. My issues started around the time that I made a mistake, about a week or so ago. I fell for a "get free stuff for taking a survey" trick. A momentary lapse in sanity, sorry. I have tried emsisoft malware scanner, and it initially found and quarantined something called Gen%3aTrojan.Heur.Hype.luX%40aGKciof (B) - about which I could find no information.
I have since done two deep (and painfully slow) scans with emsisoft, and it now says no threats are detected. But downloader and flash update intrusions continue to happen, only in firefox, not in chrome or IE. Like fettermann, I get one of two different interruptions. I haven't taken a screen snip of the other one, sorry. I have also done the firefox reset to default, which did not help. I think uninstall and reinstall would essentially do the same and likewise not help.
I am gratefull to know the programs listed above are freeware. I will invest the time to go through them all, as soon as possible.
I do not have very many plugins, and all of them I have had for anywhere from several months to more than a year, and they hadn't caused issues before. (I pretty much think it was the survey scam.) I have seven: silverlight (for netflix), adobe flash, hulu desktop (which I never use but I think was included either in firefox or on my pc at purchase), MS Office 2010, Windows Live Photo Gallery (also a default I think), Google Update and iTunes Application Detector.
Hulu is the only one I would disable and consider unneeded. And as it's been there all along and I've never used it, not sure how it could be the source...?
I will let the forum know results after I get through the list of malware scanners.
Again, thanks very much to all for the info and advice.

Help. I Can't Get Flash Player Installed on Windows 7 32 bit. The subinacl permissions need to be corrected. How Do I Do This?

Help. I Can't Get Flash Player Installed on Windows 7 32 bit. The subinacl permissions need to be corrected. How Do I Do This? The error message says I do not have sufficient permissions to install flash player. I have full administrative permissions.

Hi Paul,
Instructions (including video) for resetting permissions using SubInACL are available here How do I fix Windows permission problems with Flash Player?.
Maria

You see this message either because your Flash Player is outdated or because you disabled JavaScript in your browser.

When going to several sites that play videos I get the following error on the page instead of the video. You see this message either because your Flash Player is outdated or because you disabled JavaScript in your browser.

Clear the cache and the cookies from sites that cause problems.
"Clear the Cache":
* Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): "Clear Now"
"Remove Cookies" from sites causing problems:
* Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: "Show Cookies"
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

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