FLASH: Flash Player won't install - Window 2000 - IE 5

[Kurt Dommermuth]

Hi All,


I hope someone out there can help!  I recently put together a new computer.

AMD Athlon 650 - Windows 2000 professional.  Of course while installing

Windows 2000, IE 5 is automatically installed as well.  For a few days of

use, IE 5 played flash no problem.  Then I must have done something because

now when I go to any Flash site I get the dreaded "X" instead of the flash

movie. 


I tried going to macromedia and reinstalling the latest flash plug-in, but

it doesn't even "see" that I have IE 5.  The installation doesn't start.  I

had to go and manually get the file.  


I tried manually forcing it to load into the IE 5 Plug-in folder, which

starts to work, but I get an error that it "can't find netscape.exe" to

finish the installation.


Most frustratingly I tried to uninstall IE 5 but for the life of me it

won't let me.  There is no uninstall executable and if you try to just grab

some files and toss them into the can, windows automatically rebuilds them.

 (I guess this is MS trying to be helpful, but it makes for an awful

feeling of no control.)


I tried reinstalling IE 5 over the original installation, but of course it

"sees" that IE 5 is already installed and it won't let me have the full

download.


I looked on my windows 2000 disk and as far as I can tell IE 5 is

indistinguishable from the OS.  so I can't reinstall from there.


Any ideas?  Has this already been addressed?  I'm missing something really

simple right?  


TIA,

Kurt

http://www.dommermuth-1.com


 


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