Flash & Windows Vista

Hello:
I have a laptop with Vista Home Premium and have tried to
install the latest version of Flash. It will work once I do the
initial install, but if I shut down my laptop and later go back to
a flash enabled page, I get a message that I need to download the
latest version of Flash player.
I have tried numerous things, such as manually installing
using the Flash installer, deleting registry keys and
re-installing, still nothing. Any help any one can provide will be
appreciated.
Erika

Have you tried a clean uninstall first? Go to the Run prompt,
and Browse to the Macromed/Flash folder. Select the
uninstall_activeX program, then in the Run prompt add " /clean"
with a space after the exe and no space between clean and /. Try
that and then go back to that folder and right click the
FlashUtil9x.exe program and Run as Admin to install. Make sure no
browsers are open and you may want to reboot after you uninstall,
just to be safe. See if that holds, good luck.

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nervous is not how i would describe it - more like confused
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> years and do not have much complaints but the referral
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If you can not see the moving sphere: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/155/tn_15507.html
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