FP 13 not working

[Schwarzenegger]

My system is Windows 7 64 bit. Downloaded FlashPlayer 13, disabled ActiveX filtering, enabled Flash add-on. Youtube video tells me to install Flash Player.  FP13 appears in Control Box/ uninstall programs but not in Start/All programs. Looks like there is a piece missing. Any suggestions ?

Cheers,

Schwarzenegger

[C_F_McBlob]

Schwarzenegger wrote:

My system is Windows 7 64 bit. Downloaded FlashPlayer 13, disabled ActiveX filtering, enabled Flash add-on. Youtube video tells me to install Flash Player.  FP13 appears in Control Box/ uninstall programs but not in Start/All programs. Looks like there is a piece missing. Any suggestions ?

Cheers,

Schwarzenegger

Flash Player is not a program... It's a "plug-in" for your browser, which IS a program.

You'll find it in C/Windows/System32/Macromed/Flash and C/Windows/SysWOW64/Macromed/Flash.

If it wasn't installed, you'd never have seen it to enable it.

Are you, by any chance, using Internet Explorer 11?

[Schwarzenegger]

Hello Mike,

Thanks for this. Flash Player is indeed in the folders you mention but it does not solve my problem. How do I get it to work?

Cheers,

Schwarzenegger

[Schwarzenegger]

I am using IE9. Tried to install IE11 but the installation failed.

[Schwarzenegger]

Can somebody please tell me how to get FlashPlayer to work??

[C_F_McBlob]

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/885448

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968

[Schwarzenegger]

I have been through these rituals about a dozen times and always with the same result. It just does not work.

Cheers,

Schwarzenegger

[C_F_McBlob]

Me? I'd get rid of Internet Exploder. I've never liked it, it uses eighteen year old ActiveX technology that the entire computing world abandoned more than a decade ago, and it's a nightmare when it comes to HTML and CSS standards compliance.

Firefox (from Mozilla)

Opera (from Opera)

Safari (from Apple)

Chrome (from Google)

ANY of those will work where IE won't, and better... with the Flash Player Plug-in (For all other browsers), and Chrome doesn't even need that, because it has its own Flash Player plugin built in.

[Schwarzenegger]

Thanks for this Mike. Funny thing is I have had Google Chrome on my computer for about a year and never had a good look at it. I have now made Chrome my default browser and all is well with Flash Player. If I dump IE altogether won’t that affect Windows Live Mail?

Cheers,

Schwarzenegger

[C_F_McBlob]

Schwarzenegger wrote:

...If I dump IE altogether won’t that affect Windows Live Mail?

You can't "dump" IE. Just stop using it. Windows Explorer shares about 90% of its files with Internet Explorer, so it has to remain installed or you'll never see the end of Windows problems. And Windows Live Mail is accessed through Outlook, or Windows Mail, not IE.