Troubles with Flash on Vista
I’ve encountered an interesting problem, where i wasn’t really able to track down the source (but found a solution nonetheless.
It was a new Vista Business machine, running Office 2007, freshly set up by me about a week ago. The problem was that Adobe Flash didn’t work. Or, didn’t work completely. Sites like youtube.com didn’t work, but the flash install site showed the animated bar.
When looking at the add ons settings in IE7, you could see that it was successfully installed. I ran the Flash uninstall Tool, which didn’t work quite right – i had to launch it with administrative privileges manually in order for it to succeed. After that, i revisited the flash install site, the plugin was installed again, and everything worked fine.
And here comes the really interesting thing – the person that was using this machine swore that he never saw the ActiveX installation dialog. I looked at the installed software, and Adobe Reader 8 was part of it. Maybe Adobe Reader installed a slightly broken version of the flash plugin? I didn’t bother to investigate this more closely since the problem was already solved, but this might cause some more trouble down the road.
Edward:
Thank You this worked well for me on my Vista home premium. who ever wrote this thank you very much.
29. October, 2007, 21:16Chris Goward:
I recently got a laptop with Vista and had a heck of a time getting the Flash plugin to work in Firefox. Also, my Flash program seems to have some bugs when outputting swf. Some of the links don’t work.
18. December, 2007, 19:03