Adobe did an automatic update sometime within the past couple weeks to the most recent version of Flashplayer which, of course, they recommend. Unfortunately, it locks up my internet. I always get 'Yahoo.com (or whatever website) is not responding'. When I uninstall flash player, the internet works fine. Since it's 'free' I don't expect much, but you can't really operate on the web without it. No videos (news, youtube, etc.) and even the weather radar will work without it. How to I get back to a functional version of flash player? They either don't offer support for their 'free' stuff or they just make the information impossible to find. I have disabled accelerators as suggested in one forum but that didn't fix the issue.
Moved to Installing Flash Player
If you want to try an earlier version → How do I revert to a previous version of Flash Player?
Learn something new everyday. It basically just comes up with a message that I can't get around and stops my attempts to load a previous version.
I'm on Windows 7 Home Premium.
Log file contents:
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0000 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000010 "C:\Users\Ken\Documents\Downloads\fp10.1_archive\10_1r53_64\flashplay er10_1r53_64_winax.exe"
0001 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001013
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=O====== M/11.3.300.265 2012-07-15+22-35-54.543 ========
0000 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000010 "C:\Users\Ken\AppData\Local\Temp\install_flash_player_ax.exe" -install -iv 8 -au 1
0001 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerActiveX/PlayerPath 2
0002 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerActiveX/PlayerPath 2
0003 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000020 C:\Windows\system32\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
0004 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Adobe Flash Player ActiveX/ 2
0005 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000013 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash32_11_3_300_265.ocx
0006 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.e xe
0007 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000016 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.d ll
0008 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000019 C:\Windows\system32\FlashPlayerCPLApp.cpl
0009 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000021 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe
0010 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000012
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=O====== M/11.3.300.265 2012-07-15+22-38-12.927 ========
0000 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000010 "C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX. exe" -maintain activex
0001 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.e xe 5
0002 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000018
0003 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.e xe 5
0004 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.d ll 5
0005 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000018
0006 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.d ll 5
0007 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce/FlashPlayerUpdate 2
0008 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerActiveX/ 2
0009 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer/FlashPlayerVersion 2
0010 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayer/SwfInstall 2
0011 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 Software\Microsoft\Code Store Database\Distribution Units\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}/ 2
0012 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001021
0013 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerActiveX/PlayerPath 2
0014 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerPlugin/PlayerPath 2
0015 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerActiveX/PlayerPath 2
0016 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerPlugin/PlayerPath 2
0017 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001037 Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Control Panel\Extended Properties\System.ControlPanel.Category/C:\Windows\system32\FlashPlay erCPLApp.cpl 2
0018 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerActiveX/PlayerPath 2
0019 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001036 Software\Macromedia\FlashPlayerPlugin/PlayerPath 2
0020 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.d ll 5
0021 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00001015 C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_3_300_265_ActiveX.e xe 5
0022 Re: Flash player crashing IE. 00000012
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