Why won't Flash player install on my windows vista?

After downloading and installing Flash player several times on my computer the installation fails in spite of the message reading that it has successfully installed. As a result I am unable to view videos from my favorite photo sites. Using internet explorer on a 64 bit system.

Download the following files by right clicking and selecting "Save target as"
Flash Player Uninstaller
Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
Save ALL files to your Downloads folder - DO NOT RUN anything yet.
Reboot your system.
BEFORE opening anything else, go to your Downloads folder and run the UNINSTALLER to remove all instances of Flash Player.
Next, run the ActiveX Installer.
Once Flash Player is installed go to: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/#sp
Download BOTH files, the one on the right FIRST by right clicking and selecting "Save target as"... the other by clicking and following the steps to download the FULL ActiveX installer.
Once everything is installed, see:Enabling Flash Player in Internet Explorer and: ActiveX Filtering in Internet Explorer to make 100% sure that Flash Player is enabled and NOT being blocked by ActiveX controls.
I have a Vista Utlimate 64 bit system and it worked for me the way I described here.

Similar Messages

Why won't Flash Player install past 25%.

I have OS X10.10.2 Yosemite and am running Safarii Version 8.0.4 (10600.4.10.7). I have uninstalled the previous version of "Flash Player" and have tried to install a new version from url - https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html. The installation only gets as far as 25% before stalling. I have let it run for an hour or more and it still won't budge. Can anyone help?

This morning we resolved a problem that prevented Flash Player installations from completing for some of our Macintosh users.
If you encountered this problem, please delete any previously downloaded Flash Player installer and either:
1.) Download the installer again from https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer
2.) Download the stand-alone installer from http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_osx.dmg

Why Won't Flash Player Install?!?!

I am trying to install the latest version of Flash Player for my Mac (on Firefox), it never gets past 97%. I have uninstalled and tried to download again and again. The installer window would not close without uninstalling it. Now I do now have Flash Player at all!!! What am I supposed to do?

Please use the offline installer:
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_osx.dmg
If that doesn't work, it's typically something corrupted with either the filesystem or filesystem permissions.
Before running the disk repair utility, you would be wise to ensure that you have current backups if you have anything important on the machine.
Then go to Application > Utilities > Disk Utility
Choose your hard disk from the left column (typically Macintosh HD), then click Verify Disk and subsequently Repair Disk if necessary. After that, do Repair Disk Permissions. Oddly, sometimes Verify Disk Permissions will come back clean, but Repair Disk Permissions with then find a repair a bunch of stuff. You can do both, but just skipping to Repair is faster.

Why won't Flash Player install on my PC? Response is "Action list not found".

The security settings are set as instructed. Java script is enabled.

Use the offline installer
Windows: http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/installation-problems-flash-player-windows.html#mai n-pars_header
Mac OS: http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/licensing/mac/install_flash_playe r_11_osx.dmg

Why won't Flash Player work after I have installed it?

I have installed Flash Player 12 successfully and use Internet Explorer 11. I have also checked that my add-on is enabled for Flash Player but whenever I try to see a website that requires Flash Player or a movie that requires it, I am tole that it is not on my PC. I check in my programs and have uninstalled it and re-installed it a number of times but always the same. Can anyone help?

I am waiting for an answer from Adobe.

Help why won't flash player work??

I got a Nokia lumia for Christmas, its saying flash player is installed but it won't work. It says it may be disabled or something about ActiveX, but i don't know how to sort it out, Anyone able to help please?

login with the admin account and uninstall
then login with your normal account and install the latest
flash player, it's the newest on the flash player 9 package.. Don't
forget to close all browser windows before installing.
To be on the safe side, uninstall the flash player using this
package
http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe
Be aware of this:
Note: Internet Explorer users may have to reboot to clear all
uninstalled Flash Player ActiveX control files. If you're not
certain, select the "Show Details" button in the Flash Player
uninstaller. If there are any log lines that begin with "Delete on
Reboot..." then you'll need to reboot BEFORE running the Flash
Player installer again.

Why won't flash player down load

I had flash player untill 2 weeks ago. I turned my computer on it was gone. I have not been able to download it says error active x or failed. I have windows 7 , 64 bit and I believe 32 bit. I am the only user on this computer. Why won't it down load please help me. Thank you, Lwblondie821

Hi Lwblondie821,
please chech the below link. Hope it would help you.
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-9-activex-control.html
Thanks,
Ashish

Why is the flash player install not making good audio?

I am trying to run a "movie" from Autodesk's tutorial stuff, and it
requires a Flash player, which I downloaded
and installed. The "movie" plays but not with good audio...(almost no volume)
I am running win 7 64... went through that install of "Square"
thinking that was the problem..
I think it is some setting in the OS that has to be made (like shut off windows media player somewhere)
Worse.. . I called Adobe, waited 8 minutes to talk to somebody,
but he says yes there is a fix but it will cost me $30+... which
I refuse to pay just to get an unnecessary "player" to work in
a Microsoft world...
Please help with a detailed solution as to what to fix or send
me to the right "FAQ" page that deals with this... Flash installed
but does not play audio of a movie.. sounds like a simple problem
that the installation program should have solved.

Try this http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/837/cpsid_83739.html
If that does not help, here is a more complex checklist http://www.codecguide.com/fix_for_flash_sound_problems.htm

Why doesn't Flash Player install on my desktop?

It all began with Windows Live mail which - all of a sudden - didn't load and I was advised to download Flash Player which already was in my desktop PC.After having removed the old version I downloaded the new version of Flash Player and got McAffee as a bonus beside. McAffee loaded rapidly but Flash Player seemed to load - the green colored line was full but the program was still loading for at least half an hour which has to be wrong.
I'm running XP Home SP3 32 bits on a flat screen and use IE version 8.0 128 bits.
Hoping for help from anyone and please, explain in very understandable words.

Noticed today after updating my flash player to 10.2.152.32 that my screen started flickering when switching among videos on youtube and elsewhere. I uninstalled latest version and re-installed previous version 10.2.152.26 and problem went away. I wonder if future udates have this problem fixed.For the Japanese, regardless of whether you choose option one or two, you are required you to pay the entire balance on your credit card each month. A charge card has to be paid off in full every month, a credit card doesn’t – the author seems to be using the two terms interchangeably, which they are not. The cashier recounted to me in Japanese each item she rang up, not that I understood what she was saying. Obviously she realized this because when it came time to announce the total, she smiled politely and turned the display around for me to see the price. I handed her my credit card.
======================
Contract Hire and Leasing

Why won't Flash CS3 install on my MacPro?

I've done three clean installs of CS3. Lots of crashing problems with FW CS4 and Bridge CS4, so I thought a fresh start would be helpful. Wrong. I'm NOT on Snow Leopard. MacPro, Intel, 4 gigs RAM. I did have Fireworks CS4 on my Mac, but it's all uninstalled. When I try to install the entire CS3 suite, Flash will not install. When I try to install Flash all by itself, it keeps asking for the Fireworks install CD, over and over, even though FW has been uninstalled. Then, ultimately, Flash doesn't install.
I tried to run the CS3 cleanup script, but the terminal won't take my password. I ran the CS4 cleanup script after I uninstalled FW, but it said there was nothing to clean up.
Please, can anyone help? I've spent SEVERAL hours on this. Even repaired permissions. I want to scream.

I had a scratched disk.
I did two things: I bought a disk repair contraption at Best Buy. Worked awesomely. Then I copied the file onto my hard drive and ran it from there.
This was NOT a seamless process, and I can't even remember everything I did to make it work (oh, and I had copied and pasted Fireworks CS4 to my desktop from my install CD, too, because it stopped recognizing my brand new license, and Flash CS3 required this FW CS4 file to be in the same location from which I installed it in order to make Flash CS3 install), but I FINALLY got it to work, after working on it for 6 hours, going to bed at 3am, getting up at 7:30am, and working on it for another 11 hours, including two phone calls for a total of two hours to Adobe's stellar support in Pah-kee-stahn, wherein I was given the wrong information from 3 technicians who, granted, *really* tried to help, but who couldn't even agree with each other on the fix - "Customer service will give you a link to stand-alone versions of Acrobat 8 and Flash CS3 that you can activate with your serial number," "No we can't. We'll have to send you a link to the whole suite." Except the link to the download wouldn't work when they checked it on their end, so they couldn't send it to me, and they would have someone call me back in 24-48 hours, then 2-3 hours (after I pitched a fit because I have to work - no work, no pay) - they didn't call me back. It's been over 24 hours, it's been over 2-3 hours.
And even so, it won't reinstall Acrobat because it says it's already been installed, even though I can't find it anywhere on my system - not in my applications folder, not in my emptied trash, not my various folders in the user library, not in the root library, not in the system library - nowhere. But it's there. In a ghost area of my system, apparently. So I had to buy Acrobat 9 just so I could work. Academic Superstore. Academic discount - NEVER stop learning! Even if you're 51.
I feel incredibly hostile toward Adobe. But their software is my bread-and-butter. I use almost all of it on a daily basis. It's going to be a long, long time before I trust Adobe with my money. CS4 Master Collection, that I was salivating over, that I was planning to save up for? I don't think so. CS5? Unlikely, until I have no other choice.
I would rather wait longer and get software that doesn't eat into my productivity with bugs and crashes.
That's okay. I've been venting away about this on Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn and a web development group I'm on. I can warn others. Funny thing is, I'm getting so many responses from people going through nightmares of their own with CS4. Only a handful of people respond with, "I don't know what you're talking about! My CS4 has run flawlessly!" Only a handful. So sad.

Why won't Flash Player download?

I'm trying to download Flash Player on OS 10.6.8, but all that will download is the installer. When I click on he installer, it simply downloads the installer again. I've gone through all the suggestions on the Adobe site for this problem.

I got the same result: A small window appears, indicating that the file was downloaded. I click on that and I get another file that says to Install Flash Player. I click on that and an icon appears on my hard drive; the icon indicates that it's the same installer as before. So I click on that, and I get a file that says it's the installer. It's going in circles. Awhile back I did get in my applications folder a file labeled "Flash Player.plugin" but clicking on that brings no result.
In my applications folder I now have five icons labeled "Flash Player," all of which simply tell me to Install FP. I also have in the folder four docs labeled "Install Adobe Flash Player.app" but none of them will install FP.
I have had an older version of FP working, but when I received notice that I needed to upgrade, I tried to do that. I also took the advice on the Adobe site to use the FP Install Manager to delete that old version. The deletion worked fine; the installation of the upgrade doesn't work.

Why won't Flash Player, play?

The Flash player installs fine, so it says, and then when the window comes up to show it is working, no video to verify it is working. Now what? I have taken the security settings off and deleted all the past history, deleted old versions of Player. Still will not let me access sites that say I have to upgrade. I see a lot of problems with this flash player 10 but no real solutions. I am running IE8 with Vista. Any help will be muchly appreciated.

Hi there.
I am new to this forum and signed up just so I could include my own frustrations with this very same problem!
I am located in Canada and prefer to watch streaming video over regular TV. For some reason, the CBC player stopped working for me when I upgraded my Flash Player. I do not recall which version of Adobe Flash I had installed when this problem started to occur but I know it wasn't the most current version (10,3,181,34) that I have now. But it definitely seemed to follow the Flash update.
I have Flash version 10,3,181,34 now. I have updated to Firefox 5. Active X, javascript, etc is all enabled. I have walked through all of Adobe's troubleshooting steps. I have tried disabling my anti-virus. I tried re-installing all of my browsers, plug-ins etc. yet the problem still persists. And I am in the exact same boat as the poster in that I can still watch Flash player streaming content from all other websites but not from CBC.ca!
So I was happy to see someone made a post about it because it is incredibly frustrating and CBC.ca doesn't respond to inquiries/troubleshooting complaints directly.
I'm pretty technologically adapt as I am a system administrator and lon-time IT professional. Should I ever get this problem resolved, I will be sure to post here, otherwise I will pop back now and again and see if anyone else has come up with a solution.
Cheers and thanks again to the poster for posting this!

Why won't flash player work with ios10.5.8?

I get a message saying "Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date". Then when I go to dl update, I get a "failure to launch" message.

No Flash for iPads, iPhones, or iPods
Here's why there's is no Flash available for iDevices or other mobile devices. Adobe was unable to provide a product that was suitable to the needs of battery powered mobile devices used for Internet browsing. Existing Flash technology used too much memory, ate battery life, and was buggy. Simply put Flash did not work well on mobile devices.
Apple's Steve Jobs led the escape from Flash dependency when Apple introduced the iPhone, and later introduced the iPad. There was a hue and cry over the omission. Time proved Jobs was right on target.
So this is why there is no Flash for your iPhone or iPad or iPod nor for most SmartPhones. Flash has been abandoned by many sites in favor of supported technologies such as HTML5 or by providing their own custom app.
Here is Steve Jobs official comment on his momentous decision to omit Flash from iDevices: Steve Jobs on Flash.
Here is Adobe's later announcement to cease development of Flash for mobile devices: Adobe on Mobile Flash.
Now, you are not necessarily out on a limb. There are some apps that can display some Flash, but don't count on there ability to display anything using Flash.
Apps that can display some Flash from the Web:
1. Puffin
2. SkyFire
3. Photon Flash
4. Browse2Go
5. Swifter
Also, note that many sites that use Flash provide their own app for accessing their material. So check with your favorite sites and find out if "there's an app for that."

Why Won't Flash Player Auto Update?

I'm running OS X 10.9.5. "NPAPI Plug-in version 15.0.0.152 is installed." I'm being told an update to Flash Player is available. Allow Adobe to install updates is enabled, yet the updates are never installed automatically. What must I do to have Auto Update work?

Flash Player HAS auto update available
The updates are not simply "patches" anymore. That sort of thing went the way of FAT16, several years ago.
You shouldn't have to update every day. If you are, something is wrong.

Why won't flash player 11.4 on my Dell laptop - have Norton security

cannot update flashplayer on dell laptop??

Flash Player Help | Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows
And do disable Norton temporarily...
Mylenium

Why won't Flash player install on my windows vista?

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for