error message 'can't find flash.ocx'

Discussion in 'Software' started by clh, May 23, 2008.

  1. clh

    clh Private E-2

    Hi, Since I installed flashplayer last week (after youtube quit working) I have gotten a popup error message reading "can't find flash.ocx" -- it shows up about every 10 minutes. I tried to log onto trendmicro to run housecalls to check things out and as soon as that error message pops up, if I move the cursor at all (not clicking anything, just move the mouse) firefox shuts down. So far I've experimented with running a couple of online tools, and housecall is the only one that closes the browser.
    Per my brother's advice I ran a registry tweak from softpedia, hoping things got cleaned up, but the darn thing showed up again this am. I'm not a complete novice but am not technical enough to know what to do to fix my box.

    I am running AVG 7.5, spybot (just reinstalled) AdAware (also just reinstalled) in hopes I can make sure my box is clean. This all started because I bought an audio controller, and could not get it installed properly, then started having problems with audio and video. I'm about to suck it up and buy a Mac. That's desperate.
     
  2. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member


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