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Comments like the following abound on forums - they discuss the symptoms of this issue, and many of them offer the workaround of disabling the "broken" screensaver to get rid of the annoying message, while others even propose uninstalling Flash (which is totally unhelpful), but few actually get to the bottom of the issue:
"I've had an error box pop up frequently stating "Could not find the Macromedia Flash". I'm using WinXP. From other forums, I found the suggestion to change your screensaver, and this worked from me. I had a 'special' one downloaded from the National Science Foundation, and switching to a standard Windows screensaver fixed the problem. I haven't tested this for long, but I'm reasonably convinced it's a solution, as you can get the error message by clicking 'Preview' with the old screensaver, but not with the new. I doubt this is just a problem with the NSF screensaver, as that's a rather obscure one, and many people have complained about this problem."
So what is actually going on here, and how does one fix it, so that those screensavers can still be used? And what happened in order to break this in the first place?
What the screensavers are looking for and not finding is the Flash ActiveX control, specifically they are looking for flash.ocx. This file should be in C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash and is registered in the Windows registry as the InProcServer32 application for the CLSID {1171A62F-05D2-11D1-83FC-00A0C9089C5A}, aka FlashProp.FlashProp.1, the current version of the FlashProp Class type.
The problem arises when this file is missing, which can happen after running the Flash updater. It only leaves the most current version-specific copy of this file in that directory, e.g. flash10e.ocx or formerly flash9d.ocx. This ActiveX control IS the right control you want, so the easy workaround is to copy this file within the same directory, and name the copy "flash.ocx". Bingo, errors gone, screensaver fixed.
The version-specific file, e.g. flash10e.ocx, will be registered as the InProcServer32 for the Shockwave Flash Object and Macromedia Flash Factory Object class types, {D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000} and {D27CDC70-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}, so the Flash player itself still works, and plays Flash files fine. It's apparently only when its *properties* are being accessed by another application that doesn't know that flash.ocx has been renamed to flash10e.ocx or some such that things go boink. Some apps are also written to specifically look for flash.ocx and don't look in the registry at all.
So who's to blame for this? It appears that it's Adobe's fault -- they should leave/place a copy of the version-specific flash##.ocx file named "flash.ocx" in place instead of deleting it when you upgrade. The standard mechanism on Unix for this sort of thing is to make a symbolic link with a version-unspecific name that points to the version-specific file. But Windows doesn't have symlinks, so you need to resort to copies. Either way, the old flash.ocx has been relied on by many application developers, and Adobe broke their apps.
Compare http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/402/kb402694.html for Adobe's take on this.
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