macromedia flash player

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81sriram

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while trying to view video in internet explorer on my administrative user account it works fine. But in a non-administrative user account, I am unable to play the video. comes back with a message saying" Install flash player".

any ideas?

Sriram
 
You have to find a folder on your drive, which I think is \System32\Macromed. In it there will be a setup utility file. If you run that as the admin, it will update Flash correctly and work properly.
 
I have a few systems here doing that same thing. The first one, I tried several things and eventually it worked, then I tried the same things on the second one that I finished on the first one with, but it didn't work. I finally found out, by the 8th system I fixed, that simply rebooting no less than 7 times actually fixes it.

I swear, either Adobe or MS, very probably both, really need to get their act together.

Edit: I forgot to mention: between reboots, let the system fully log in and finish loading everything until it is idle beforce rebooting again. It is like there is a series of files or changes that have to take place during those reboots that don't finish with just 1 or 2.
 
The method I gave above is the fix for all the Adobe troubles since the buyout. I also haven't had that problem in the past month on new systems, with the newest Flash Player installed. This issue started cropping up when Adobe bought out Macromedia.
 
I tried eveything. all the above mentioned stuff. but still no redemption.

the funny thing is, it used to work before. i dont recall making any changes to the IE settings. I do not know why online videos wont play anymore.

anyways thanks for the replies.
 
That's exactly how it was for me. It seemed to work for a while, and then after a round of updates, it stopped working, regardless of the PC was running XP or Vista. I stumbled across the Macromed instructions, and it worked for the time being. Now, on fresh builds, with the absolute latest version, I don't have this issue anymore.
 
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