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    Quote Originally Posted by Zenobia View Post
    Also,here's the article on Adobe about the flash kill bit:
    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=tn_19091
    I really appreciate all of the help you all are trying to give me! Unfortunately I have done ALL of the things on the Adobe website. Nothing seems to work. I am pretty clueless at this point. It just doesn't make sense to me.
    I have never had Spyware Blaster on the computer (someone suggested that might have left a kill bit). I think that a friend (my former neighbor who was my computer geek) ran Ad Aware on my computer once to look for malware, but I cannot find anything left on the computer that would relate to Ad Aware. I mention it because I have seen a few references to people having trouble with Flash after installing Ad Aware?

    I have some suspicions that Java may be involved... I have had a problem for a long time with not being able to view some flash content (websites telling me I needed to install new version of Flash) but since installing a Java update (or at least I think that's when it started) I can't view websites that I used to get to fine.. those sites are telling me that I don't have Flash (and they never used to).
    This is definitately a

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    Default Same problem here

    I'm having the same problem - installed Flash several times, apparently with success each time, until I browse to a page using flash: "No flash installed".

    I'm using a freshly installed Vista, and just ran spybot immunization. I think flash was installed and worked before that, but I'm not quite sure.



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    I looked at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\ActiveX Compatibility\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}\ in my registry,and the compatability flag is just set to 0,so I'd assume Spybot didn't set a killbit.

    You could try going to Tools,Manage Add-ons,and make sure the add-on isn't being disabled.There is also an Adobe forum.Looks like a lot of people having problems.You could both have a look through some postings already there,or start a new thread to ask for help.I see a few postings where someone thought it may be a permissions problem,after other things were tried:
    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...read=y#4598341

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    Thumbs up Yes!!!!

    Zenobia! I could kiss you!

    I'm 99% of the way there with the fixes listed here:
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    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforu...read=y#4598341

    Uninstall flash with the latest Adobe stand alone uninstaller

    Download Complete Standalone installer Flash Player 9 earlier version from
    http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html

    Uninstall shockwave with the latest Adobe stand alone uninstaller

    Download Stand-alone installers for Shockwave Player: previous versions only
    http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowled...fm?id=tn_18629

    Note: Users of Windows XP operating system must use the 8.5.1 Shockwave player or higher. For more information, please seeInstalling the Shockwave Player on Microsoft Windows XP (TechNote tn_15924).
    Windows Shockwave Player 9.0.0.434
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    I've got most things back and running now... just one or two websites that seems to be a bit cranky (but so far something I can live with!). But I'm now back to being able to run important things I've been missing!
    You are a saint for helping me with this!
    It has been causing me endless grief... I've searched and searched ... seems I'm not the only one who has had this problem. Hard to believe that the answer was posted YESTERDAY!
    Bless you!

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    I actually posted the link to that by mistake,and meant to link to the Adobe guys post. But,that post worked for you,so I guess it's what you'd call a happy accident.Glad flash is working for you now on most websites.

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