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you tube not playing

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thaipo
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I go to play an youtube video and it plays for 2 seconds and quits, maybe 5 minutes later it will play another 3 seconds. Any youtube video I tray.

I go to play an youtube video and it plays for 2 seconds and quits, maybe 5 minutes later it will play another 3 seconds. Any youtube video I tray.

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cor-el
cor-el
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Boot the computer in Windows Safe mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test to see if that helps.

kobe
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Recent crashes of certain multimedia contents (this includes Youtube videos, certain flash games and other applications) in conjunction with Firefox are most probably caused by a recent Flash update and/or a malfunctioning browser plugin such as Real Player.

In order to remedy the problem, please perform the steps mentioned in these Knowledge Base articles:

Other, more technical information about these issues can be found under these Links:


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