It doesn't work on my system, even launching the .exe as administrator.

If you find things aren't still working have a look at:

http://www.theopenworldtechnician.com/blogberry/2007/02/16/flash-player-and-windows-vista-fix/

You are the man! This did the trick.

If you wondering what that did, it is something that you can even do yourself..

How To Make all Flash content play automatically in IE7 or Windows Vista June 2007


You have probably noticed most flash will not play at all, and what does play has to have the
flash's active X installed each time in Internet Explorer 7 and/or Windows Vista, and even then
you will find that it still will not work.

This is simply a "Permissions" and "Default Player" problem that has a easy and permanent fix.
If you are just browsing the web or plan to create a flash web site, you will need to make these
few changes listed below in order to do either of these things. Please keep in mind, millions
of Internet users will never make these changes, this means making a web site with flash content
will only reach less than 40% of the people you target.

My personal opinion is, every IE7 user should make these changes. Not doing so will limit
your web browsing and create many other veiwing problems everyday. Flash is not going away
anytime soon, Microsoft and Adobe do not see eye to eye, so now it is your job to make the two
connect. At one time it was all done for you, now it is all up to the end user.

Follow These Steps ..

1. With IE7 open, click (TOOLS) at the top right corner of the browser.
In the drop down menu click (INTERNET OPTIONS)
2. Now click the (PROGRAMS) tab at the top. Click the (SET PROGRAMS)
button at the bottom.

3.Click (ASSOCIATE A FILE TYPE OR PROTOCOL). Scroll down until you see
( .flv ) files extension on the left side in the list. If Internet explorer is
not set as the default program on the right, then you have found half the problem.

4.Select the ( .flv ) extension and then click (CHANGE PROGRAM) at the top right.
Browse until you have found the IE7 icon "application" and double click it.

You have solved the first of two problems. Now you will need to set "Permissions".

1. With IE7 open, click (TOOLS) at the top right corner of the browser.
In the drop down menu click (INTERNET OPTIONS)

2. Click the (ADVANCED) tab at the top. Scroll down until you see
(ALLOW ACTIVE CONTENT TO PLAY IN FILES ON MY COMPUTER).

3. Put a check mark next to that item and click (APPLY) at the bottom.

4. Set IE7 as the Default browser if you have not already. You can do this by
clicking (TOOLS) at the top right corner of the browser.
In the drop down menu click (INTERNET OPTIONS)
Now click the (PROGRAMS) tab at the top and click (MAKE DEFAULT) at top.

Wlecome to the new FORCED WORLD OF FLASH CONTENT !

Had the problem and this fixed it! Great!

i had this problem too and now its fine woo-hoo!!!!

Hi, all

I followed all the steps above, but still have the problem. It was good several days ago until I setup some new programs. My version is flashutil9d.exe. Anyone can help?
Thanks a lot!
Garry

Thanks, this post helped me out :) thumbs Up

Unfortunately, this doesn`t help. The problem is, videos on youtube work fine, except that there is no sound at all. I`ve installed the latest driver for sound, the new Flash from Adobe site, enabled Javascript and so on... Yet it still doesn`t work. Can anyone help me???

Thx !!!

Hi, I have Vista OS and EI 7. My Flash Player is version flashutil9e.ocx. The video would not load in Youtube but its fine in other site. I tried everything but nothing happen. It only work when I dropped the firewall which I don't like to do. I tried the suggestion above but cannot locate .flv in ASSOCIATE A FILE TYPE OR PROTOCOL. Any other suggestion is most welcome.

Awesome...
Been having this problem for a few months. Thanks for the fix. Boo hiss on MS and Adobe for not patching automatically.

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I was going crazy trying to figure out why I couldn't view any Flash files and why trying to download the latest version of Adobe Flash Player didn't work!! I tried your suggestion today and voila!! All fixed. You saved my sanity!

Glad I could help Chris.