Solved Installing Adobe Flash Player

[oldretiredman]

Does anyone have a problem installing flash player in win 7? I have tried everything on Adobe's web site to no avil. I get the message that installation suceeded, but it hasn't. Any help or suggestions would be appriciated

 

[seavixen32]

Check this Adobe article for possible solutions.

Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows

I would imagine your installation screwed up and needs to be uninstalled before you have another attempt at installing Flash Player.

You could try a system restore to a point before you tried to install Flash Player, and then try again.

 

[oldretiredman]

Thanks,Seavixen32. I've already tried Adobe's solutions and several others. Have uninstalled with Adobe's uninstaller,reinstalled at least half a dozen times. Think I'll make an image backup,run sf/scan, then reinstall and see if that works. Will post results.

 

[Corazon]

Can I ask? You say it claims that installation succeeded but it really hasn't. How does that manifest itself?
Are you trying to install it for IE or another browser?

Don't reinstall just yet, that's an awful lot of work just to get Flash going. We can solve this.

 

[JMH]

Hello oldretiredman,

* What Browser are you installing Flash Player on?

* Links below pertaining to Flash player that may be helpful.

Uninstall Flash Player | Windows

Adobe Flash Player Help and Support

Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows

Find Flash Player version

Adobe Forums: Forum: Flash Player

 

[oldretiredman]

After the installer completes the download and install ,internet explorer 9 automatically connects to the Adobe site and a message that says "Install sucessful! You are now running Flash Player". But going to a site that requires Flash Player, it gives a message that I do not have Flash Player installed. Searching the registry does find several keys listing Macromedia and Flash Player as being installed.Also the same with Program Files and Program apps. Flash Player still does not work.

 

[Corazon]

And you're definitely installing the IE version of the plugin?

Try the links JMH posted above.

 

[oldretiredman]

Thanks MJH and Corazon. After going to the links MJH suggested , I downloaded Windows Resources Kits and installed it . Then downloaded sublnACL and rest_fp 10 zip ,installed both per instructions,ran reset_fp 10 ,rinstalled Flash Player 11 and lo it worked. Appreciate all the help from everyone!

 

[JMH]

Wonderful.
Good to know it now works.
Safe surfing!

 

[Corazon]

You da man.