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

[windstar]

Hi Kurt,


I had problems (who does not) with MS products and (oops) the support in

germany is f.... good!!!!

Try it


Ivo :-))


Kurt Dommermuth schrieb:


> 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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