flash player won't install on windows 7

This computer is running windows 7 64-bit on an i5 CPU, and had been running well for about 9 months.

At some stage, the owner got the usual prompt to upgrade adobe flash player.

She does what she always does, and upgrades.

The upgrade to 10.2 seems to complete normally

But now ie8 will not run flash files (and prompts the owner to install flash, because its not installed).

I spend a few hours trying various tricks like:

But I do notice that flash actually works well with firefox & chrome…

So: the problem seems to be centered around Internet Explorer.

I eventually have to conceed defeat, but at least the customer is content to use firefox for now.

Mike Golch on 25 June, 2011 at 2:52 am said:

I have not trusted internet explorer for a long time and use FireFox as my browser.
the twitterer on 26 June, 2011 at 11:02 pm said:

I had the same problem. Did a “system rollback” and installed VLC media player instead. (It was a free program). Problem no more!
Computer Repair Lansing on 1 July, 2011 at 8:31 pm said:

I second Mike Golch.

Everyone…AVOID INTERNET EXPLORER. It seems that nothing causes more havoc and allows for such security nonsense than the Windows default browser.

Save yourself some time and money and download Mozilla Firefox (Chrome and Opera are great also). 🙂

Computer Aid