Computers and Internet: Melbourne Brisbane Computer Repairs, Website design & SEO

Friday, June 24, 2011

Posted: 23 Jun 2011 11:22 PM PDT

This computer is running windows 7 64-bit on an i5 CPU, and had been running well for about 9 months.

At some stage, the owner got the usual prompt to upgrade adobe flash player.

She does what she always does, and upgrades.

The upgrade to 10.2 seems to complete normally

But now ie8 will not run flash files (and prompts the owner to install flash, because its not installed).

I spend a few hours trying various tricks like:

But I do notice that flash actually works well with firefox & chrome…

So: the problem seems to be centered around Internet Explorer.

I eventually have to conceed defeat, but at least the customer is content to use firefox for now.

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