As put by Mc Duffie, administrator at the Computer haven forums. It made sense and will work for everyone am sure.
Double click on My Computer on your desktop, then click Local Disk C, then click Windows, then System32 Folder. In the System32 folder look for the Macromed folder. Click on it, then right-click on flash9.ocx. Click on Copy, then left click and select Paste. Now right click on that copied file and rename the file to flash.ocx Do not delete the original flash9.ocx file.
That should fix the problem.
Apparently a screen saver program is using flash.ocx to run. When Adobe updated flash.ocx, they called it flash9.ocx. This created a problem for the screen saver program. Adobe should know better than that. In any case, doing a copy and rename on the copy gives the screen saver what it needs to run, as well as any new programs needing flash9.ocx.
What happens to the old file?do I just leave it there?
Michael
Edinburgh
Thanks for your help
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Michael J Gilmartin — 19 Feb 2008 at 03:49
Sorry to hear it didn't help fix the issue. Yeah, leave the old file there. No harm in that. I'm a little surprised it didn't work, the solution. Maybe you missed out on something? You're folder has both the flash.ocx as well as the flash9.ocx files right now, correct? Let me know.
Cheers
Inverse [Member] — 20 Feb 2008 at 02:42