W7/IE9 - Adobe installs 32bit not 64bit Flash

[rickh25345]

Hi - Recently upgraded PC and rebuilt with Win7 Home Premium 64bit / IE9. Installed Adobe Reader 11 ok. I want to install 64bit Flash so I go to get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ . This correctly identifies that I have W7 64bit, but then it downloads 32bit Flash and installs it. W7 Control Panel also showing 32bit Flash installed. II have tried this several times with no change. Is there a way to FORCE the install of the 64bit version?

Thanks... Rick

[Carl_E__Myers_Jr_ · Accepted solution]

There is no 64-bit control panel, only the 32-bit control panel.  The 32-bit Flash Player files will be in Windows/SysWOW64/Macromed/Flash and the 64-bit Flash Player files will be in Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash.

Start the 64-bit I.E. and go to:

http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

If you see the spinning F, the 64-bit Flash Player is installed.

[pwillener]

If it has really only the 32-bit version installed (check if you have it in C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash), then you can download the 64-bit installer from http://forums.adobe.com/thread/909550

[rickh25345]

Thakss for the replies, much appreciated. Confirming that I get the "spinning F" and also that the Macromedia\Flash directory has Flash64 files inside so looks like it has in fact installed the 64bit version. Thanks again.