Windows 7 Random Flash Crashes

For the past few months my HP Pavilion DV4 Laptop has had many problems with Adobe Flash Player.
For some weird reason, every time I start up a flash game/video/program, flash will crash after one or two minutes. This is always the norm with the exception of, sometimes, iTunes and Sony Acid Pro. Then to reactivate Flash I will need to reboot my system. For example, I'm playing an action flash game. After a few minutes of gaming the application freezes, and when I click it it does not respond, leaving me to shut it down with Task Manager. From then on until the next reboot, Flash will not work: all Flash programs will freeze and crash when launched. I have managed to bear with the occasional reboots every now and then, but these days the number of times I reboot is getting ridiculous. Is there a fast, simple way to solve this?
Thanks,
Joel

You did not mention this in your post but have you tried to uninstall and reinstall flash?

Also, does this happen to all your browsers?

does this thread help you mate

somehow i think when you play any flash media you should right click on the flash media and disable hardware acceleration