not very technically proficient - new Adobe download stops videos

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2. There are three things that I've found normally fix flash player problems.

1. Toggling the Hardware Acceleration settings of the player;
2. completely uninstalling Flash, rebooting, and then reinstalling Flash;
3. reverting to a previous version by uninstalling, rebooting, and installing an older version.

The first two are not too difficult technically speaking, in fact this Hulu help page outlines what to do:

   http://www.hulu.com/support/article/166614#support-article

Option three is somewhat confusing because of the way Adobe organizes their Flash archives - usually you have to download a fairly large zip file and find the actual version you need inside that to install. So I would suggest trying the first two options and if they don't seem to rectify the situation, reply for more guidance on the third if you want to try that.