Flash player causes IE7 to crash

I use Win XP Home with SP2 and IE7, on a 2 week old PC (so
both were OEM loaded).
I have installed Flash Player in order to get a decent
experience from websites.
On one site - and one site only - anything from 15 to 120
seconds after the home page has loaded, I get a message that "IE
has encountered a problem and needs to close". By sending an error
report to M/Soft and then getting the message box with a 'More
Information' option, every time this says that it is Flash Player
that has caused the crash.
I am directed to the Macromedia/Adobe site to update Falsh -
but I already have the latest verison installed. My version in the
Windows/System32/Macromedia/Flash directory is Flash9e.ocx.
Based on tips seen elsewhere, I have even added a copy of
this in the same directory and renamed it as Flash.ocx.
Further more, I have uninstalled (using the Adobe/Macromedia
special uninstaller) and then re-installed (every time downloading
a new copy of Flash from Adobe and/or Macromedia) at least 6 times
in the last 10 days, each installation being clean, with no
programmes running and no anti-virus or anti-spyware software
running at all.
This is driving me absoutely potty, as no-one can offer any
help - not Adobe e-mail Technical Support, not MIcrosoft, not the
PC supplier, not the wesbite where the problem is, no-one.
Yet it is a real problem but no-one is prepared to take
ownership of it.
Has anyone in the communities got any ideas as to how to
solve this?
Many thanks
bolehill
PS: Neither Flash nor IE7 were upgrade installations - they
were installed as new.

quote:
Originally posted by:
bolehill
Hi ******
Well, it looks like I have fixed the problem too, but not
quite in the same way as you did - although what you suggested led
me there eventually.
Having read your message, I downloaded the Device Cleaner
software and then read the ReadMe file that came with it. I don't
have either NTI or nvidia drivers for my graphics card, but I have
an Intel Express Chipset.
So on reading the file, I just wondered if my Display Adapter
driver needing updating, so I went via My Computer; Mange; Device
Manager; expanded the Display Adapter and right clicked the
resulting driver. From this menu, I went to Properties and then the
Driver tab of this. I then selected Update Driver and let Windows
do its stuff, allowing it to search for an updated driver. Hey
presto, it found one somewhere on the system (it definitley did not
go to the Internet), and, having rebooted after the driver update
(as required by the system), I can now access the website that
caused the problems without IE7 closing straight away.
So it appears that the iesue is around a conflict between the
main dispaly adapter drivers and Flash and the way round this is to
make sure that the display adapter driver is 110% up-to-date (and
in your case, also that there is no trace left of the old driver).
Maybe this will help others....?
Cheers
Bolehill
Thanks, bolehill. My friend was having the same problem and
pointed her to this thread. Says I was a miracle worker but told
her I was just a good researcher. You did all the job. Thanks.

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