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How to Fix Flash Crashes in Internet Explorer 11

How to Fix Flash Crashes in Internet Explorer 11

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Let them play nicely together again

How to Repair/Reset Internet Explorer 11

If you’ve been browsing sites like YouTube while using your shiny new Windows 8 computer with IE 11, you might have encountered a very annoying problem where the browser crashes or freezes for no apparent reason. Actually, it’s mostly IE 11 related, as I’ve had multiple customers complain about the browser crashing on Windows 7 as well.

Internet Explorer and Flash normally work fine together, but with the release of IE 11 and certain issues with the latest versions of Flash, there are a lot more crashes and freezes than you would like. If you are having problems on a specific site like YouTube, there is an easy fix. If it is a more general problem, you will need to do a little more to fix it. Read on to learn how we can get Flash and IE 11 working together smoothly again.

I'll start with the YouTube/Flash/IE 11 issues, because that's the complaint I've heard most often from my customers. It seems to happen on Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 on the home page or while watching certain videos. There are basically two options to try and fix this.