Flash9.ocx add-on errors

Question

I've been getting alot of these add-on errors lately and it
crashes IE. I've tried reinstalling flash but it hasn't helped. Is
there anything I can do other than disabling the add-on? I would
really appreciate any advice.

Answer 1

If you got an error message that says there has been a
problem in the Flash9.ocx, here is how to fix things...
The possible solutions are:
1) update your video drivers. For instance, with a video card
with NVIDIA graphical processor, you can use this address:
http://www.nvidia.com/content/drivers/drivers.asp
Then see if you get the error again
2) If the problem is still there, you'll have to come back to
an earlier version of the flash player. Here is how it is supposed
to be done when everything goes well:
uninstall Flash Player 9 using:
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/8/uninstall_flash_player.exe
then re-install Flash Player 8 or 7 using:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp8_archive.zip
3) if the uninstallation fails, here is the manual way to do
achieve a similar result but that should always work:
Go in the following folder:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
Change the name of Flash9.ocx file into _Flash9.ocx (be sure
IE is closed first)
Dowload this zipped file:
http://www.robostrike.com/pub/utils/Flash9.zip
unzip the file and place it in the above folder,
name it Flash9.ocx (the file is in fact a copy of Flash8a.ocx
and this way, it will be used instead of the bugged version 9)
Restart Internet Explorer => congratulation you are now
back in version 8 and everything should run perfectly fine!
As for my computer: problem solved!