Why can not I install Adobe Flash Player? Install the new Adobe Flash Player

In recent years, various services are becoming more popular for viewing video. What is the same YouTube, where some videos are gaining several million views!

Most of these sites are based on Flash technology, which was created by the notorious company Adobe. In general, the advantages it has enough. The good thing is that with the help of Flash today every user who has a more or less modern browser and access to the Internet can watch movies without even downloading them to his computer.

Unfortunately, there are some troubles here as well. So, why does not Adobe Flash Player install on some computers? After all, without this program you will be unavailable a 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 is written in their own language. But this utility specifically warns that to complete its installation, you should always close all open browsers.

Attention! Just clicking on the cross and closing the active window of the program 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" closure of the program.

What to do? For sure, all users of the Windows family are familiar with the "miraculous" buttons. Of course, this is a combination of Ctrl + Alt + Delete, which brings up the Process Manager dialog box.

In the list that opens, you need to find a "durable" process, right-click on it, and then select "Close". All! You can start the installation process again. But why is not Adobe Flash Player installed even after that?

Checking the version

In this case, you must return to the official site from which you downloaded the installation file. Check if the version you downloaded to your computer? If not, do 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 site, but on some "left" resource. In this case, no one can guarantee the compatibility of the versions, and the presence of a virus or Trojan program in such a file is not exactly insured.

What is your version of the browser?

By the way, how much do you use the new browser? If your system still has something similar to Firefox 3.6, then this misunderstanding needs to be fixed urgently! Remember that older versions of Internet Explorer not only can make it impossible to install and configure Flash, but are also extremely vulnerable to malicious software attacks.

Google Chrome

Important! This browser already contains built-in tools for playing Flash files, so you do not need to install anything else! By the way, if some site persistently proposes to install a new Adobe Flash Player "specifically for Chrome", leave as quickly as possible: when trying such an installation, the guarantee of virus infection of the computer is almost 100%!

User Account Control (UAC)

Occasionally (!) The reason for this behavior of the installer can be the control of user accounts . More precisely, not the control itself, but the reaction of inexperienced users to it. When UAC is on, a dialog box appears when you try to start a program, in which the user is prompted to accept or refuse to start the application. For some reason, many press "No", as a result of which the installation is interrupted.

This is why Adobe Flash Player is not installed. Unfortunately, the list of all possible reasons is not exhausted.

Delete the old version

In principle, it would be worth starting our article if it were written a couple of years ago. In those days, programs rarely were able to be installed on top of older versions, and when trying such an installation, dozens of errors often appeared.

Today the problem is almost solved, but it will not hurt to make sure. To do this, remove the previous version in manual mode. It is not difficult to do this, so even inexperienced users with the process can easily cope.

First you need to click on the "Start" button, start from there "Control Panel". In the last menu there are "Programs and components". Click the link with the left mouse button, and then you will see a list of all the components installed on this computer.

Looking for "Flash Player" in it, then again select it with the left mouse button. Look at the top of the working window, where there is a "Delete" button. Click on it, then the uninstallation process begins. After that, the computer must be rebooted, and then again try to install Adobe Flash Player on the computer.

Alas, the problem may well remain even after this.

System Updates

It is unlikely, but the utility may not be installed due to the lack of some important updates in the structure of your operating system. For example, on older versions of XP (even before SP2), there were often troubles due to the obsolete Windows Installer.

In this case, only the upgrade of 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 the computer, then restart the installation process.

User Errors

Very often the problem is the users themselves. Remember: you click on the installation file icon and ... nothing happens. While the antivirus will check the program for the presence of malicious applications, while the system will issue a warning window for UAC, it may take a long time.

But users have no patience! They can ten times click on the unfortunate file, running a couple of dozen installation processes. Not surprisingly, in this case, Adobe Flash Player is not installed, but the computer hangs!

This is especially true for obsolete computers that have a limited amount of RAM and not very powerful processors. There is only one way out: be patient, do not click on the setup file a hundred times in a row!

The viruses!

The council is very trivial, but it has not lost its relevance. If the program stubbornly refuses to be installed on your computer, the installation crashes with a dozen of all possible errors, it makes sense to check your system for viruses. You can do this by using any utility from Kaspersky Lab or from Doctor Web.

Mobile devices

Since in recent years the prevalence of smartphones and tablets has grown dramatically, the number of those wishing to install Adobe Flash Player for Android has also increased. In this way, you can also be in trouble, but they are not so great.

First, it's worth remembering one simple thing: never install programs for the Android OS from anywhere, except Google Store (especially Adobe Flash Player in Russian)! If the installation process can not be completed, then there can be only two problems.

Or your device for some reason is 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" - in some respects a strange system. There can be several gigabytes free on a removable card, but the absence of a pair of MB of free space on the internal drive often leads to such problems. Have to clean the memory!

That's why Adobe Flash Player is not installed!