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so I've screwed up my computer... again...


Pete M
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so in my attempts to simply get embedded vids to play properly I wanted to reinstall the adobe flash stuff.  no problemo I thought, I'll just uninstall them and reinstall and see what happens.  so now I've discovered that I probably shouldn't have uninstalled the adobe activeX program because I cannot for the life of me find a place from which to reinstall it.  how badly have I screwed myself here?  nothing flash related works. 

 

in the flash player settings manager I see:

 

ActiveX version:            not installed

NPAPI Plug-in version:  15.0.0.223

PPAPI Plug-in version:  not installed

 

and I can't find a place to download what I'm assuming are the missing pieces.

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have you tried to reinstall adobe flash player from there website? is it included with that? also could try Microsoft if using IE maybe the active x is in the browsers DL. these are some ideas off the top of my head. it is a little out of my league.

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I downloaded straight from adobe's website, so I should be good there.  but I think I had firefox still open when I did the uninstall so I'm going to try again using the instructions in Jeep Driver's link.

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update:  I uninstalled, then reinstalled and it's the same.  so I uninstalled and left it out and so far I can see youtube vids and there are no error messages, but places like facebook still seem to need adobe to show embedded vids. whatever.   all-in-all I think this is a win. :D 

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update:  I uninstalled, then reinstalled and it's the same.  so I uninstalled and left it out and so far I can see youtube vids and there are no error messages, but places like facebook still seem to need adobe to show embedded vids. whatever.   all-in-all I think this is a win. :D

The reason you can see youtube vids now, Is because without Flash player present on your PC, Youtube defaults to a HTML5 video player, Which is built into your web browser.

 

 

http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

 

Are you using that link when installing flash? Make sure you uncheck the free scan, So you don't get that crap on your pc.

 

The only other thing i can think of is, Uninstall it, Restart your PC & Then re-install it.

 

Sometimes you need to retart to completely remove a program.

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