Fred Mastropasqua

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You may have noticed, if you're running Vista, that with the latest update to Flash Player 9.0.115.0, you no longer are seeing pages with Flash Content. You'll go to YouTube or GrandCentral.Com and notice that it tells you that you need the latest version of Flash.  You'll install it for the 50th time and still doesn't work.

Solution? You need an update to your Flash Player for Vista, which you can find located here, after you've installed the Flash Plug-in/Player.

Here are the steps I finally found from the Adobe site.

Windows Vista installation failure

On some Windows Vista systems Flash Player may be installed, but will not display Flash content. In some cases updating to the latest Flash Player using the included utility can correct the User Account Control settings that cause this problem.

To run the utility, find your installed Flash folder:

• Right-click C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil9d.exe

  The letter changes with each Flash version, so may be "FlashUtilb.exe" or "FlashUtile.exe"

• Select "Run as Administrator"

• Follow the steps to complete the Flash Player installation

• Restart your computer

Now, this only worked on my Vista 32bt OS, doesn't work so good on my 64bit.  Upon running the utility it doesn't seem to complete. So I took they Flash folder from my 32bit and over wrote the Flash folder on my 64bit. Located at C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash.

Seemed to fixed the problem after a reboot.

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