Resolved [some flash videos not playing on IE 9]

Hi All! My wife's Vista Home Premium SP2 (32 bit) IE9 will not play flash videos on some sites one in particular she wants to see. It plays in Chrome ok. There are no messages it just doesn't open and play. I have been searching for days and trying everything I have found but to know avail. I came across another site that won't play also. I have uninstalled SP2 & IE9 and done a inplace upgrade with my Vista upgrade disc then reinstalled everything including Adobe Flash, which is up to date. It did not change anything. Any more ideas? Thanks.

 

You might try updating your codecs

http://www.filehippo.com/download_vista_codec_package/

 

I want to warn everyone about this link for Vista codec package. It is very dangerous. When I went to the site I could not figure out which link was for the codec package, there are several download buttons, you are flooded with pup optional malware and I picked up three Trojans, one critical, luckily they were all blocked. After all that, the codecs didn't solve the problem. Do flash videos require codecs?

 

Try the suggestion in the following link. Instead of FlashUtil9 it should be FlashUtil32_12.x.x.exe for 32 bit and possible FlashUtil64_12.x.x.exe for 64 bit. Codecs shouldn't have anything to do with Flash and IE.

Vista: Getting Adobe Flash Player to Work

 

Sorry about that. It's the big green button on the right that says "Download latest version." MSE, Malwarebytes and Clamwin showed the downloaded file to be clean. McAfee Site Advisor rates that specific filehippo link as "safe ". See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Video for flv codecs.

 

Thanks for the article, interesting. I need a bigger brain to absorb the technology of computing.

 

If you still have the problem, try Adobe's IE9 "ActiveX Filtering" page:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/867968?tstart=0
and the help page for IE:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/install-flash-player-windows.html
and the Main Adobe forum page for flashplayer:
http://forums.adobe.com/community/flashplayer

 

Tried your link. All I get from that is the uninstall for Adobe. Just for the heck of it I ran that again, which I have done many times, and this time I searched thru the reg. with regedit for Adobe and deleted everything I found. Then reinstalled Adobe with administrator rights, which I have done many times, and I still have the issue. Thanks.

 

Yes I have been thru all of that. That's the first place I checked for this issue. The active-x filter is not enabled and when it is enabled the issue is worse. Thanks.

 

I believed you when you said in your original post that you had tried everything. That's why the Hail Mary on codecs. Flashplayer is integrated in chrome. You say it works fine. Why stick with IE? Is it the desire to understand the problem and fix it? Some would say Vista is not fixable, and that it why Microsoft abandoned it. Current market share is only 3.10%.

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0

 

I would love to figure it out because it bugs me. It also works on my 8.1 with IE 11. She keeps Chrome installed now for that purpose. Compatibility view doesn't make a difference either. IE is the old familiarity thing. Thanks.

 

Tenacity and patience can sometimes equal a bigger brain. Good luck.