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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: → something's wrong with YouTube → something's wrong with your cache → something's wrong with Flash 10
YOUTUBE: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ Your problem could fix itself in a few hours, or the next day, because YouTube actually shuts down a lot of their servers every day without telling anyone, (in order to update things). On those occasions, it's really YouTube's transmissions of "JavaScript" and "Flash" which are poor, not your reception of it. This creates "time-out" or "run-time" errors, giving that message. You can sometimes fix this by either: hitting "F5", clicking "Refresh", or clicking "Back"/"Forward".PLEASE VOTE.
CACHE: ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ If by the next day YouTube is still showing you that JS&FP message, maybe your "temporary internet files" and cache memory are full and cannot take anymore. As such, videos can't even begin to buffer.
"Temporary internet files" are 1000s of little bits and pieces of websites put on your hard-drive. They'll stay there forever, slowly plugging up your computer, (like hair in a sink drain) until you get rid of them. Otherwise, one day your YouTube will suddenly be "stuck".
Because your computer now has such little space in which to "cache" a video, YouTube will mistakenly think that your JavaScript's "runtime environment" or "buffer overflow" is off, or that your player is "FLASH 7".
The solution to all that is to first exit YouTube, but not your browser. After, clear your "cache" of all its "TIFs", "cookies" and "history". (See below.) After that, shutdown and reboot.
FLASH: ¯¯¯¯¯¯ Watching YouTube vids hasn't changed in the past 2 years. (Believe it or not, you can still use "Flash 8" if you'd like to). The newer Flash players are giving many YouTubers plenty of grief -- particularly since there are 11 different "Flash 10s". It's nuts that there is 10.0.525, 10.0.576, 10.1.218, 10.2.26, 10.2.54, 10.12.10, 10.12.36, 10.15.3, 10.22.87, 10.23.1, as well as 10.32.18 now.
Most updates are good for only 1 thing:...Software conflicts. I've never strayed away from 9.47, and many "flashers" use 9.45 still. Think of them as Windows XP compared to Vista. Look at what the Asker said after this Best Answer of mine: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?… If that seems interesting to you, here is the appropriate link: http://www.oldapps.com/flash_player.php?…
Note 1: if you've got an "Accelerator", dump it, burn it, rip it, kick it, trash it, disable it, uninstall it...get as far away from it as possible. There are "Torrents", "Messengers" and "Ad Blocks" that also conflict with YouTube.
Note 2: some longer videos may need "Shockwave" to play properly.
Note 3: if you downloaded Flash, did you actually complete the process and INSTALL it? If you have Firefox or IE 8, did you enable their add-ons?
Internet Explorer 6: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete Cookies → OK → Delete Files → OK → Clear History → Yes → OK
Internet Explorer 7: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete... → Delete files → Yes → Delete cookies → OK → Delete history → OK → Close (browsing history window) → OK
Internet Explorer 8: → Tools → Delete Browsing History [. ] Preserve Favorites (leave blank) [x] Temporary Internet files [x] Cookies [x] History → Delete
Mozilla Firefox 3: → Tools → Clear Private Data [x] Browsing History [x] Download History [x] Saved Form and Search History [x] Cache [x] Cookies → Clear Private Data Now
Mozilla Firefox 3.5: → Tools → Clear Recent History Time range to clear: → Everything ▼ Details [x] Browsing & Download History [x] Saved Form and Search History [x] Cookies [x] Cache → Clear Now
Apple Safari 3: → Edit → Preferences → Security (tab) → Show Cookies → Remove All → Done after that: → Safari → Empty Cache → Empty after that: → History → Clear History
Google Chrome: → Tools (wrench) → Clear browsing data... [x] Clear browsing history [x] Clear download history [x] Empty the cache [x] Delete cookies Clear data from this period: → Everything → Clear Browsing Data
For some very odd reason, it seems that 9 out of 10 error messages like this deal with Firefox.
If "Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand", plus "Size of a request header field exceeds server limit", that strange request may be a bad or unusually big cookie. (The same thing is true for "Error 400" codes.)
Simply clear all of your cookies and everything should be fine. Don't worry about getting rid of them; absolutely nothing bad will happen. You won’t lose your internet browser's "Bookmarks" or "Favorites". The worst-case scenario is that you will have to type your username/password again when you first revisit YouTube and a few other websites -- that's all.
While you're erasing your cookies, you should also be deleting your "temporary internet files" and "history" to get them out of your computer memory, and make everything fresh. After that, it is probably better if you shutdown and reboot.
Internet Explorer 6: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete Cookies → OK → Delete Files → OK → Clear History → Yes → OK
Internet Explorer 7: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete... → Delete files → Yes → Delete cookies → OK → Delete history → OK → Close (browsing history window) → OK
Mozilla Firefox → Tools → Clear Private Data [x] Browsing History [x] Download History [x] Saved Form and Search History [x] Cache [x] Cookies → Clear Private Data Now
Reset the Internet explorer settings.
Internet Explorer 7: → Tools → Internet Options → Delete... → Delete files → Yes → Delete cookies → OK → Delete history → OK → Close (browsing history window) → OK
When you have your desktop up & displayed, click the right mouse button & it will bring up a menu. Hover your mouse above the "Arrange Icons By" option and it will bring up a sub menu. If the "Show Desktop Icons" option does not have a check mark to the left of it, that is your problem. If there is no check mark, navigate down to it and click on it with your left mouse button and that will make your icons display.
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