On Windows XP box, SL5 was working in Chrome and IE8. Then, today, chrome prompts to install SL. Upon doing so, the SL install program says that the same version of SL is already installed. Chrome:plugins does not show silverlight (but it should!). IE8 works fine as does visual studio 2010.
Since the chrome plugin does not show up as a chrome plugin, I suspect some sort of corruption in chrome setup. But, a re-install of chrome did not fix the problem.
I tried in this order:
Uninstall silverlight via control panel
then re-install
- uninstall chrome then re-install
- do a system restore to 2 days ago when everything worked
The system restore was interesting in that it caused even more problems. IE would load a SL site like it was going to work (the % loading widget showed up) but the page was blank. Chrome crashed with a Misrosoft "we're sorry dialog". An attempt to uninstall chrome did the same - so I undid the restore point and got it back to the original problem.
What should I do next?
Thanks!
