Windows 7 64bit and Flash video woes

[JohnnyPanic]

My wife's laptop is running Windows 7 Home Premium (64bit) and she's currently having Flash issues.

This is critical because she can't watch 4OD, iplayer, youtube etc...

Default browser is IE 8 (32bit), so I downloaded Chrome. Same problem. Uninstalled the 32bit Flash Player and installed the beta 64 bit one (for IE 64bit). Same problem.

Interestingly Flash isn't broken entirely, for example this page works http://www.burgessyachts.com but if you try to watch a Flash video like on this page http://www.burgessyachts.com/News/News_63.asp it crashes.

Any ideas why it won't play videos?

[JohnnyPanic]

Right then, I've got it working. In case anyone has the same issue and stumbles across this, but this is what I did:

1. Gave "Everyone" write access to the folders C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache\ and C:\Users\{UserName}\AppData\Roaming\Macromedia\Flash Player\#SharedObjects
2. In a subfolder of C:\Users\Simon Holmes\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Flash Player\AssetCache\ I found a text file cacheSize.txt in which I increased the number.

This might not be the most secure way of doing things, but it's working. For now

[barky]

latest 32 bit versions of adobe flash should be enough -- IE & also NON IE flash 10.1.102.64

haven't got 64bit version as it doesn't seem to be available & only have 64bit IE8 which I never use

[JohnnyPanic]

Yeah, in theory that should've been fine, but that's what wasn't working. Well, Flash was working but wouldn't stream videos. Quite an unusual issue, and one that took a few hours out of my Saturday to fix!