Given Adobe Flash's history of many security holes - even one of its last major updates was riddled with holes - I was surprised that MS has a combined add-on for IE and Flash in Win10. I disabled it immediately and then when I needed it to access my on-line Utilities, I simply went to IT Tools > Manage Add-ons and enabled it, remembering to disable it afterwards (or after Windows Updates that always seem to enable it).
Well that's how it was until this week's WU. Microsoft has for some reason added another step - we now have to enable/disable an ActiveX add-on as well. As a result (and because my older laptop hasn't been updated yet) I have this problem:
New PC (with the ActiveX Control) is beggared up - whatever I do I simply can't use sites that demand Flash via IE, nor Chrome.
Older PC (no ActiveX add-on) Flash works perfectly. And, by the way, Adobe says that we must disable ActiveX on this page - that same instruction is also on a Microsoft Help page, that I can't find at the moment.
And to make it worse the Level1 'Support' (sic) Engineer hasn't a clue in my Thread here.
So I'd be interested to know if others are having the same problem.