Can't use Adobe Flash with IE 6

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I have a 6 year old Dell and I suddenly lost the ability to watch videos with
IE 6. Firefox works fine.

It tells me I am missing Adobe Flash. But I've been to the Adobe web site
and have loaded it many times. I don't get any error, it just won't load,
and it won't work.

I can't use IE 7. I work at home a lot and my company does not support IE
7. I have the old Dell, which is Windows XP Home Edition, and a new HP with
Windows Vista. But my company won't support Windows Vista, either. I have
some computer savvy co-workers who got my new computer up and working with
Vista except for one thing: it has IE 7 on it.

So I have two computers I can't use for work because one of them has IE 6 on
it and it tells me I don't have Adobe Flash, and the other one has IE 7 on it
and my own Help Desk won't talk to me when I tell them that.

I'd be greatful for any suggestions.
 
So I have two computers I can't use for work because one of them has IE
6 on it and it tells me I don't have Adobe Flash, and the other one has
IE 7 on it and my own Help Desk won't talk to me when I tell them that.

I'd be greatful for any suggestions.
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I've had this in the past, I got a program from the Flash web site (
flash player remove.exe ) which removed the old bits so you could re-
instal.

That worked a while but suddenly failed so I downloaded Flash 7, 8 & 9
as stand alone versions and worked upwards, no problems so far.

I think the original problem was caused by a cleanup program knocking
bits out it shouldn't.

Mike
 
No luck. I get the same thing I always get. It seems like it works except
it's too quick to have actually tried to download anything. On the other
Adobe page that Youtube sends me to, it's almost as if I haven't agreed to
the agreement. That's the best way I can describe what happens. I click on
the "I agree" box and hit "Install Now" and it just recyles the page back to
that. I get no error message, it just keeps reloading the page as if I
didn't attempt the download. Like it wants me to agree to the agreement.
Which I already agreed to.

My company requires so many hours of training and the training site will not
let me proceed using the Dell with IE 6 because it tells me I don't have
Macromedia Flash and the link takes me to the same page as YouTube does,
which is Adobe. I can use Mozzilla fine, so I'm not sure what happened to my
IE 6. I try to be careful when it comes to what I load and open and I don't
remember anything that may have caused it.

It won't proceed using the HP with Windows Vista because it says I have
"pop blocker disabled" and it should be enabled, and my friend who got
everything else to work with the Windows Vista machine told me there was
nothing he could do about that. He said that you can't remove IE 7 from
Vista, and you can't have both IE 6 and IE 7 on a Vista machine. He said
that the problem with IE 7 is that our company just hasn't adapted to it and
there is no way to fix it because whatever it is looking at is wrong on our
end. I can't fix the pop-up blocker thing because it's not looking at the
right thing. And they won't fix it.

Sorry, but what I know about computers you could fit on the head of a pin
and still have room left over. I was hoping someone might know what I could
do to fix IE 6 on my Dell and I could keep using that until my company got up
to speed with Vista and IE 7.

I can always go in the office to get my training hours. ICK.
 
Problems with previous versions of Flash can cause these issues - if they
remain on the system:
How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_14157 - uninstall all Flash files on your system,
then reinstall.

If no joy....
Registry permissions required for Flash Player install or update
http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_19148
Troubleshooting system registry issues that prevent Flash Player
installation
http://www.adobe.com/go/kb400116

Also make sure you are not running any toolbar or "security" software with a
"block Flash" setting.

If still no joy, post this issue here where Adobe Support folk can see it:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm?catid=184&forumid=44
 
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