Comments on: Flash 10c Fix

By: meghan

meghan — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 20:18:26 +0000

thank you! i began having problems a week or so ago after a “critical” windows 7 update. i followed your steps and lo and behold – flash is working again! thanks again!

By: David

David — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:55:15 +0000

I never had a problem with IE and Flash until upgrading to Windows 7 and IE 8. I tried both your initial Flash 10 fix and this Flash 10c fix, and it still doesn’t work! I can view YouTube videos etc. in FireFox, but not in IE 8. It’s no wonder to me that FireFox usage is increasing while IE is declining.

By: Ric

Ric — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:42:24 +0000

have read almost all the fixes, problems, etc…. have run or tried most of them but still have an issue…. Running vista 32 ulitimate, ie 8, all updates done, etc. My issue is that adobe flash keeps wanting to install everytime I start ie8, or, if started, when I change pages. I let it install.. get the popup windows, my security software shows 3 tmp files for which I give permission to run.. then a quick popup windown I can’t read.. and all is fine, till I close-reopen ie8. Flash programs seem to work fine (I can see the dog on skateboard vid), but its a pain in the a.. er posterior to have to go thru this setup every time. The one thing I didn’t try was to remove silverlight. This problem never existed prior to upgrading to ie8. As usual, Microsoft has left all of us end users to be their unpaid beta testers and software troubleshooters. Thanks to all of you for posting fixes…

By: The Editor

The Editor — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:11:25 +0000

FM: Try deleting running the uninstall util in Windows safe mode.

By: FM

FM — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:42:59 +0000

Also, what started this whole mess was a dialogue box that popped up a few times a day while i was in IE that stated a problem with flash10c.ocx. This would make IE stop working and I’d have to reconnect. Video playback was never an issue though, everything I clicked on would play with very little common problems.

By: FM

FM — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:38:42 +0000

To the Editor
I’ve tried this fix and all your others but I’m still stuck with the flashutil10b.exe folder inside macromed. I’ve done everything imaginable thats been mentioned all over the web and I still cannot delete that file. I’ve dragged it to the desktop, renamed it, etc.

You mentioned in another fix that as long as there’s a Flash folder in the Macromed file the uninstall is not complete. No matter how many times i change the owner or how many rights I give it I still get the same message when I try to remove the read-only attribute: An error occurred applying attributes to the file….access is denied…
This along with the fact that it needs MY PERMISSION yet all it does is tell me to TRY AGAIN when i right-click to delete it has driven me to the point where i just want to give this pc away and jump to a mac.

My pc is 32bit and runs on vista home premium. I dont understand why I can’t just delete something from my own computer. thanks for any new help you may have!

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:05:34 +0000

Any fix for Mac having the same problem?

By: RG

RG — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:03:10 +0000

I saw this comment on the prior post:
“I eventually sorted it in ie 8 by going to tools > Manage Add-ons > add on types toolbars and extensions and enabling shockwave flash object.”

that worked for me! Every time I had installed, it said it was finished but then flash would not work.

By: RG

RG — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 19:20:00 +0000

I have windows xp pro, ie7, and this fix did not work for me.
I did not have problems when I downloaded flash the first time (sometime in the last 6 months), only when I went to the update 10c.

By: The Editor

The Editor — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:00:57 +0000

No idea Rebecca!?