Installation Problems Flash Player Windows

Posted : admin | On 25-03-2021

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Since Adobe will no longer be supporting Flash Player after December 31, 2020 and Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player beginning January 12, 2021, Adobe strongly recommends all users immediately uninstall Flash Player to help protect their systems. This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player that is installed on any of the Windows operating systems that are listed in the 'Applies to' section. To learn more about these vulnerabilities, see ADV200012.

Flash Player Will Not Install or
Windows Update for Flash Player Wont Install

Why Wont Flash Player Install?

Adobe Flash is a plugin for Internet Explorer and Firefox that allows active content to be displayed in your web browser. As with other third party programs, its updated on a regular basis. In many cases, the Flash Security Update KB923789 in Windows Update would not install properly. In other cases, you may have received an error 'you must install a later version of the Macromedia Flash Player'.
In April 2008, Adobe is releasing another security update that may cause issues too. Because of these problems, you may have to uninstall and reinstall the flash player to may it work properly. Follow the steps below to download the Flash Player Uninstaller and then reinstall it. In most cases, a reinstall will fix any issues with Flash Player.

Last week, a hacked flash ad injected into online advertising enabled malware to attack systems just by visitors viewing the infected web page. These 'malvertisements' may become commonplace in the future and are even more reason to uninstall any old versions of Adobe Flash Player and install the latest version. Read more about Flash Security further down the page.
Download the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller
Many times, just uninstalling and reinstalling the Adobe Flash Player from the Add/Remove Programs Control Panel will not solve the problem. If the Flash Player is corrupted, it may not remove properly and therefore an new installations will not proceed correctly. Click on the following link to download the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller and save it to your desktop.
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/alternates/
Run the uninstaller program and then reboot your computer to complete the uninstall.
Download the latest version of Flash Player
Now that Adobe Flash has been uninstalled, go to the Adobe site and download the latest flash player.
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
Security Level Issues Won't Allow Flash Player to Download
Sometimes, browser security will not allow you to download the Flash Player correctly. If this happens in Internet Explorer, check the following items to allow the download.
To change your security level:

Open Internet Explorer.
Click on Tools, Internet Options
Click on the Security Tab
Click Custom Level
Find the section titled 'ActiveX controls and plug-ins'
Choose Prompt for 'Download Signed ActiveX Controls'
Choose Prompt for 'Run ActiveX Controls and Plug-ins'
Click OK twice to close the options screen

Checking for the Flash Killbit in the Registry
Microsoft has an option in the Windows registry that can be set to disallow an Active X control from running. This killbit will sometimes be set by a malware application to cause further problems for the user. This happened just a few days ago on a clients computer. I completed every other procedure for fixing the Flash player and it was installed. However, when the customer went to a flash enabled site they were greeted with a message that Flash needed to be installed even though it already was installed.
Follow these steps to check for this killbit for the Flash player and fix it.
1) Click Start, Run and type REGEDIT (for Windows XP) or Click the Start Orb and type REGEDIT in the search box and open it (For Windows Vista/7)
2) Navigate to the following registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
SOFTWARE
Microsoft
Internet Explorer
ActiveX Compatibility
{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11CF-96B8-444553540000}

3) If that particular key does not exist, then the killbit for Flash is not set, however if it contains a DWORD entry for Compatibility Flags and the value is set for anything different than 0x00000000, then the killbit has been set and this is the reason why Flash is not appearing.
4) You can delete the registry entry if the killbit is set, or change the value to 0x00000000
5) Close the Registry Editor and test flash player again.

More Troubleshooting Help for Flash Player
If this procedure does not allow you to install Adobe Flash, you may want to visit the Troubleshooting FAQ on Adobe's site.
Flash Security
Because of the recent vulnerabilities found in Flash applications that allow malware code to be released when a flash file is viewed, you may want to turn flash off when viewing flash enabled websites. This is a more extreme measure, but should be considered.
Here are some utilities that will help turn flash off when needed.
For Internet Explorer:

TurnFlash - a utility to turn flash on or off from the system tray
No! Flash - free utility to disable flash, java, and more

For Firefox:

FlashBlock - an add-on extension to block flash, shockwave, and authorware in Firefox

To read more about this flash vulnerability visit the Windows Secrets article

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It gradually becomes a common sense that every browser needs to download adobe flash player on Windows 10. You may often have a question: Do I have a flash? Surprisingly, it is not flash player not working concerns you, how to enable adobe flash player for Google Chrome, Microsoft edge, Firefox and even Internet Explorer is what haunts in your mind.

Recently, the flash player is integrated into Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Opera, etc. You can see this notification while you start the Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge or some other browsers on Windows 10. So you do not need to install flash player. But here an adobe flash player test is available, just hit Test Flash Payer.

But In previous times, you can often run into an error that you cannot perform this action due to the low version of the browser, to do that, please update the flash player Windows 10. As for why you encounter flash player issues, the reason lies in that there is the flash player is responsible for the browser to run, for instance, view multimedia contents and execute applications.

In this way, it is necessary for you to find the flash player version and enable it for Windows 10. Of course, disable the Adobe flash player if you want in some situations.

Furthermore, in some cases, you may also want to get the latest version of adobe flash player for Google Chrome, or Microsoft edge.

How to Enable Windows Flash Player in Web Browser?

Now you would better manage to learn how to download and then enable flash player on Windows 10 manually if the adobe flash player has not come with Google Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Edge, etc. on that occasion, you can either troubleshoot flash player or update it on Windows 10.

Tips: Since in Firefox and Internet Explorer, you can notice that the flash player is called Shockwave flash, it is no wonder you observe the shockwave flash object flash.ocx in this browser.

Part 1: Enable Flash Player for Google Chrome on Windows 10

In this section, in the first place, you are to get down to know about how to activate the adobe flash player on Google Chrome.

1. Open Google Chrome application on your PC.

2. In Google Chrome, click Toolbar and then select Settings from the list.

3. In Google Chrome Settings, scroll down the webpage to locate Advanced.

4. In the Advanced settings, find out Content settings.

It is to control what information websites can use and what content they can show you.

5. Open Content settings and then choose Flash.

6. In Flash settings, under Allow tab, copy and paste the site. And if you have many sites to run flash player, just click Add to add them on the list.

Here you can set to ask for your permission before using flash in Google Chrome on Windows 10.

Under this circumstance, you are qualified to enable and use adobe flash player on Google Chrome as you wish.

Related: How to Update Chrome://Components on Windows 10

Part 2: Enable Windows Adobe Flash Player on Microsoft Edge

It is well known that the embedded-in web browser on Windows 10 is Microsoft Edge. So it may be the hope of many users to update adobe flash player for Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.

Or to fix flash player problems, you can also try the following steps.

1. In Microsoft Edge browser, click the toolbar which shows itself as three dots and then choose Settings.

2. Then in the Settings window, pick out View advanced settings in Advanced settings.

3. Then attempt to switch on Use Adobe flash player.

After that, every time you boot Microsoft Edge, you can see the Adobe flash player is enabled on Windows 10. And if you feel like to disable flash player, make attempt to just switch off this choice – Use Adobe Flash Player.

Related: Microsoft Edge Keeps Crashing on Windows 10

Part 3: Enable Firefox Flash Player on Windows 10

In the same way, it is also feasible for you to get the Adobe Flash Player for Firefox. You may as well to do that if you have Mozilla Firefox installed on Windows 10.

You will obviously see that the flash player is Shockwave Flash rather than the normal Adobe flash player.

1. Turn on Mozilla Firefox.

2. In Firefox webpage, on the top right corner, click Settings image (three lines) and then pick out Add-ons.

3. Then on the right pane, choose Plugins and then set it as Always Active.

And if here you find the Adobe flash player is not working, manage to update it from the official site and then enable it again for Windows 10.

Part 4: Enable Windows 10 Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer

For the people who have flash player on Windows 10, you might as well spare no efforts to update the flash player. Once you got the newest version of Adobe flash player, you could also enable it on the browser Internet Explorer.

Here you need to pay attention that the flash player in Internet Explorer is Shockwave Flash Object.

1. Double click the Internet Explorer on your Desktop to turn on it.

2. In Internet Explorer, hit the Settings image and then select Manage add-ons in it.

3. Then under Toolbars and Extensions, locate Shockwave Flash Object and then make sure it is Enabled.