In recent years, various services for watching videos are becoming more popular. What is the same YouTube, on which some videos gain several million views!
Most of these sites are based on Flash technology, which was created by the notorious Adobe company. In general, she has enough advantages. The good thing is that with the help of Flash today, every user who has a more or less modern browser and Internet access can watch movies without even downloading them to his computer.
Unfortunately, there were some troubles here too. So why Adobe Flash Player is not installed on some computers? Indeed, without this program you will not be able to access the wonderful world of entertainment, music and games! Let's look at the main reasons why this can happen.
Close the browser!
Alas, not all users can read the program message, even if it will be written in their native language. But this utility specifically warns that in order to complete its installation it is imperative to close all browsers that are currently open.
Attention! Just clicking on the cross and closing the active program window is not enough. This is due to the fact that modern browsers create a lot of processes, some of which sometimes remain in memory even after the "official" closing of the program.
What to do? Surely, all users of the Windows operating system family are familiar with the “miraculous” buttons. Of course, we are talking about the combination Ctrl + Alt + Delete, which calls up the dialog box of the process manager.
In the list that opens, you need to find the "tenacious" process, right-click on it, and then select "Close". All! You can restart the installation process. But why doesn't Adobe Flash Player install even after that?
Check version
In this case, you must return to the official site from which you downloaded the installation file. Check if you downloaded the version to your computer? If not, you should not be surprised at the incorrect behavior of the installer.
Important! To a large extent, this applies only to those users who downloaded the installation file not on the official website, but on some “left” resource. In this case, no one can guarantee version compatibility, and you are definitely not safe from the presence of a virus or trojan in such a file.
What is your browser version?
By the way, how much new browser do you use? If your system still has something similar to Firefox 3.6, then this misunderstanding needs to be fixed urgently! Remember that older versions of the Internet browser can not only make it impossible to install and configure Flash, but they are also extremely vulnerable to malware attacks.
Google chrome
Important! This browser already contains built-in tools for playing Flash files, so you don’t need to install anything else! By the way, if some site insistently offers to install the new Adobe Flash Player “specially for Chrome”, get out of there as quickly as possible: when you try to install this kind of computer, the guarantee of computer virus infection is almost 100%!
User Account Control (UAC)
Occasionally (!) The reason for this behavior of the installer may be the control of user accounts . More precisely, not the control itself, but the reaction of inexperienced users to it. When UAC is turned on, when you try to start some program, a dialog box appears in which the user is asked to agree or refuse to start the application. For some reason, many click "No", as a result of which the installation is interrupted.
This is why Adobe Flash Player is not installed. Unfortunately, the list of various reasons for this is not limited to.
Delete the old version
In principle, it would be worth starting our article from this point if it had been written a couple of years ago. In those days, programs rarely knew how to install on top of older versions, and when trying to such an installation, dozens of errors often appeared.
Today, the problem is practically resolved, but it will not hurt to play safe. To do this, delete the previous version in manual mode. This is completely uncomplicated, so even inexperienced users can easily handle the process.
First you need to click on the "Start" button, run the "Control Panel" from there. In the menu of the last there are “Programs and components”. Click on the link with the left mouse button, after which you will see a list of all the components installed on this computer.
You are looking for a “Flash player" in it, then select it again with the left mouse button. Look at the top of the working window, where there is a “Delete” button. Click on it, after which the uninstall process begins. After this, the computer must be restarted, and then again try to install Adobe Flash Player on the computer.
Alas, the problem may well remain even after that.
System updates
It is unlikely, but the utility may not be installed due to the absence of any important updates in your operating system. For example, on older versions of XP (even before SP2), troubles often occurred due to the outdated Windows Installer.
In this case, only updating the system to the current level can help. This is done using the Windows Update service. All necessary updates will be downloaded from the Microsoft website. Restart your computer, and then restart the installation process.
User Errors
Very often, the users themselves are to blame for the problem. Remember: you click on the installation file icon and ... nothing happens. While the antivirus checks the program for malicious applications, while the system displays a UAC warning window, a lot of time may pass.
But users have no patience! They can click on the unfortunate file ten times, starting a couple of dozen installation processes. It is not surprising that in this case Adobe Flash Player is not installed, and the computer hangs tightly!
This is especially true of obsolete computers that have a limited amount of RAM and not too powerful processors. There is only one way out: be patient, do not click on the installation file a hundred times in a row!
Viruses!
The advice is very banal, but it has not lost its relevance. If the program stubbornly refuses to install on your computer, the installation crashes with dozens of various errors, it makes sense to check your system for viruses. You can do this using any utility from Kaspersky Lab or Doctor Web.
Mobile devices
Since in recent years the prevalence of smartphones and tablets has increased dramatically, the number of people wishing to install Adobe Flash Player for Android has also increased. You may also face difficulties along the way, but they are not so great.
Firstly, it’s worth remembering one simple thing: never install programs for the Android OS from anywhere except the Google Store (especially the Adobe Flash Player in Russian)! If the installation process cannot be completed, then there may be only two problems.
Either your device is for some reason incompatible with the current version (very important for cheap Chinese gadgets), or you just need to check the amount of available memory on your device. The fact is that Android is in some respects a strange system. A removable card can have several gigabytes free, but the absence of a couple MB of free space on the internal drive often leads to this kind of problem. Have to clean the memory!
This is why Adobe Flash Player is not installing!