MacroMedia Flash Player!

Hey, so appearantly i need to download Macromedia Flash Player, but everytime i google it, click the suggested link (adobe) and download Macromedia Flash Player 9 from there it just loads for a bit and then says that it was installed successfully, but still i have no macromedia flash player...

and suggestions?

 

Clear your temp files and reboot, and try the download again. That's always been a pesky download to get right the first time, at least since Adobe bought it.

 

Yea, well im slightly retarded when it comes to computers... So if you could explain to me how to get to my tempfiles that would be sweet haha.
sorry.

 

Do you have anything installed that will clear your temp/junk files? If not, you may have a considerable backlog going there.

This is the most popular cleaner:

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=4191

 

alright well its downloaded and installed... and i've got it only checked on temporary files and macromedia flash player. and I DO want to permanetly delete these files?

 

Just go with the default settings; it's safe.

 

Sweet, now that i delete a shit load of stuff, do i just download and install macromedia again from adobe?

 

Yes, try the download again. Reboot the computer first.

 

hi. ive had exactly the same problem and followed these steps too but i still cant get it. anyother ideas please?

 

Yes. Make sure you go to add/remove programs, remove all of the adobe stuff. Clean the temp files as suggested and then go to adobe: http://www.adobe.com/downloads/ and start over. Reboot between cleaning, removing and again after installing.

 

hi. have done that again and still no luck. the adobe site tells me as soon as i click on download that it has been successful but it is telling me lies!!

 

Fellow Geeks: Here's "the fix" which worked for me...

A few months ago; I was also having the exact same "already been installed" problem. Every time I went to a site that required Flash to view any videos; the site would invariably produce an error message saying that I needed to "upgrade" my Macromedia Flash Player. When I'd then upgrade and return to the video sites; I would continue to receive the same exact error over and over again!

According to the information provided in this "Uninstallation" link, which Bladesofhalo gave me at that time: “Due to recent enhancements with the Flash Player installers, you are now only able to uninstall by using the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller.” The proper "uninstaller" tool is available at that same link (above).

In any case, the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller listed at the link above fixed this problem (in a "flash") and allowed me to install the latest version of the Adobe Flash Player, which can be found at this link without any problems; and I'm now able to view videos again!

I contacted the "support" at the flash site after this happened and was told that many of the more aggressive cleaning and registry cleaning programs are most often times, the "root cause" of this problem. Flash uses "ActiveX" and if you have you have your cleaner set to remove the ActiveX registry entries, this can cause your computer's Flash Playing capability to go on the blink.

Side Note: Thanks again to both Major Geeks forum members Bladesofhalo and JerkyKing for providing the links to "fix" this annoying problem a few months back!

Good Luck!

 

I have been trying for several hours to re-download Flash Player today after my existing version just stopped working today. I followed the links in this thread & uninstalled it then tried to re-install, with IE, Netscape & Firefox but had no luck.

I went to the Adobe forums & read that this has been a problem for months & Adobe have not addressed it. One user had success by downloading it from a mirror site but when I try to that, it downloands a .dmg file that asks for an associated program & I cannot complete the installation.

If anyone knows of a mirror site where it can be downloaded then I'd be grateful to hear about it.

 

Ditto...I've been through this thread to the letter and still not been able to successfully download it either. Ever since my laptop came back from a replacement HD and RAM install I cannot get Macromedia on it.

 

Got it! That has to be the biggest tantrum I've ever seen a piece of software have!!

 

thanks for that COMPUABLE. i got it to install at last....

 

Yeah~ FOund the link the other day that you supplied above from Adobe for Uninstalling. Everything is fine now for me too~~Thanks as always~~tom