Comments on: Fixing Flash Player Plugin for Internet Explorer Issue

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:55:11 +0000

Thought I’d add my quick story — I installed CS3 (Web collection) and started running into the issue with flash not working on certain sites only with IE7. Flash did work on a vast majority of sites, but some that I frequent daily (espn.com for example) stopped working.

I’d tried uninstalling the plugin and re-installing but it didn’t work. Luckily, using your step 1 (the clean uninstall) and then re-installing (without messing with the regsitry portion) I was able to get it working again.

Big thanks for posting this though — definitely saved me from a potential headache.

By: MoiAussi

MoiAussi — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:54:50 +0000

I tried d3vilsp4wn’s solution first and it worked perfectly!!

“Close all Internet Explorer windows and related applications.
Run Command Prompt (as an Administrator if you’re on Windows Vista).
Go to C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash (or C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash on Windows 64-bit).
Run FlashUtil9f.exe (or similar executable file inside the folder) and follow the instructions to install.
If it doesn’t work on restarting internet explorer then try restarting your pc.”

Bravo for both solutions…a frustrating issue is finally solved.

By: JP

JP — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:30:16 +0000

It works perfectly fine for IE8 too! Thks for the brilliant solution!!!

By: d3vilsp4wn

d3vilsp4wn — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:19:17 +0000

This is what i did and upon opening up the web page i was formerly on it immediately began to display the previously unseen images.

Close all Internet Explorer windows and related applications.
Run Command Prompt (as an Administrator if you’re on Windows Vista).
Go to C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash (or C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash on Windows 64-bit).
Run FlashUtil9f.exe (or similar executable file inside the folder) and follow the instructions to install.
If it doesn’t work on restarting internet explorer then try restarting your pc.

By: scott

scott — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:04:58 +0000

thanks very much

By: Andy Slade

Andy Slade — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:57:03 +0000

You would think that MS would be more helpful in fixing bugs with their software. Thanks for the fix which worked a treat and enabled me to see my own web site in ie 7.

By: Anne Mcfarland

Anne Mcfarland — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:14:17 +0000

Hi i am using the new vista and i have tried your way with the windows xp is there a way to fix the vista issue it wont reconized the unistall command you have there

By: Jaya

Jaya — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:21:06 +0000

Hello,

I have the same problem, but cannot unzip reset_minimal.zip. Can someone, please advise. When trying to unzip it, it gives me the following error, : Cannot create reset_minimal.cmd, access is denied. And I am the administrator. Does not even ask for permission. Just an exclamation mark! I would be garteful if someone can send me the unzipped version of the above file (reset_minimal.cmd) to my e-mail: el_yaneva@yahoo.com . I searched for days on the internet cannot find it. I guess my problem with the Flash Player came when i installed the Flash CS3 Professional, but this is just a guess.

Thank you everyone and Happy Holidays!

By: Mike Jones

Mike Jones — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:34:57 +0000

This fix seemed to work on one machine, on another though no such luck. Loading the swf file in Internet explorer 6 still leaves us with a blank page.

I did notice that subinacl had 1 failure ? Anyone have any suggestions ?

Thx

By: Steve Moore

Steve Moore — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:23:20 +0000

Thanks for this fix as a novice this was driving me nuts