Youtube doesn't work for no reason


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I am working on fixing some stuff for a friend of mine. One is that Youtube doesn't work. Javascript is enabled and Adobe Flash Player is installed and up to date. I tried three different browsers. Turned off the firewall. Added youtube to the trusted sites. uninstalled and reinstalled several times, no luck

The computer is running Windows XP. the browsers I tried were IE8, Firefox, and Chrome. Has anybody had this problem or know what the problem is. Other video sites work just fine. It seems to be isolated as a problem with youtube.com.

Alex

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Love the subject line - There clearly is a reason - just that we don't know what it is yet ;)

Have you walked through their troubleshooter for that error?

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=57669

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I know this threat was posted a long time ago but I have the EXACT same problem. Youtube isnt working, I reinstalled Adobe flashplayer and and tried adding the trusted sites and everything that you did. I uninstalled firefox and reinstalled it too. I also tried playing youtube on internet explorer but it isn't working. Video works on other sites but not youtube (which is the most important >< ).

Ontop of this I have an additional annoyance plaguing my computer. I downloaded babylon while trying to download something else. I tried deleting the add ons, and uninstalling the program and everything but it keeps coming back. I can't find it on the C: program files...etc-in other words, I read that I had to go into my program files and find the installed babylon folder but I can't find it. Furthermore-everytime I open a tab on my firefox browser, it keeps opening as babylon. It's driving me insane.

I'll be forever greatful for the awesome person who can get me out of these dillemmas as soon as possible.

Thanks in advance!

Ash

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