I’ve been meaning to mention that on two different Vista boxes, the Flash runtime did not install in its usual seamless way. In both cases I wound up going to the Adobe website and installing manually from there. I believe I tried from both IE and Firefox, but I can’t remember for sure.
I promptly forgot about the issue, but heard about it recently from some other folks. Does anyone within earshot of this blog know what the issue might be?
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March 15, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Isn’t it something to do with Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere (WPF/E)?
March 15, 2007 at 4:46 pm
The new permissions strategy in Microsoft Windows Vista has produced support calls. Justin Everett-Church has the rundown on installation issues, and functionality constraints when using prior Player versionson Vista:
http://justin.everett-church.com/index.php/2007/02/21/flash-player-and-windows-vista/
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March 15, 2007 at 9:14 pm
Thanks, John, that’s very helpful.
“1. Express Install – The Express Install will not run. The user will see the permission dialog box but answering “yes” will not initiate the install. This is due to a different security model being in place in Vista that changes local file access.”
I believe that’s what happened to me on a Vaio that was upgrade from XP to Vista.
I /thought/ the same thing happened on an HP to which I did a fresh install of Vista — the express install didn’t work, and I would up going to the download center and doing a full install from there.
So my impression is that the recommendation, for now, should be to always do a full install. Does that sound right?
July 7, 2007 at 11:53 pm
I’ve been trying to install from the adobe flash cs3 dvd, but soon as it’s started on installing process, it keeps asking me to insert the dvd adobe flash cs3 professional. do you have any idea what it’s meant?
August 3, 2007 at 5:28 am
Is the “full install” free and where do you download it from?
Thanks
September 12, 2007 at 6:43 am
Have come across this on some XP machines as well.
Way I got round it was to Download the Flash Uninstaller, Uninstall Flash then Google Flash Version Checker.
This then saw that Flash was not Installed on the machine and proceeded to Install the latest version.
Hope this helps someone else cos it pee’d me off a bit at first.
Good luck
October 17, 2007 at 10:33 am
I have an HP Pavilion notebook with vista home premium and i’ve tried to install Macromedia Flash 8 on it but i can not manage to bet to the install window because when i run the setup file i receive the following message:
“Failed to install ISKernel Files
Make sure you have appropriate privileges on this machine
Help :) …how can i install Flash on my computer? Is there any settings that i can change to get full administrator rights?
December 4, 2009 at 12:21 am
Same here CAN ANYONE HELP? maybe disable UAC or something in adminostrator rights
November 8, 2007 at 9:25 pm
Same thing ive probably tried to instal flash 9 something probably a hundred times, and it wont work. The dumb thing is it has worked on four other vista machines in the house. Ca
December 9, 2007 at 10:02 am
I’ve also tried to install flash about 20 times with Vista,and still no luck. I see it as a program in my control panel but not in Start menu. Everytime I go to a website that requires flash I’m told I don’t have it on my computer. Can anyone help?
January 19, 2008 at 9:43 pm
I am running Vista 64Bit I have also been having problems Installing Flash Player. Evey online Installation will fail you, just as It has me. I needed Flash Player for some of my work but I also enjoy waching online footage such as Utube and the likes of that.
I downloaded Flash and did a manual Install and It works fine now. When you get the download Instead of clicking the Exe to Install It. Right click the file and run It as Administrator. This has worked for me so It should work for anyone.
If this works plese leave a comment.
Thanks.
July 16, 2008 at 8:53 pm
I know the topic is old but since the problem is still out there…What finally worked for me:
Navigate to the following folder:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash
Run “FlashUtil9f.exe” and then reboot as it requires. (I believe the “f” on the end of the above file is just a version and may vary as I’ve seen c and f)
October 27, 2010 at 5:49 pm
i have tried this. when i get to flashutil10k and right click to run as administrator it says quit or uninstall.
what do i do from here?
uninstalling would be kind of pointless
July 21, 2008 at 1:10 pm
I’ve tried installing flah 9 on vista and it doesnt work…I tried to right click the file and run it as Administrator but still no luck.
October 22, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Flash 10 is no improvement. It will still frequently not install (including on a 2 month old Dell XPS 1330 with Vista Premium).
December 30, 2008 at 3:05 pm
I have managed to install flash completely but can’t install shockwave correctly. I have tried on the adobe site and also with the .exe installer. I have a whole bunch of .swf files but can’t play any of them.
Who knows what to do?
March 27, 2010 at 9:31 pm
This is an great site, I’ll definitely be sure to add this blog to my list.
June 6, 2010 at 2:44 pm
How do you get Adobe Flash Player to download with Windows Vista?
November 6, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Hi there, First, thanks for the great post. Sir, I need your help, I’ve created some animations in flash, and I think there is something wrong in that. Please suggest me some improvements. I hope you will not disappoint me. Thank you so much.