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Update: Adobe Flash 9 Windows Vista Fix
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Some people are still having trouble fixing Flash in Windows Vista, despite trying my original fix back in February. I am getting masses of emails and comments about it, mostly [fortunately] to say a successful fix, but a few not. So here goes with another line of attach:-
Go to the Control Panel > Choose Programs & Features > look for anything which is called ‘Adobe Flash Player’ or ‘Macromedia Flash Player’ and uninstall it. Make sure Internet Explorer is closed before you uninstall.
Download and install Flash from the following link (this is a manual install and not the usual Adobe Flash installation (but it is dead easy to do!): Adobe Flash Player download
Then you must restart the machine. Again, some people seem to be putting their machine into sleep mode and not actually restarting the machine. To make sure you restart do the following:-
Press Start > The ‘>‘ arrow to the right of the padlock symbol > Choose Restart
Then try the original post I did back in February: thetechangel.com/blogberry/2007/02/16/flash-player-and-windows-vista-fix/
If that still does not work for you try going to (in Internet Explorer):-
- Tools >
- Internet Options >
- Choose the Programs tab >
- press the manage ‘add-ons‘ button >
- In the window make sure that ‘Shockwave Flash object’ is enabled (enable/disable options are at the bottom of the window).
- Then OK your way out of the windows
- Close IE and then start it up and see what happens.
Tags: Adobe, Email, Fix, Flash, Internet, Internet Explorer, Windows Vista
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June 2nd, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Look man. The problem is, not all of us have a “security” tab under options. I know mine doesn’t and I too am using vista. Vista is bad, its not just flash thats the problem, it thinks programs are crashing when they are loading!!
June 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm
Aha found security now
June 13th, 2007 at 8:07 am
I did ALL the steps you suggested and still got issues.
Any other ideas?
Thanks
July 26th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
ugh why cant this be as easy as eating
i did everything but when i dl it i dont have the FlashUtil9b.exe
its the FlashUtil9e.exe only so i dont know what to do anymore… help asap?
September 12th, 2007 at 5:23 pm
Found a solution! In the folder C:/Wnidows/System32/Macromed/Flash, make sure you do not have more than 1 FlashUtil9_.exe. If you do (in my case it was 9c and 9d), move the older one to your desktop and run the newer one. It will ask you to upgrade your flash. Let it upgrade and install. Then it will prompt you to restart the system. Once restarted, it worked fine for us! good luck all!
October 7th, 2007 at 11:46 am
Not my luck! Jonny! I still suffered in this problem even I run ***9d and restart my computer. I also did all the steps suggested above, but cannot get away from this issue. I installed firefox to run flash now.
January 30th, 2008 at 8:02 am
My problem is that IE works fine with flash and java, but no sound in mozilla….
I’ve tried the fix you’ve shown here, but, alas to no avail…
I have a laptop that works fine in both, but my desktop… no go…
It seems like no sound at all works in firefox…
any ideas?
October 1st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
it still doenst work iv tried everything everything u have done work for everyone elese but not me
December 21st, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Thank you SO MUCH for the Shockwave Flash Object – enable advice – it fixed it for me.
VERY MUCH APPRECIATED
Regards Jeremy