Problem with Flash in IE7 ?

Monday, February 19, 2007

Maybe your are experiencing this like me: Your IE7 do not show flash content from some websites, even with Flash Player 9 installed on your system, and everything working fine with IE6 or Firefox.

The fact is for some reasons IE7 corrupt Flash Plugin, in result flash detection on websites do not work. And if you try to click on one of the "upgrade Flash plugin" button the browser consider it is already installed.

Here is a solution:

Close all open programs
Run Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller
Reinstall the Flash player

[From http://blog.deconcept.com/2006/12/08/corrupt-flash-player-install-after-ie-7-upgrade/]

If this do not work you can also try :

Download the Flash Player standalone installer for Internet Explorer
Then right-click on the installer and choose "Run as Administrator".

[From http://weblogs.asp.net/derekh/archive/2005/08/16/422743.aspx]

3 Comments

Thanks for the insightful solution. This has been driving me nuts, but your run as administrator solution has my flash plugin working as promised.

Now any solution to Adobe Reader in IE7?

Phillip - Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:43:31 AM

I can't thank you enough for this post! You saved me from going bonkers!

Adrian - Monday, March 5, 2007 11:43:56 AM

Thanks for this information, saved what little hair I had being pulled out!

Roger - Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:57:02 AM

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