Many people have been experiencing issue with installing FlashPlayer on IE7/IE8. The issue is that the download manger gets to 100% then says “Error: Failed to Register”. After closing the download manager and trying to download the installer, the second error message appears: “Failed to install”
Below is the workaround (solution) provided by Flash_fix.
This solution works for Windows XP:
1. Uninstalll (clean) the Flash files from your computer. Click here to the see the instructions How to uninstall the Adobe Flash Player plug-in and ActiveX control
2. Reboot your computer.
You must have administrator privileges to successfully complete these following instructions.
Warning: these steps modify your registry entries.
4. Download the SubInACL tool from the Microsoft Download Center:
5. Download SubInACL.msi to a folder of your choice.
6. Download the reset_fp10.zip file.
7. Extract the reset_fp10.cmd. Important: Be sure that both the subinacl.exe and reset_fp10.cmd files are in the same location (folder)
8. Double-click reset_fp10.cmd.
9. This will open a command window and execute the SubInACL tool.
10. Do not use the machine while SubInACL is running.
11. When it is finished you will see "Press any key to continue".
12. Install the Flash Player from .
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