Hollywood79 Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Please help, I have Microsoft Windows XP (not a mac user) and am stuck with Flash Player 6. Everytime I go to Macromedia to download Flash Player 8, I get the flash banner saying it was successfully installed, but it never is. Rebooting doesnt do anything either. I also turned off my firewall, but that still didnt help. I went to my add/remove programs sections to try to remove Flash Player 6, and it wasnt even on there. However Flash Player 8 was in that section, and it would not let me change/remove. I do have Macromedia Dreamweaver MX, but it is the older version from a few years ago. Maybe that is conflicting with the plug ins? Can anyone please help? thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boris Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Try downloading the standalone installer and running it from your PC ?Link to it here :- http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood79 Posted June 18, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 Try downloading the standalone installer and running it from your PC ?Link to it here :- http://www.softwarepatch.com/internet/flash.htmlThanks Boris, I hadnt seen that link before. However it still does not work and I am still stuck w/ version 6 after I installed it from that link. I even uninstalled Macromedia Flash MX, which is part of my Dreamweaver package and I still couldnt access version 8. As a matter of fact when I uninstalled Flash MX I had no flash player on my PC, even after reinstalling version 8. I think it must be something with my Dreamweaver, because why else could I not install and use version 8? The other weird thing is on my add/remove section version 8 is their, but it wont let me remove it. When I try to open a flash file with a different program, version 8 is nowhere to be found on my PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 I recently had the same problem. The only cure that I could find was to uninstall the program, then search for remaining files and manually delete these. I then ran Crap Cleaner and RegScrub XP, and the installation then worked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dagwoood Posted June 18, 2006 Report Share Posted June 18, 2006 I also recently had problems with Flash; I couldn't get it to delete properly and so I couldn't do a fresh install. I did cure it however by downloading the Flash uninstaller from Adobe and re-installing from here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood79 Posted June 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 I also recently had problems with Flash; I couldn't get it to delete properly and so I couldn't do a fresh install. I did cure it however by downloading the Flash uninstaller from Adobe and re-installing from here.Thanks dagwood. I havent tried that method, but I just did now and it still didnt work. I dont think its my PC because the same thing happened to my other PC, also a Microsoft Windows XP one. I may have to just uninstall my entire Macromedia Dreamweaver MX program when I have time tomorrow. But if its not that, then I dont know whats going on. The only common link I can think of between the 2 PC's that couldnt upgrade to Flash 8 is Dreamweaver. Even the anti-virus on the other PC is different. I cant figure out what else would be the problem, especially since I used the link you sent and removed Flash 8 totally from the PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Have you not tried my suggestion? It worked on my computer. Just uninstalling will not remove all the files. A search and then using CC and RegScrub does remove therm all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood79 Posted June 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2006 Have you not tried my suggestion? It worked on my computer. Just uninstalling will not remove all the files. A search and then using CC and RegScrub does remove therm all.Thanks, I will try that and let you know what happens. I sure hope this works because I need Flash Player 8. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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