How to detect adobe flash player addon's enable/disable status in IE8

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Hi everybody,

I am facing problem to detect the flash status(enable/disable) for IE.Though the below code is working fine for mozilla and chrome.I am fed up with IE. :(
Can anyone please answer by below question and check the code?
1.Is it possible to detect flash status for IE?
2.If yes,what is the drawback in the attached code?
3.Is there any other way to achieve this goal?

Thanks in Advance!!

<pre lang="Javascript">function CheckFlashPlayer()

{

 var hasFlash = false;

 if (navigator.plugins && navigator.plugins.length) //This part is used in Mozilla and Chrome

            {

                          var plugin = navigator.plugins['Shockwave Flash'];

                          if (plugin)

                           {

                            hasFlash = true;

                           }

                         

                          if (navigator.plugins['Shockwave Flash 2.0'])

                           {

                            hasFlash = true;

                            flashVersion = '2.0.0.11';

                           }

} 

   else if (navigator.mimeTypes && navigator.mimeTypes.length)

    {

                        var mimeType = navigator.mimeTypes['application/x-shockwave-flash'];

                        hasFlash = mimeType && mimeType.enabledPlugin;

    }

    else 

    {

                        try 

                        {

                                    // This Part is for IE 

                          var ax = new ActiveXObject('ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.7');

                          hasFlash = true;                      

                        }    

       catch (e)

        {

                                    // Try 6 next, some versions are known to crash with GetVariable calls

                                     try 

                                     {

                                      var ax = new ActiveXObject('ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.6');

                                      hasFlash = true;

                                      

                                     } 

                                    catch (e)

                                     {

                                                            try 

                                                            {

                                                            // For checking default activeX, if all above check fails

                                                            var ax = new ActiveXObject('ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash');

                                                              hasFlash = true;

                                                         } 

                                                            catch (e)

                                                             {

                                                             hasFlash = false;

                                                            }

                                     }}}

         if(hasFlash)//This part is to set visibility of demo div

                        {document.getElementById("divWinFlash").style.display="block"; }

}