Flash Player 10.1 is not fully active after over 50 uninstalls and reinstalls.

Question

     About 2 weeks ago I started noticing this. I would load up Facebook games and it would take forever. Then, once it did finally load the images were gone and those strange java encoded images were in their place instead. My report log has no indication of crashes during this time, however in the last week I have had a getPlus+R stopped working, a GfxUI APPCRASH, and an HP Advisor APPCRASH. Also been getting many errors. The most recent when trying to reinstall Adobe DLM, I got "Firefox could not install at http://platform.adobe.com/NOS/getPlusPlus/1.6/gp.xpi download error 228".
     When I do get to a facebook game it says that I do not have the updated version of the flash player, so I go and uninstall it, restart my computer, reinstall it, restart my computer and still get it. I have done this over 50 times and counting. I keep doing this because every once in a while the flash player does not act up for a couple hours, usually when I install a new browser to sort of "trick" it, I guess. It catches on though...cause today's browser was Opera and it worked great for about 2 hours, earlier in the week I tried safari with some success for about 4 hours. I'm gonna run out of browser options and my time with this trick only seems to get less and less hours from each time I do it.  I have cleared my cache hundreds of times during this process as well. I really do not understand how to check or set the flash player settings though. I would think that they would have a safe default though, because I never installed any adobe products when I got the computer, so I assume they came preinstalled and set properly. Also when I bought this laptop a couple months ago, I got that stupid Norton thing which would tell me to activate it every time I logged on so I said hell with it and activated the trial version just to make it go away. I did this about a week and a half ago and it seems that this is when everything really started to fall apart. There are so many things I have tried that I cannot even begin to list them all. I have downloaded so many other Adobe trials to see if they'll fix the problem, but I don't really even know how to use them or what they are really for. I should mention that I am using Windows 7 and connecting via wifi. I can browse the internet with no problems and watch youtube videos with no problems as well. For the most part, just those facebook games are affected by this. I think it killed some of my drivers though, because I went and downloaded a bunch of intel drivers and one actually flashed "GfxUI" for a moment while it was installing, and that was one of the crashes I got. I really don't know where else to go from here. I have Internet explorer but rarely use it. Kind of hopeless here. I really don't expect any possible solutions to this since no one else seems to be having the same problems. Most people can just uninstall it and reinstall it for it to be fixed in most forums. Well, I guess I'll check back and see if anyone has an answer before I take my computer back under it's supposed warranty.

Answer 1

Hi a, Glad you removed Norton. On Skype, go to Tools & Manage add ons. Find any add ons that pertain to
Skype and Disable them. Once these problems have been solved then you can always enable any that have been disabled.
Anytime you lose an Internet connection you will receive those kind of errors. Wireless connections are subject to a loss of signal. I would contact your Carrier and report them.
Any site or game that tells you to update Flash Player, ignore. You did the right thing going to Youtube. If that works, then disregard anything to the contrary. That site is having a problem, not you. Take care not to disrupt your Flash Player Installation!!
On Avast not being able to update would most likely be due to the loss of signal. That Avast updated 3 times is not unusual. That is just a sign of additional risks. I had Avast and during some periods that was done also. No problem.
While you are still in the process of removing programs and troubleshooting, if there are any add ons/plug-ins/extensions that are causing an issue, I would disable them. Once you have your troubleshooting done, then see about them.
On McAfee, didn't that Install with FP at one time? I think you removed that as I recall. You can refer to the instructions I gave you to remove it and make sure it is not there.
Thanks,
eidnolb