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charliebrown

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Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
« on: November 22, 2007, 11:54:31 AM »
My daughter has a Compaq P4-brand new with Vista installed.  She's downloaded, installed Adobe Flash, uninstalled, reinstalled...none of the flash sites work-it keeps asking her to download and install Adobe Flash.  Is this a "Vista" bug?  Thank you in advance.  I went over last night and had same problems...just will not run flash content and keeps prompting for installing. 


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Re: Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2007, 12:02:47 PM »
There are known issues with the latest flash...

Travel Here and have her run the uninstaller and then DLoad and install the latest version...
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Re: Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2007, 08:20:10 AM »
There are known issues with the latest flash...

Travel Here and have her run the uninstaller and then DLoad and install the latest version...

Just a warning to all Vista users...though IE 7 may be a contributing culprit.  Having treid a dozen times to uninstall Flash and reinstall (even using Adobe's uninstall program/fix) Flash would still not work.  Solution was to reformat and reinstall Vista and then, before doing anything, install all of the IE7 add-ons.  Following that, download critical updates from Microsoft. 

The fun part was that this new Compaq came with Vista pre-installed.  I used the OEM disc for the very first time and Microsoft would not let me authenticate or register online...I had to call.  "Mandy" (not her real name-trust me on that) was nice to start with until I told her that, "No, this disc is not installed on another computer, I am reinstalling due to a problem with Vista running add-ons in IE7".  She had me hold while she called a supervisor...then we had to go through the explanation AGAIN.  Microsoft does not like it when you tell them there is a software problem (unless you want to pay for telephone support as I did ONE TIME after Xp was released).
Everything now works well...so far ;-)

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    Re: Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
    « Reply #3 on: December 04, 2007, 04:46:13 PM »
    I'm using Vista and never had a problem with Flash.  I wonder if it's a Compaq issue.

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    Re: Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
    « Reply #4 on: December 04, 2007, 05:17:55 PM »
    I suspect this was a Adobe issue. There was probably a registry key left (I think programmers should stop using the registry...)

    I did have problems with Adobe once before on Vista, but it resolved itself. I suspect it was a registry conflict with Foxit.


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    Re: Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
    « Reply #5 on: December 04, 2007, 07:26:37 PM »
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    I did have problems with Adobe once before on Vista, but it resolved itself
    Strangely enough, exactly same thing happened to me. Once in a while web page was asking me to install latest Flash (which, obviously was installed already). I just clicked OK, and everything displayed fine, without any extra install.
    After a while, problem disappeared by itself.

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    Re: Vista and Adobe Flash...grrrr
    « Reply #6 on: December 04, 2007, 07:58:43 PM »
    charliebrown are you saying you followed the directions and ran the un-installer and still had issues ? ?
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