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    Adobe Flash Player Installer Keeps Popping Up

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by jpzsports, Oct 9, 2009.

  1. jpzsports

    jpzsports Notebook Evangelist

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    For the past few days, I've been randomly getting a popup from UAC asking to allow the Internet Explorer Addon Installer and when I click continue it is the adobe flash player Add-on installer. I've tried ignoring the UAC prompt, allowing it and then clicking Install and also Don't Install but no matter what I do, it keeps popping back up every few minutes. I've tried Uninstalling and Reinstalling Flash for both IE and Firefox, but I still get the popups. It's driving me nuts.

    Any ideas??

    Thanks
     
    jpzsports, Oct 9, 2009
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  2. FatManChan

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    And this belongs in the gaming section because?
     
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  3. jpzsports

    jpzsports Notebook Evangelist

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    Sorry, my bad. Don't know how I put this here...

    Can a mod move this to the Windows section?

    Thanks

    EDIT: Thanks for moving it..

    So, anyone in here have any ideas? :rolleyes:
     
    jpzsports, Oct 9, 2009
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  4. FatManChan

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    Well now that we're in the right place, sure! (sorry for being an earlier).

    I had that on my old dell. All I could do was do a fresh OS install. You could try getting rid of all traces of adobe flash player on your system and then reinstalling
     
    FatManChan, Oct 9, 2009
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    Are you running the 64bit version of IE? this can cause incompatibilities with flash player. (I had the same issue, and it installed and went away once I did it in the 32 bit version)
     
    Lanaya, Oct 9, 2009
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    newsposter, Oct 9, 2009
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    I plan on installing Windows 7 in a few weeks so I won't do anything too drastic, but I did try uninstalling Flash and Shockwave and then reinstalling but I still get the popups...

    I use Firefox as my default browser. My computer has both 64 bit and regular IE, but I don't use them.

    It says that everything is working and updated to the latest version.
     
    jpzsports, Oct 9, 2009
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    Since you have the latest version, you could check the "don't check for updates" option, disable updates temporarily and terminate any process related to it.
     
    TwiztidKidd, Oct 10, 2009
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    or try the standard windows problem solver; deinstall flash and shockwave and reinstall. Sometimes it's faster/easier/more reliable to do that (in a windows machine) than to try and troubleshoot.
     
    newsposter, Oct 11, 2009
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    Tried running a virus scan?

    cheers ...
     
    qhn, Oct 11, 2009
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