When I try and view a downloaded clip in IE the screen opens but nothing happens

Question

When try and view a downloaded shckwave object in IE a blank screen appears
and the little wheel goes round and round but the clip does not play

Answer 1

Hi Andrew and Happy New Year to you too. Sometimes I get too busy:-)  Thanks for the information.
Sometimes the Flash Player 10 ActiveX will install and be listed in the Add/Remove, but for some reason or the other,
the Shockwave Flash Object, the ActiveX Control will not be installed in the browser add ons. In your case since you have version 9 installed, in addition to the above in the add ons there should be Flash9?.ocx as well. The ? mark will be a letter
and most importantly be Enabled. This is a must for Flash Player to work.
It is very easy to get Shockwave Flash Object confused with Shockwave ActiveX Control. The Shockwave Player that you have listed in Add/Remove also has in your add ons an ActiveX Control and they work together. The Flash Player works
together with the Shockwave Flash Object, which is it's ActiveX Control.
The reason I asked you about the DLM is because sometimes after in downloads it does not disconnect, so glad it's not there.
In the Flash folder you should have listed Flash9?.ocx, FlashUtil9?.exe, install.log, Uninstall_ActiveX.exe.
Recheck your add ons(the downloaded now and the have been used) the drop down arrow should show you both. You can tell if SFO is there as described above and if it's enabled.
This link may be helpful to you to read over regarding Security Settings and ActiveX Controls. I wouldn't take any action at this time until we see if you need to.
http://go.adobe.com/kb/ts_tn_19166_en-us 
Thanks Andrew