Adobe Flashplayer help please

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  1. Journo Tyke

    Journo Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Yesterday - computer fine.

    Today - when I turned it on it asked if I wanted to install an update of it, so I thought why not - now youtube videos won't play, flashplayer won't open stick cricket or anything, says I've an old version installed or something - yet on both stick cricket and youtube it takes you to the Adobe download page and I've tried downloading it - says it has successfully done so, yet it still doesn't work.

    And I have restarted in between...

    Any ideas?

    Thanks
     
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    Journo Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Please?
     
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    Farnham_Red Administrator Staff Member Admin

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    2 options

    go to add remove programs - completely remove the Adobe flash player - reboot your PC and then reinstall from scratch

    -or

    go to a previous restore point from a couple of days ago -
     
    Farnham_Red, Jul 25, 2008
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    agree. restore your computer to 7 days ago, reboot. should work a treat
     
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    Journo Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Am trying option a), if it doesn't work...

    How do you refer to a previous day's settings?

    No idea!

    Cheers fellas.
     
    Journo Tyke, Jul 26, 2008
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    UNBROKEN RULE - NEVER INSTALL OWT, UNLESS ITS YOUR OWN PROGRAMME.

    Mate did the same yesterday, is PC is in pieces, viruses all over it ... (N)
     
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    Journo Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Ideally yeah...

    But these such programs don't come with PCs and if you want to run owt you've to install em really...

    Hmmmm.
     
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    RE: Ideally yeah...

    Do not install any pop-ups, not even Java's. no-no. (raiseaglass)
     
    Guest, Jul 26, 2008
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    You have to save it, to do that.
     
    Guest, Jul 26, 2008
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    Journo Tyke Well-Known Member

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    Hmmm the delete, re-boot and re-install hasn't worked...

    Though not 100% sure I totally deleted it as I can't find the 'add/remove' appliation, only 'add hardware' so I just found it and deleted it.

    Grrrrrrrrrrr :((
     
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    RE: Hmmm the delete, re-boot and re-install hasn't worked...

    Start>All progams>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore.
    Click on restore my computer to an earlier time then click on one of the dates with bold numerals before you installed said nasty.
    Hope it works bud!
     
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    Its not a hardware related issue

    Are you on Vista or XP

    On XP (or earlier SW) its Start > Control panel > Add or Remove programs

    I have both Adobe Flash Player Plugin
    and
    Adobe Flash Player ActiveX installed

    - I would remove both if I was you and try a reinstallation from

    http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer
     
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    I've had this problem (or very similar)

    In fact flashplayer behaves very oddly on my (Vista) system. It wouldn't automatically download so I had to do it manually. Firefox couldn't see the flashplayer plugin but IE could.
     
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    RE: Hmmm the delete, re-boot and re-install hasn't worked...

    Just trying this now mate...
     
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    System restore failed...

    I think the next step is throwing the laptop out of the window.
     
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    On Vista mate

    Nowt's working!
     
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    RE: On Vista mate

    Uninstalled plug-ins but couldn't find Active X installed anywhere... re-booted and downloaded again but still not working.
     
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