All of a Sudden, My Flash Player Has Stopped Working

[DannyBoy1799]

Early Friday afternoon (just yesterday), my Flash Player was working fine.  I am using Mozilla's Firefox on a Windows 7 computer (Dell Inspiron 530S).   Then, inexplicably, it failed.  Several websites reported that something couldn't be displayed because I didn't have Adobe's Flash Player installed.  Gotta tell you, I wasn't making any changes to the operating system nor to the browser.  In fact, I wasn't changing ANY of my settings on ANY computer.  Then Friday evening, Flash Player simply stopped working.

I UN-installed the existing program, re-booted, then RE-installed Flash Player and, again, there is no message saying INSTALLED SUCCESSFULLY.  Could any of these be a delayed result of the the latest version of Firefox, which was released on 9/30/2011, about a week ago?

Now, I can't even install the Acrobat after uninstalling IT.

Any ideas?

Dan

[pwillener]

What version of Flash Player do you have installed?

What files do you have in

• C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash ?
• C:\Windows\syswow64\Macromed\Flash ?

Can you try the installation again with the installers from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/909550 ?

[DannyBoy1799]

Installing Flash from the "alternative" installers solved the problem.  Thanks.  I just now re-installed the Acrobat Reader and suffered the same "non installation" I suffered with Flash.  Are there "alternative" installers for Acrobat's Reader?

Thanks in advance,

Dan

[pwillener]

Adobe Reader installer: http://get.adobe.com/reader/enterprise/

[johntechwriter]

I found the answer and it's dead easy.

From IE go to the Tools menu and deselect ActiveX Filtering.

That's it!

If this works for you, please spread the word! I spent hours loading older versions of Flash, configuring Pop-Up Blocker, and generally tearing my hair out.

[pwillener]

John Mulvihill wrote:

I found the answer and it's dead easy.

From IE go to the Tools menu and deselect ActiveX Filtering.

That's it!

If this works for you, please spread the word! I spent hours loading older versions of Flash, configuring Pop-Up Blocker, and generally tearing my hair out.

How would that possibly help resolving the o/p's problem with Firefox...?

Also, why did you spend hours when your solution is right here in the FAQ on top of the forum http://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968