All of a sudden within the last few weeks (I believe after the most recent HP automatic update) NEITHER of my HP laptops can play any type of video without a reboot. Youtube for example will load a video, play 2 seconds and then freeze. Additionally I cannot play ay other type of media (not an MP3, not spotify, not a windows media file, nothing). If I reboot, all media works for a few hours and then I have the same problem all over again.
I have taken MANY steps to try to correct this. Some of which are rolling back my flash player to version 11 and/or 12. I disabled all extensions on ALL browsers, disabled HTML5, I've tried EVERYTHING and the only 2 machines here that are doing this are HP so there must have been something in a recent update that caused this on a driver end. All of my drivers are up to date. I am one step away from doing a full recovery on the machines would be a giant pain and I'm really hoping I don't have to do this.
Can someone please help?