Video problems

[Rolex]

This comp is a new HP Media Center, and I have no problem watching, recording or playing anything that's on cable. However, anything on the internet will not open in IE or in Media Center.
No problem in FireFox but in IE I keep getting the same message, and no matter how many times I've downloaded Adobe Active X, I get the same thing. Here's the message I always get:

Hello, you either have JavaScript turned off or an old version of Adobe's Flash Player. Get the latest Flash player.

 

[Karl M]

I'm going to take a wild guess, Vista right? A friend had an issue of the sort and linked it back to vista security features. I'll have to get a hold of him for details, but I'm not sure he ever got it fixed.

 

[Rolex]

You nailed it. I forgot to mention it's Vista. I've tried everything, and I can't get it to work.

 

[vbgagnon]

I'm running vista and don't seem to have that issue. Youtube and sites like that work fine for me.

 

[Rolex]

It USED to work, then something stopped it.

 

[vbgagnon]

Well then I'm knocking on wood now. Have you changed anything?

 

[Karl M]

I bet your security settings changed, I don't know how but vista does strange things like that.

 

[Rolex]

I'm almost sure it would be somewhere in the security settings, but I can't find the problem. Nothing is disabled, all the add ons and plug ins in IE are enabled. Macromedia, flash, etc. I just can't find it.
Under normal OSs, (98, XP) once it tells you to download flash or whatever, that would do it. This won't won't let me correct it.
The biggest annoyance is the Windows mail. Someone sends me a link, and I have to copy it, then open FireFox and paste it to view it.

 

[HeartBreak]

Sounds like your IE got corrupted. On the last mainboard my PC used (when I started using firefox, btw) IE6 would get corrupted and require a repair. Unless microsoft changed it, log in as administrator and run at the command prompt "SFC /SCANNOW". Reboot, and let it scan the system. Supply any discs needed.

The next thing, is don't run in administrator unless you absolutely need to be in the admin desktop. It's just plain dangerous.

 

[TalonOne]

Can you take it back to a restore point??? I am already on record as hating Vista and giving it any of my time .....so I dont know where to point you.



Oh, and did I tell you latly that I hate Microsoft....long live the Penguin!!

 

[hvymetalalchmst]

firefox kicks butt.

check your iexplorer security options, firewall, windows and most importantly java. those will deal with java directly. check your router/modem just in case as well. you never know if it is blocking some important packets/ports

it could be that or, simply heartbreak says, corrupted.
vista is crap, upgrade back to XP, thats right, upgrade. your better off waiting a while cos vista is completely new for ms, and may take a while before they get anything right again.
its akward to use, has stupid features and has more bugs than the amazon forest

 

[hamz9561]

It could also be an update to IE that is causing the problem. You might check on the Microshaft, uhm I mean Microsoft website.

 

[hvymetalalchmst]

or, like a few people think, it could be the conspiracy of microsoft. world domination, y2k, calling of the apocolypse, mind controlling, the usual.

A wavy window with each quarter pane a different color? Ha! seems a little fishy and suss to me. i would be careful of what goes on behind such a weird window. if you ask me, theres definitely something weird going on and Uncy Bill is in for it all. id say its definitely the microsoft conspiracy. no doubt whatsoever in my mind.

 

[Rolex]

I noticed while going through today's Emails that anything WMA related will open media player and run fine.
Any links to You Tube will not. They're the ones I have to copy and paste in Firefox.
I got XP OEM in a new computer, one month before it was available to the public. 30 days without support from MS or HP. XP was also a nightmare when it was new. Now that it's stable and secure they release Vista. Here we go again. About the time Vista is running fine, they'll have another one for us.
I KNEW I should have gone Mac this time.

 

[hamz9561]

I KNEW I should have gone Mac this time.

Nahhh, You know how to use a second button on your mouse.