I have the lastest version of flash player but I can not watch youtube clips?

Hi





On my laptop I have installed the latest version of adobe flash player but youtube still says you have an older version of flash player or your javascript is turned off.





Now I may be being a complete airhead here but I could do with some help on this one.





The weird thing is that very rarely a clip will work?





CheersI have the lastest version of flash player but I can not watch youtube clips?
If you keep getting ';HELLO, YOU EITHER HAVE JAVASCRIPT TURNED OFF OR AN


OLD VERSION OF ADOBE'S FLASH PLAYER....GET THE LATEST FLASH PLAYER';:





don't bother downloading and re-installing the latest Flash over and over and over again.


You will get absolutely nowhere doing that, because that is only adding to the problem.





There can really be only 3 possibilities:


1) something is wrong with YouTube


2) something is wrong with your cache


3) something is wrong with your Flash





1) YOUTUBE:


Your problem may fix itself within a couple hours, or by the


next day, because YouTube often ';shuts down'; a bunch of


their own servers every single day without warning anybody,


in order to update all kinds of stuff. During those occasions,


it's really YouTube's data transmissions of ';Java'; or ';Flash';


that are poor -- not your reception of it. This often causes a


';time-out'; or ';run-time'; error and can sometimes be solved


in 1 of 3 easy ways: A) hitting the ';F5'; key, B) clicking the


';Refresh'; icon or C) clicking ';Back'; and ';Forward'; on your


browser.





2) CACHE:


If the following day your YouTube is still stuck and showing


you those awful ';JavaScript'; and ';Flash Player'; messages,


it's possible that your sub-directories of ';temporary internet


files'; and ';cache'; memory are full, and can't take anymore.


This typically results in videos being totally unable to buffer


and make it onto your computer screen.





';Temporary internet files'; are 1000s of tiny bits of websites


permanently put on your computer's hard-drive. They'll stay


there forever and ever, gradually plugging up your computer


much like hair slowly clogs a sink drain, until you get rid of


them once and for all (or at least everytime things go awry).





Because your computer now has such little space in which


to ';cache'; a video, YouTube will mistakenly think that your


JavaScript is off or that your Flash player (unable to absorb


any more videos) is old -- meaning Flash 7 or older.





The solution to all that is to exit YouTube (but not your web


browser), then clear your ';cache'; of all its ';TIFs';, ';cookies';


and ';history';. (See below.) After that, shutdown and reboot.





3) FLASH:


Nothing about watching YouTube has really changed in the


past 2 years. (Technically, you could still even use Flash 8


if you wanted to.) It looks like the newest Flash players are


causing many YouTubers a whole lot of grief, especially all


8 variations of version 10.





It's absolutely nuts that there's 10.0.525, 10.1.218, 10.2.26,


10.2.54, 10.12.10, 10.12.36, 10.15.3 and 10.22.87. Usually


most updates are good for only 1 thing:...software conflicts.


I have never strayed away from 9.47, and there are a bunch


of ';flashers'; who still live by 9.45. Think of those 2 Flashes


like Windows XP compared to Vista. Please have a look at


the ';Asker's'; response to this other ';Best Answer'; of mine:


http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?鈥?/a>


If that seems interesting to you, here is the appropriate link:


http://www.oldapps.com/flash_player.php?鈥?/a>





Note 1: if you've got Google Web Accelerator or something


similar to it...dump it, burn it, trash it, disable it, uninstall it,


-- do everything you can to get rid of it. GWA conflicts with


YouTube. Clicking ';Don't Accelerate This Website'; will not


help you whatsoever. Also, most ';Messenger'; applications


have a way of mucking up YouTube.





Note 2: longer videos may require ';Flash'; and ';Shockwave';


in order to play properly. Other than that, avoid those sales


pitches that some Yahooers may be shilling, because they


are really disguised salespeople %26amp; peddlers. Their answers


have nothing to do with your question, and their wares may


actually worsen your problem. Besides, what kind of idiotic


answer is ';Despite the fact you can't even watch or access


videos, buy our downloader.'; [my paraphrase]





Note 3: a very odd fix that once worked for me was altering


the URL from ';www.youtube.com'; to simply ';youtube.com';


(or you could even try ';ca.youtube.com';).





Note 4: there's always the strange possibility that you may


have gone through the whole process of downloading Flash,


BUT DID YOU ACTUALLY INSTALL IT afterwards? If you've


got Firefox, did you ';enable'; the Flash ';add-on';?





I hope that my info and long answer are quite helpful to you.





Internet Explorer 6:


鈫?Tools 鈫?Internet Options


鈫?Delete Cookies 鈫?OK


鈫?Delete Files 鈫?OK


鈫?Clear History 鈫?Yes


鈫?OK





Internet Explorer 7:


鈫?Tools 鈫?Internet Options 鈫?Delete...


鈫?Delete files 鈫?Yes


鈫?Delete cookies 鈫?OK


鈫?Delete history 鈫?OK


鈫?Close (browsing history window)


鈫?OK





Mozilla Firefox


鈫?Tools 鈫?Clear Private Data


[x] Browsing History


[x] Download History


[x] Saved Form and Search History


[x] Cache


[x] Cookies


鈫?Clear Private Data Now





Apple Safari 3:


鈫?Edit 鈫?Preferences


鈫?Security (tab) 鈫?Show Cookies


鈫?Remove All 鈫?Done


after that:


鈫?Safari 鈫?Empty Cache 鈫?Empty


after that:


鈫?History 鈫?Clear HistoryI have the lastest version of flash player but I can not watch youtube clips?
javascript is usually turned on by default...so, it might be your flash player is outdated..





you can try a different browser...





these will help you...





1. Use Opera browser, it will load faster and smoother, and re-install latest flash (the correct way)





get the latest flash player, and install it.. make sure all the browsers are NOT running during installation... this is the right way to install the flash player.





by the way, the javascript is turned on by default.





OR..





2. It could be due to slow connection or high traffic.


Try watching it during off peak hours, the video will be smoother.





Or you could watch it offline smoothly... try using 'zillatube' .





It works very well - to get ZillaTube, click the link below, and select the first search result for download...


http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/result鈥?/a>
Go to Control Panel - Programs and Features. Click on any Flash Player you find in the list of programs and then select Uninstall.


Wait for it to finish and the reboot your PC.


Now go to adobe.com and download Adobe Flash Player.





It will work.





The problem is that, and they don't tell you this, you cannot install an Adobe Flash Player update if you have a previous version on your PC, you have to manually remove the older version first.





Next download and install Real Player, (free) It has an auto download feature, so you can dowload and save You Tube videos.
You've made the same mistake a lot of people make. You have to use the 'Adobe uninstaller' 1st to remove all the flash files - the 'program uninstaller' won't clear the files properly.





Download the uninstaller and then install Active X 'which is the flashplayer'...... if you don't do it this way .............'it won't work'.





Happy 'youtube' viewing.