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Comment from Bas on 2008-11-05

2008-11-05T21:26:17Z

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.

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Comment from wes on 2008-09-07

2008-09-07T19:00:21Z

I did that but it still does not work.

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Comment from matt on 2008-08-07

2008-08-07T21:11:11Z

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.

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Comment from Cat Moves on 2008-07-17

2008-07-17T18:08:44Z

This page: http://ask-leo.com/why_wont_flash_work_even_though_its_installed.html
does not fit on my screen resolution. Can you code it so that it fit any size I choose to have on my monitor? Thank you.

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Comment from Izzy on 2008-07-07

2008-07-07T12:30:31Z

This was very useful but did not help me. Flash used to work on my computer but has now stopped and won't download properly or work. Have you got any ideas as to how I could dowload Flash successfully again?

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Comment from Steve Showalter on 2008-04-01

2008-04-02T01:16:25Z

I am able to have flash videos work in dreamweaver preview for flv and swf and once uploaded niether is visible, I am able to get QT to run
any ideas?
thanks Steve

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Comment from Steven on 2008-01-17

2008-01-18T05:08:07Z

Finally, I found advice that really worked. It may have been a combination of steps. I (1) followed Leo's advice about enabling Java Script, then (2) used the download from this site: http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html. After a reboot, a website that had been driving me nuts played just great. Thanks for having this advice!

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Comment from ricardo on 2007-10-21

2007-10-22T04:36:54Z

hey i have done the thing with the enable the Active Scripting but it still does not work. What is the problem i keep getting the same "You either have javascript turned off or you dont have the latest flash player" Help please

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Comment from nate on 2007-10-16

2007-10-16T23:43:03Z

I tried what you said, and had no luck. I was able to use flash n' everything before when I got my computer a few months ago. But recently it's like it dissapeared, and I tried installing it a billion times, and got nowhere. I heard about AVG affecting it, but i don't have AVG installed either. What do i do, it's driving me NUTS!

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Comment from - on 2007-07-30

2007-07-30T19:17:24Z

This didnt help me much.i had the same problem and added this and asbsolutely nothing still.........

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Comment from JBATES on 2007-05-16

2007-05-16T15:38:47Z

I have a problem and hope you can help. I ran Norton Antivirus live update on my son's laptop.
Now he is unable to open email in Outlook. I got a browser error message that said to enable Java scripting and applets and cookies, which I did. No sucess, it still doesnt work. Any suggestions?
thank you

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Comment from alan on 2007-04-19

2007-04-19T15:27:34Z

leo the site is great but i'm still having problems with javascript, i have enabled it in the settings for ie7 as described but the website i go on says it is not enabled. help please

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Comment from Gerold_Becker on 2007-03-28

2007-03-28T10:47:26Z

I've had this prolem with youtube. Apparently the problem (in this case) is with the website not recognising the latest (Flash)install/update. I fixed my problem by downloading the latest 'full' Flashplayer from http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

Hope it works for you too.

Leo I recently discovered your site and I love it,
greetings from The Netherlands.

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Comment from James on 2007-03-24

2007-03-24T14:30:03Z

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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Comment from John Stockell on 2007-03-19

2007-03-19T09:32:33Z

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?

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-03-17

2007-03-17T20:20:05Z

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

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Comment from Leo A. Notenboom on 2007-03-17

2007-03-17T20:17:01Z

Whoops. Fixed, thank you.

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Comment from Anthony Brunetti on 2007-03-17

2007-03-17T20:04:02Z

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.

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Comment from Anthony Brunetti on 2007-03-17

2007-03-17T20:01:47Z

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"?

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Comment from Terry Hollett on 2007-03-17

2007-03-17T16:19:29Z

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

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Comment from Diane Bradford on 2007-03-16

2007-03-17T03:40:28Z

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]

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Comment from Michael Horowitz on 2007-03-13

2007-03-13T21:09:09Z

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.

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Comment from Jeff on 2007-03-12

2007-03-12T20:44:05Z

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.

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