Why Does IE Install Components When a Site Uses Flash Player?
Question
Why does Internet Explorer 'install components' when a Web site uses Flash Player?
Answer
Internet Explorer 3.0 can automatically install a new version of the Flash Player if the version installed on your computer is out of date. This is done by adding "#version=1,1,0,0" to the end of the CODEBASE tag where 1,1,0,0 is the minimum version of the player needed to display the page properly.
Unfortunately with Internet Explorer 3.0, if a page using Flash Player has already been viewed in the browser, the upgrade process will fail and Explorer will try again to download and install the player if the page is reloaded.
Internet Explorer will download and say it is installing the new version but will leave the old version in place.
Note:To avoid this problemclose all Internet Explorer windows, reopen Internet Explorer and go directly to the page that will upgrade the ActiveX control.
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