Solved I need help dfiagnosing shock wave player

[MetalMan228]

Good morning everyone. I just developed a problem this morning whereby Youtube nor any video will playback. I ran the Adobe Flash player check and it said I need a plugin (shockwave) to play video. I believe I have had this all along so i dont know why it said that. I uninstalled both flash players (FF&IE) and reinstalled but i get the same error message.

Can anyone help me diagnose what is wrong here?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Callender]

What is that browser? Firefox?

Review Posts #11 and #12 in this thread.

http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pi...s-progress-bar-disappeared-2.html#post3264918

 

[torchwood]

Hi Metalman,
They could be installed, BUT they need to be set to Allways activate, (in FF, not sure about IE).
open plugin manager reset to allways activate.

Roy

 

[Callender]

Also review this: Use YouTube without flash installed in Firefox

 

[Callender]

RE; Always activate flash plugin. It's a bad idea. See:

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...-already-running-post2987446.html#post2987446

http://www.sevenforums.com/browsers...sh-player-update-post2778591.html#post2778591

On YouTube it's fine to allow flash content for the entire page or website but on other sites you certainly wouldn't want to allow it globally.

 

[Callender]

Also suggest:

Suggest:

Run the dedicated flash player removal tool. Uninstalling via other methods doesn't always work.

https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

Follow all steps listed.

Important:

Delete the following folders:

C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
%appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player

Copy and paste the above four lines one at a time into Start> Run dialog box or Explorer window address bar to confirm that the folders no longer exist.

You must manually confirm that they have all been deleted as sometimes files still remain.

You must reboot after removal.

Install flash player. Currently you can download from here:

For Internet Explorer :
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player_ax.exe

For Mozilla Firefox & Chrome :
http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/latest/help/install_flash_player.exe

 

[MetalMan228]

I appreciate all the responses, but i am currently overwhelmed with choices all the people want me to do.

I feel the best way to proceed is to check my add on thru the tools and found "silverlite" need always needed permission, so i changed that to always on with this not helping.

Then i uninstalled flash with the uninstaller too and followed Callender's instructions and this also did not work.

It still says i need the shockwave player installed which is already installed as it continually gives me a dialog box saying it has stopped working , so it is installed on my PC.

I need to go down a list of most probable to least probable issues why this is happening.

I dont want to run FF in some other fashion, band-aided or without flash, since it worked fine yesterday, why does it not work today?

 

[MetalMan228]

Just as fast as this problem developed, it has corrected itself!

Thanks for all the input from everyone it will be useful if the problem reoccurs, at least I know where to start my diagnosis.

 

[Callender]

Post a full page screenshot of what you see here:

https://www.youtube.com/html5

EDIT: Okay don't worry if it's fixed.