Question: I updated to IE8 the other day on my Vista laptop, mostly because Windows Update kept bugging me about it. As a Chrome user, I don't really care so much about IE8, but I do have to use it occaisionally to test website compatibility.

At any rate, flash seems to be completely deactivated, and I don't see a place to re-enable it anywhere in the preferences. I've done a bit of googling on the issue, but only found information about how to disable flash, not how to actually enable it.

I have the flash 10 debug player installed, and it works fine with Chrome and Firefox. What could be the matter?

Answer: 
You do know that the answers there are always and forever visible in plain text if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the page?
It is possible with Google Chrome if you append it as a custom search engine and make it the default. 

Something like [this](https://superuser.com/questions/1205/search-box-in-chrome/1320#1320).