Flash quit working in IE8

[SonoranRogue]

Running XP SP3. Firefox and IE8. Flash player was working fine in both  browsers but then it stopped working in IE8. Works fine in FF. I tried  uninstalling/installing Flash again but when I go to the Flash install  page in IE8, I get a blank screen with no choices. Looking at this page  in FF shows everything needed to download Flash. However, IE8 shows that  Flash is enabled in the Manage Add-Ons area. When I try to verify Flash is installed in IE8, nothing happens when I click the "Check Now" button in IE8; but that same button works fine in FF.

I use Yahoo Messenger a lot but I can no longer see my conversatons since it is Flash driven. For some reason, Messenger relies on IE's settings for it to work I guess.

Any help is appreciated.

[C_F_McBlob]

• Flash Player for ActiveX (Internet Explorer)
• Flash Player Plug-in (All other browsers)

Use those links to do a clean install:  http://forums.adobe.com/message/4041846

I haven't heard how much longer XP is going to be supported for Flash, but given past history, it's about ten months beyond  the "sunset" date at most, and April 8 was that date, so XP has till maybe the end of the year and there will be no more Flash Player for it.

[SonoranRogue]

Thanks. I've already tried all that before I posted my issue.   I get NO warning messages on IE8. It says I have the current Flash installed but nothing Flash related works on IE8.  However, it works fine on FF.  I normally wouldn't bother with IE8 but somehow Yahoo Messenger is connected to it and it won't work unless I can get Flash working in IE8 again.

[C_F_McBlob]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318378

Try repairing IE

[SonoranRogue]

Thanks again. But I've already uninstalled and reinstalled IE.  Nothing has worked so far.

[C_F_McBlob]

Have you tried reinstalling Yahoo messenger?

[SonoranRogue]

Yes. And now it's worse than before because Messenger has the Facebook crap on the interface and I can't delete it now because it is Flash based. And Flash isn't working in Messenger.

[C_F_McBlob]

https://www.trillian.im/

Uses your Yahoo Messenger ID, and ISN'T Flash based.

I've used Trillian instead of MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AIM. It's better.