Comments on: Fixing Adobe Flash Problems on Vista

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:19:55 +0000

jodie,
The best thing to do is go to Adobe and use their uninstaller:

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html?promoid=DTEGO

Then just re-install Flash again:

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/?promoid=BUIGP

By: jodie

jodie — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 23:32:20 +0000

Hi there. Im searching on my mums behalf (Im not silly enough to have vista!!) and I was wondering if someone could run through the “fix” for the above problem again with installing adobe version _10_ again? Im getting a bit lost in all the posts.. I realise this is an old thread, so I hope someone is still listening! Thanks in advance. Jodie

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:34:41 +0000

fredg773,
I received an email from a Charles Culver who pointed out something useful:

“The last poster says that he didn’t have that directory. Thats probably because he has vista x64. On my install of vista 64, the directory you need to browse to is:
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\flash\ The flashutil prog is in there.”

So there you go…if you have Vista 64-bit, look in that folder…

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 16:36:00 +0000

fredg773,
I’ve never seen a computer that didn’t have that folder, so my suggestion to you is to go to Adobe’s Web site, do a search for their Flash uninstall tool, and run that. Then come back and re-install Flash 10.

By: fredg773

fredg773 — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:53:37 +0000

I would love to try this fix, however I have no such directory as C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash.
I have the latest version of Flash installed, and on most sites it does work. However it does not work on CBS.com, that site keeps telling me I need flash! It’s very annoying and I have tried almost everything. No clue why I don’t have that directory tho if flash is installed.

By: Don Moir

Don Moir — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:24:14 +0000

This finnally happened to me and I believe I have the correct answer.

The details can be found here:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/199162?tstart=0

Don

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"Adobe Flash player needs to be updated" Error Message | keyongtech — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:17:01 +0000

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By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:56:50 +0000

tracy21,
I stand corrected – the latest version is in fact 10.x

http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/

I’m a bit confused though, because I just re-built my computer and installed Flash for both IE7 and Firefox 3, and on IE7 I have 9.0.124 and on Firefox I have 10.0.12.36. So I really have no idea what the heck Adobe is up to…

By: Jason Dunn

Jason Dunn — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:39:44 +0000

tracy21,
The latest version of Adobe Flash is 9f – version 10 is still in beta, so I suspect that’s why you’re having trouble. Go go Adobe.com and search for their Flash uninstall tool, then install v9. I was using v10 for a while, but there were some things that just never worked right.

By: tracy21

tracy21 — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:57:29 +0000

I’m having this same problem and I tried this, but it did not work for me. I didnt have this problem until I got the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player. I have 10 not 9, so maybe thats why what you did didnt work for me? I have tried everything I could think of, but nothing is working. I want to reinstall the Adobe Flash Player 9. I’ve tried looking for it on Adobe but I can’t find it for my pc. Is it not possible for me to go back to using Adobe 9? Any help I cant get would be nice!