Macromedia Flash Player 6

Question

Suddenly, whenever I click on a link in an email within Outlook, I get a blank Macromedia Flash Player 6 window.  I used to (and need to) just go to the internet site in an existing IE window.  What happened, and how do I fix it?  I have a Dell 4500 running XP Pro.

BigBrother · Answer

PhelpsHawk, You can download and install an updated flash player as well as an updated shockwave player from this link: http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/ Steve

PhelpsHawk · Answer

Sorry, Steve ...

I've done all this ... have reconfigured my startup ... and have rebooted my machine.

Still, when I click on the Outlook message that says I have a reply to this posting, all I get is

a new blank window titled Macromedia Flash Point 6. Should I do a System Restore?

BigBrother · Answer

PhelpsHawk, You can try a system restore if you know when this particular problem started.  Are you sure that the error message says 'Flash Point 6' ? Steve

PhelpsHawk · Answer

Also ... Macromedia suggests that I'll have to use ActiveX controls to get Flash Player 7.0. But I thought security folks are saying to avoid ActiveX because it leaves your system vulnerable. And that's a key message from the Mozilla Firefox folks.

PhelpsHawk · Answer

Will that allow me to bypass Flash Player 6 ... as far as I know, I never use it.

BigBrother · Answer

PhelpsHawk,

The newest Flash player will play Flash 6 movies. If you want to use Flash, you have to have ActiveX enabled. You do not want to automatically download ActiveX controls. You want to have the choice to accept or decline the installation of ActiveX and other plug-ins for Internet Explorer.

Steve

PhelpsHawk · Answer

There is NO error message. I want the hyperlinks in Outlook email to take me to the

website in the link, NOT to a new window titled Macromedia Flash Player 6. This just started today, and I've never, to my knowledge, used Flash Player 6 (though I do have Dreamweaver on my machine courtesy of my teenager).

BigBrother · Answer

PhelpsHawk, Since this just started, a system restore would probably work just fine to resolve this issue.   Steve

PhelpsHawk · Answer

Thanks, Steve ...   That's what I did, and I'm back to working just fine.  Annoys me that I couldn't figure out what was happening, though.  Many thanks.

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