I have Win 7 Home Premium. Not sure how long but maybe for a couple of weeks now I've been having a lot of trouble with Flash Player. I regularly do Angus Reid surveys and they require Flash Player. Almost each time I get one now, when I go to their web site (with IE 11) it tells me that I need Flash Player and it does not appear to be installed and provides a link to to check. This Adobe site tells me it is not installed or enabled. However checking IE's Manage Add-Ons shows Shockwave Flash Object is Enabled. Control Panel's Flash Player Settings Manager' Updates tab is showing ActiveX Version 19.0.0.245 which is the latest version.

Anyway I have repeatedly gone to the Adobe Flash Player Download link to reinstall it and after the installation procedure has successfully completed, it appears to have been installed and everything works fine. That is, until the next time I need to use Flash Player and I'm back to that same situation where it tells me it is not installed. This has been going round in circles now for a couple of weeks. Incidentally, when I go to the download page and click the Download button (after unchecking that damn 'optional' Google Toolbar offer) the installer runs to about 75% and then pops up a message telling me to close Internet Explorer and then click Continue. Seems really odd that their installer is telling you to close IE part way through the install procedure when the web page is clearly stating 'Step 2 of 3' which means that at the conclusion of the install you should be taken to the next web page (Step 3). So that doesn't make much sense.

OCX files, such as flash.ocx, are COM (Component Object Model) interface technologies often referred to as an ActiveX control. ActiveX controls are tiny programs, sometimes called 'add-ons', that are used on websites and in software applications.

If the installer needs the web page closed, shouldn't it do that itself? Anyway I do close the web page and then the installer will finish the installation. (I seem to remember earlier Flash Player installs completing automatically without requesting the browser be closed.) [Edit: Just checked after reinstalling again and when it finishes. After hanging at 90% for a rather long time. It then automatically opens the web page to the Step 3 page.] Any thoughts on why my Flash Player seems to 'self-destruct'? Reminds me of the old Mission Impossible TV show where in the opening scenes Jim Phelp's cassette tape with mission instructions would self-destruct after playing! (Computers and I are not the best of friends but we generally get along most of the time.

Today being Friday the 13th was a particularly crappy day at my work as there were numerous problems, mostly related to issues with our cloud hosting service's hardware which fortunately their tech support was quick to respond and correct as they are a local company.). This seems representative of the problem that Firefox has had for years now. It just can't handle the Flash thing. Every few days, some page or other will say 'needs Flash' or 'Flash not installed'. I have to redownload the installer and run it again, and then things are fine for a few days.

I can't find any answers as to whether a given AddOn may be causing the problem, but it is widespread among Firefox users. Oh, and Flash is simply the browser plugin, while Shockwave Flash Player is the offline tool, right? No one really uses that anymore, do they? A clean install would be good, but it could be that you have remnants of an old version on your system which will not go away and are coming back to bite you. Use an uninstaller such as Revo to thoroughly uninstall it, including a Registry scan, and then check the location Windows System32 Macromed Flash, and delete anything that is in there. If you have a 64 bit system, do the same for Syswow64 Macromed Flash.

Kenneth frampton modern architecture. It could also be that you have an outdated auto updater running. Check your startup items, and your scheduled tasks, and remove anything related to Flash. This will detect your browser and offer you the correct version for that browser - ignore any offers for spurious software, and download/install it. If you want to use Flash in more than one browser, you will need to do this from within each browser. For what it's worth, I use it with FF 42 and have no problems, certainly not of the kind described.

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