NiXC's I.T. Take-Away

Thought I'd try out the new Adobe Flash ActiveX control for IE, and naturally I wasn't expecting a smooth installation process - this is Adobe after all - and low and behold the plug-in would not install on Windows 7 x64.

In a normal administrative user account (hint hint), and running 'as admin' the setup process will get to 100% and then gets killed by Windows with the familiar "program unresponsive" dialog. Even setting compatibility settings on the installer or running it from an administrative command line interface will produce the same results. Plus I did the install on 2 completely different machines with different anti-virus, same thing.

The answer? Enable your proper "Administrator" account, login as that and then do the install. It works perfectly. That sort of points the finger at Adobe not know how to handle UAC again. Yes it's only a beta, but that's still quite lame.
I don't doubt running the installer as the system user would probably work too :)