Why won't Flash work, even though it's installed?

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Flash stopped working for me in IE6 as soon as I tried updating to the most recent version of Flash. Even after running the uninstall program Adobe advises (this is a known issue to Adobe), no help. Things are fine in FireFox 1.5, but NG in IE6. I did some research and learned(?) that I probably have to tweek my Windows registry. No thanks. If you could find the solution for this NON-JavaScript-related cause, I'd be much obliged.

If you suspect that the absence of JavaScript is what is causing Flash to incorrectly seem to be missing, then this Flash "tester" page works both with and without JavaScript enabled.
http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/
The resulting page varies, depending on the presence or absence of JavaScript, but the Version Information box seems to be correct no matter what.

Leo, you are the best! I am so happy you have this website......What a Sweetheart you are!! to provide this information.........Thank you Leo...so very much.

Bless you and your family from mine...Diane Bradford
[email address removed]

Had a similar problem with both Mozilla Suite and the Opera browser. Sovled the problem by running it in 'compatability' mode:

Find the shortcut that starts your browser, in my case, Mozilla Suite 1.7.12, and the shortcut is on my 'Quick Launch' bar.
right-click on the shortcut
click on properties
click on the 'Compatibility' tab
check the box that says: "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
click on the little arrow where it says 'Windows 95'
and change it by clicking on 'Windows 2000'
click on 'Apply' and then 'OK'

Also works with Opera.

http://www.geocities.com/terryhollett2003/shock.html

Leo, Baby!
The "skin" you use in your FireFox browser (at least in this posting above) looks awesome. i have gone through the options for a different look of my browser, but did not find anything that looked like what you have. Can you tell me the "name" and where you got this "skin"?

your hyperlink to NoScript does not work: Page Not Found

I'm sorry, but I couldn't find the page you requested:

/noscript

I will google it for another reference.

Whoops. Fixed, thank you.

The theme/skin, by the way, is "Noia 2.0 (eXtreme)" https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/72/

I clicked on your Firefox link to see and got this:
HTTP Status 500 -

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: URLDecoder: Illegal hex characters in escape (%) pattern - For input string: "uF"
java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:173)
java.net.URLDecoder.decode(URLDecoder.java:83)
com.kona.redirectengine.decode.Decoder.decode(Decoder.java:188)
com.kona.redirectengine.RedirectServlet.doAction(RedirectServlet.java:279)
com.kona.redirectengine.RedirectServlet.doGet(RedirectServlet.java:245)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.20 logs.

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Whats going on here?

Have followed advice on ensuring the activex options are set correctly (they were). Have uninstalled/re-installed Flash more times that i can count, followed some advice to delete some preferences against Macromed set in the registry...etc etc etc but am still unable to get it to work through either IE 7 or FF2.0...help!!... it's been driving me crazy for months.

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