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Damn Flash 6!
Posted: Thu May 01, 2003 1:16 pm
by Nippy
Why in the name of God is this mucking me about so much! On both machines at home, I go to sites like
http://www.infiniumlabs.com or
http://www.whoswestudios.com and I get the "Flash 6 player not installed" message. Fine. I go and install it, it says it works fine, and I can't get into the sites.
Any ideas folks?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 11:23 am
by HighLordDave
Do those sites download and install Flash 6 for you or do they re-direct you to Macromedia's website?
You might try uninstalling and reinstalling Flash straight from Macromedia.com
Does it happen at other Flash sites or just those two?
Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 11:58 am
by Nippy
They re-direct you to Macromedia.com, and that installation goes fine.
How can I uninstall Flash? Where's the option under?
I'm pretty sure that the only error I get is from sites needing Flash 6.
Posted: Mon May 05, 2003 9:46 pm
by KidD01
Well Macromedia site also refering to restart your CPU if something not working (which was suppose to enable Macromedia ActiveX after the restart process) Have you do that ?
I tried to check on oth sites and install flash 6 like they ask and got noprob so far.
Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 7:46 am
by Quark
Quick question: what browser are you using?
Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 11:45 am
by Nippy
IE 6.0.2600.
Posted: Wed May 07, 2003 1:20 pm
by HighLordDave
Have you checked your browser's security settings to make sure that plug-in installation and use is running?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 9:47 am
by Nippy
As far as I can tell under Internet Properties, there's no problems with installing Flash or programs of it's like, it looks OK to me, at any rate...
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 1:09 pm
by HighLordDave
When in doubt, fdisk>format>reinstall.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 1:30 pm
by Nippy
Raaaghhh! Re-install Windows entirely?!
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 1:49 pm
by HighLordDave
If the only problem you are having is with Flash webpages, a full re-installation is a bit drastic, but if you exhaust all of your other options, that may end up as your only recourse.
Have you tried installing a different browser and seeing if the problem occurs with Netscape's Flash plug-in?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 2:22 pm
by Nippy
I haven't, no. I was wary of installing another browser, but I have used Opera before, I may try that and see what happens, I'll post the results once I've downloaded in a minute or two...
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 2:50 pm
by Nippy
Surprise surprise, it worked. Must be a glitch for me. At any rate, Infinium labs site and Who's We studios is awesome, I'd recommend people take a look and see.
Posted: Thu May 08, 2003 6:13 pm
by Quark
The reason I asked browser is because Flash has issues with the Mozilla derivitive Firebird (formerly known as Phoenix), mainly the fact that it doesn't create registry entries.
I'm not surprised another browser worked, as they're completely different plugins. If you still want to use IE, I'm out of ideas since I have no idea how to reset that to it's 'original' state without re-installing windows. Personally, I'd never go back to IE though.