Flash player won't start

Hey all I hope someone can help, I have flash player 10 installed but it is installed on a seperate drive to my operating system, I wish to view content on the web and I think it is looking for flash in a different location than where I have it installed, as it keeps saying please install Flash player, the same thing happens when I try to watch movie trailers on Apple.com, is there a way of setting the default location of both flash player and quick time??.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I am running windows 7 64bit.
Thank you all.
Chris

Hi oregon, That link is for Chrome only. If you are having an issue with any other browser that has Flash Player Installed in, then the check would be somewhat different.
Thanks,
eidnolb

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