Annoying Flash Issue in Windows XP with Limited Users

As a technology coordinator in a high school setting, I’m recently having an issue with Flash content not displaying correctly in Internet Explorer on limited user accounts.  It’s frustrating because I reimaged the entire computer lab with the same ghost image and now Flash content doesn’t view correctly on all computer in the lab.  I didn’t realize it when I created the ghost image because I was using an administrator account and everything viewed correctly.

I found several posts addressing the issue, but it is a pain to have to perform the same fix on all 35 computers.  The steps include:

1. Running the Flash Uninstaller

2. Deleting a registry key:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\MIME\Database\Content Type\application/x-shockwave-flash

3. Reinstalling Flash Player.

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