Flash player with Windows 7 Fixed

Hey everyone. I am thourougly frusturated. For the past few days I have delt with nothing short of a night mare. Everytime I have attempted to load a website with flash included, i.e. youtube, facebook games, important stuff, my internet browser would crash. I attempted a few things, first i tried that one downloadable fix, didnt work for me. I tried uninstalling and installing over and over again. No dice. I then tried a system restore to a time when flash did effing work. That worked for about a day. then CRASH! But I found a way to fix whatever issue there is.
Here is what I did:
Uninstall Flash player through the uninstall programs screen Then,
Under the win7 startup search thing go to msconfig.
     Click the selective startup and clear the "Load startup items" box
     Go to the services tab and click the "hide all Microsoft services"
     Click "disable all"
     Finally, Click Ok and then Restart.
     Go to whatever browser you want to use and download flash player.
     Restart your internet browser and try some flash things like youtube
If this works then there is an issue between an application on your computer and flash, i think my issue is somewhere between Mcafee and flash.
     Go back to msconfig and selcte the services you want to enable again. If flash no longer works, go through one by one to find the one with the issue.
I hope this helps someone!

Hi Mck, I just looked at your thread to see what had been fixed. Now I am not speaking for anyone other than myself and thinking if I would do that. Not saying anything that you did was right or wrong, don't misunderstand. Just for me I would think it risky to disable all Microsoft services. Did you know that it wasn't?
Just trying to understand what you did. Is this similar to Safe Mode?
After disabling, then you had to know what to enable afterwards, right?
Your statement about an application issue between McAfee and Flash is most informative. It has come to my attention this past week that is definitely the issue.  Even if you disable McAfee prior to Uninstalling/Installing, after each Reboot
and that is needed, McAfee automatically enables itself. Since McAfee is fully enabled and probably with a Firewall when you try to Install, it prevents it. Norton has a timer that one sets when trying to Uninstall/Install, so I guess one needs to be very fast or it too will automatically enable itself:-) Actually I've done considerable researching on McAfee and Norton in order to understand how their programs work. This is for the simple reason to help those here on the Flash Forum that have so many problems installing Flash Player if they use either one of those.
I have read on the Norton forum for example that even if one disables certain compoments using the icon in the system tray, other components continue to run in the background.
Whenever you have time to respond is fine, no rush. Glad you have FP working tho.
Regards,
eidnolb

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