I had transferred Flash from my desktop to my laptop via thumb drive. Apparently this made some files corrupt.
I first had to install Windows 7 to my laptop because we couldn't find the recovery disk after my laptop spent 3 hours checking c:. Then it couldn't even identify that it had Windows Vista on it.
Yesterday, right after the following had happened, Windows 7 was installed to my laptop. I transferred the Adobe folder to my laptop just like before. It had to check the c: drive upon restarting again.
So no more Flash for now.