IE Macromedia Problem.....

Hi,

I was hoping that someone might be able to help. I am having trouble with
Macromedia Flash in IE, in that everytime I delete my IE history, cookies, files
etc, I keep losing MFlash, and have to reinstall all the time. I am running Win Xp and IE6. I also run Mozilla Firefox, but dont experience the same problem with FFox. Only seems to happen in IE. Please help.

 

The activeX control for flash player gets stored in C:\Windows\DownloadedProgramFiles folder, which is also accessible in IE tools>IE options>General tab, clicking settings button under temporary internet files section, then view objects. Are you deleting those when you clear history and temps?

 

Dave,

Thanks for prompt reply. Yes I have noticed that when I delete temp internet files, the file swflash.inf is deleted from C:/windows/downloaded program files.
I have tried moving this file out of the folder prior to doing this to see if this helps (only to my desktop), but didn't have any effect. I'd imagine moving it to the desktop probably wouldn't help anyway. I have installed XP SP2 recently, but cant say exactly if this problem started directly after that. It has however only been recently that the trouble has started.

Greg.

 

I think I have a similar problem and it only started to happend after SP2. I installe Macromedia from the actual site and thought this was fine then when I go to other sites they ask me to install to make the site function correctly. I clean my tif's on and offline plus my history folder before shutting down at night. I thought perhaps it was to do with the new Goldbar SP2 installed for IE Macromedia show the installation to be successful but other sites seem to think I need it!

 

I would recommend you uninstall both the Shockwave Player and the Flash Player, delete all of the ActiveX controls that exist for it in Downloaded Program Files, then reinstall both.

 

Fixed it...

Been away for a few days, but in my case the problem seemed to be related to simply installing flash player directly through IE online (if that makes sense). I downloaded Mflash to desktop and installed from there, must put the
program to a different file or something, not sure, but it has worked to this point. The funnier thing is that I do have a second computer running XP with SP2 installed as well, yet I have not had the same problem with that one. Installing Mflash online was fine for that machine. Computers I guess are abit like people, no two the same!!.

Thanks for your help.

Timberman

 

Timberman,

Good to hear all is well.

Christer,

That's the first Flash Player problem I've seen that's not a problem.

 

Where is the version of Flash which you can select to download to the desktop and then install? When I go to Macromedia I don't have that option it just tells me install was successful

Edit: I have just found the standalone version - sorry

 

Very often when you go to a site that requires Flash Player to run, but you have disabled "Run ActiveX controls and plugins" in IE Tools|Internet Options|Security tab|Custom Level, you will be told that you need to install Flash Player, even when it is already installed.
You have to change the ActiveX control setting. Then you will not get the message, certainly not after you have in fact downloaded Flash once.

 

Thanks, guys...since SP2, Macromedia has been broken, here. I'm going to try your suggestions, Dave, and if that doesn't work, I'm going to keep on pretending I didn't wanna see that flashy stuff anyway!

Johanna

 

I have just checked my settings and they are set to 'Run Active X' controls in all bar the Restricted Zone yet I am prompted to download the Active X on various sites even though Flash is actually installed Would it be these could be 'unsigned' ones and this needs to be changed also in the zones to 'prompt'?