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

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For Mr. Showalter and others who've seen this without resolve, I happened upon yet another SIMPLE solution. Adobe recommends that you uninstall older versions of Flash Player, a tact I had not taken in previous upgrades. But, after the most recent upgrade wouldn't kick in, an uninstall and reinstall of the current version did the trick.

I did that but it still does not work.

Thanks for pointing out it was about the Noscript add-on I installed with firefox3. That was exactly what i was looking for, now flash works again.

yo, I had an earlyer version, it worked then it stoped and I was informed I need version 9 or greater, so went to ze site and clicked "agree and install" and nothing happend, my bar did not respond(lol) nothing. I'm running vista but if I changed the version I was after to win98 I could download, yet this achieved nada. I tried the uninstall aproach, but still no respons at the download site and now I've tried this and yet again failure.. I am currently waiting for the download from the link and its at 79% so you're gonna have to wait a minute...92% man I hate dial up, dam it that link has expired and it takes you to this driver cure thing that does the ol "I'll scan ya computer, tell ya whats wrong and asked to be registerd before I fix it. I have got no idea, and from what I've it seems there are a few different problems mainly with windows.

I'm back, and kinda succesfull, I went back to the site and downloaded version 9 http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html saving to the desktop,closed all my browsers then uninstalled flash ver? using the flash uninstaller, I cant remember where i got that so use google or something, opend C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash and dragged the remaining content (install.txt) to the desktop !I did not delete it! then I ran flash player_9_ax_debug (flash ver9) and kept the folder open and watched it install 4 files. I tested it, works fine Highly recomended.

in regard to my last comment... you can download the uninstaller here cya.

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&sliceId=1

Greetings,
I re-installed AFP and made sure JS was enabled.
But I still get a message when I visit a flash site saying I need to enable JS?
Please advise.

Thank you Tim. I followwed the steps but when I get to
C:\WINDOWS\system32\, I do not have Macromed\Flash... And I looked everywhere!

So I am stucked right now...

Tks and any help would be greatly appreciated : )

I'm back, and kinda succesfull, I went back to the site and downloaded version 9 http://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/downloads.html saving to the desktop,closed all my browsers then uninstalled flash ver? using the flash uninstaller, I cant remember where i got that so use google or something, opend C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash and dragged the remaining content (install.txt) to the desktop !I did not delete it! then I ran flash player_9_ax_debug (flash ver9) and kept the folder open and watched it install 4 files. I tested it, works fine Highly recomended.

Posted by: tim at January 19, 2009 3:40 PM
in regard to my last comment... you can download the uninstaller here cya.

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=tn_14157&sliceId=1

I have been having this prob. for over 2 months too. I was able to fix it by going to IE/tools/manage add-ons, enable shockwave. Couldn't believe that fixed it. But first, I uninstalled the program using revouninstall [broken link removed] and rebooted. But u may not have to do all that, just try enabling shockwave first.

ive done what you said, and when i checked everything was on already and i still get the message, can anyone help me as its really fustrating :(

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