Weird Internet Explorer problem

[ffutures]

My sister's family computer (XP Home SP3) has IE7 as its browser. Suddenly Flash won't work, no matter what we do. I've tried uninstalling Flash and reinstalling it, tried messing around with the settings, nothing seems to help. Flash is there all right - I tried it with Opera and its's fine - but for some reason IE7 doesn't want to know.

Any suggestions? Preferably not involving Linux, Firefox, Macs, etc....?

Comments

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

I'd check the security settings in IE7. Try gearing them all the way down to Low and see if that helps.

I'd be extremely wary of uninstalling IE7. Doing that may screw you into a position where you need IE7 on a CD to reinstall it.

You should also try creating a new user account on the machine, logging in with that, and seeing if it works. If it does, then the problem is with the user's settings, which you can fiddle with from the control panels.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

It's all users so the last isn't it - I'll try the others.

[heliograph.livejournal.com]

Also, if you go into Control Panels and use the "Add/Remove System Components" option (or something like that). You can then do a repair install on IE and see if that fixes it: it won't do any harm.

If you need more detail let me know and I can give you a step-by-step.