Flash Player 8,0,24,0 ActiveX not working for limited user
PityTheFool
bulletin. Now it doesn't work for the limited user accounts on my Windows XP
machine. I think the installer is setting the wrong permissions on these
registry keys. The Administrator user can still use the ActiveX control. Please
help, this is a show stopper bug.
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB70-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
PityTheFool
Bentley Wolfe [Adobe]
> I can work around the problem by giving Read permissions to the Users and Power Users group, for those registry keys.
All users need permission to access c:\<winversion>\system32\macromed.
Beyond that I'm checking with engineering to see what else we might need
to advise on installing for limited users....
Bentley Wolfe
Senior Support Engineer, Flash/Flash Player
*Macromedia, now a division of Adobe Systems
jbeck...@powercreative.com
It appears the permissions are not being written correctly in the
registry?
JB
MikeyD2
under WIN XP(Home). It has screwed up the home page at Comcast.net for all the
limited user accounts on this family machine. At first I thought it was
Comcast's problem, but since the Administrator account works, clearly the
problem is with the new version. Version 8.0.22.0 worked fine. When will there
be a fix or a workaround? (I cannot even get a verification from the Macromedia
site that the player installed from a limited user account and the Comcast site
insists I should dowload Flash 7.) I would rather not fuss with the registry
until engineers are certain what is causing the problem.
jeremy_p
time I tried to get the flash player from the MM site it kept downloading the
most recent build of 6. I had this issue with a v7 user 2 days ago. My fix was
to sign on as admin and then go to windows update and apply ALL of the critical
updates. Then I rebooted, went to the MM about flash page and there is a link
on that page in the second paragraph for getting the player. I clicked it and
the updater worked. I think that the limited user account just wouldn't allow
updates and that combined with the lack of being current on windows updates
also must have been a culpret. Once I saw flash player v8.0.24 on the about
page, I signed out and the user signed back on and all was well after that.
I hope this was helpful.
jayvictor
works fine. In a Limited account, Flash doesn't work. I really don't want to
mess with the registry unless no solution is forthcoming.
MikeyD2
DSM
I looked at the permissions on these keys on my system, and sure
enough, "Everyone" has no read persmissions, "Users" have no entry at
all, and then there's a couple of groups I've never heard of:
"ANONYMOUS LOGON" and "RESTRICTED" -- RESTRICTED has read privileges.
I'm not sure what that is, but it doesn't apply to stand-alone Windows
XP machines.