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Flash Installed But Not Working

I really like the new MS Virtual Earth Radar on weather.com, it is much better than its predecessor.  Anyway, it suddenly stopped working and kept prompting me to install Flash, then I would hit the link, install etc., and Adobe reported that Flash 9 was successfully installed...However, the radar still didn't show up and some other interactive real estate sites were not either.

This seemed to start happening after I switched to the very cool and new my.yahoo Beta, but I do not think that caused it.  I am also running Vista with IE 7 of course.

So I started Googling around and found out that other people had the same issue.  The solution is to unistall flash and then re-install it.  This is something I should have done, but didn't...so I thought I would share this with everybody.

To uninstall Flash you must use their uninstall executable which can be found here.  Good Luck!

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Anonymous said…
Well I've been using the uninstall util to remove Flash, then reinstalling it freshly every few days, since early March now. It works fine for a few days, then just stops working again. In other words, for me at least, the uninstall routine is NOT a permanent fix.

I note that Adobe release a new version (build 9.0.45) within the past few days. I have now installed that - hopefully they are now fully Vista compatible....

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