Shockwave Player malfunction

Shockwave Player is installed and up to date, in fact, I've uninstalled and reinstalled several times to try and resolve the issue. I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium, Firefox and/or IE I've tried both and it works with neither one. I cannot open any game, including the solitaire games that came loaded in 'Windows. To read Google news is a challenge, each time I try to open an article, hence page, I get the error message: "Shockwave player may be busy or may have stopped working", when I click 'stop' I can then for a few seconds scroll to read the article then the error message returns so I have to continually repeat the procedure. How do I fix this problem to alleviate frustration levels?

Are you CERTAIN the error message says
"Shockwave player may be busy or may have stopped working"
and not "Shockwave Flash may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the plug now, or you can continue to see if the plugin will complete." If the latter then you should search before asking your question on a forum for the Flash Player

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