When installing a fresh copy of Flash Builder 4 in Windows 7 and trying to debug a project without an HTML wrapper I often get the error "Flash Player not found". After much searching, I have finally found the ridiculous solution. First of all, you must download a debug version of Flash Player and associate .swf files with it either through the Windows control panel or by right clicking and choosing Open With...
Simple enough, but this alone will not fix the error. Here's the ridiculous part of the process. You need to right-click the debug Flash Player that you downloaded and run it as an administrator. Doing this a single time should cause subsequent runs in Flash Builder to proceed without a hitch. So dumb.
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