Completely Remove or Uninstall Adobe Flash Player from Windows PC

Modern web browsers such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Firefox and others include a built-in copy of Flash. So, if you're using a Windows 10 computer, you can have up to 4 copies of Adobe Flash Player: one for Internet Explorer, one for Microsoft Edge, one for Firefox, and one for Opera, respectively. Also, you may find instances where two Flash players are running simultaneously, one installed in Chrome as a single plugin and the other installed in Windows, trying to analyze data.

In this case, you may want to remove or uninstall one of the Adobe Flash Player versions. This article walks you through the process of removing Built-in Adobe Flash from Windows 10 PC.

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How to Remove Adobe Flash Player from Windows PC

Before continuing, you must log in with your administrator account and disable Flash Player in your browser, even if you are not using it or setting it as your default browser.

To completely uninstall Adobe Flash Player from your Windows 10 computer, you can follow one of these methods:

1. Use Adobe Flash Uninstaller
2. Run KB4577586
3. Manually remove Flash.

Let's see these methods.

1]Use Adobe Flash Uninstaller

To completely uninstall and remove Adobe Flash Player from your Windows computer, download Adobe Flash Uninstaller by clicking here.

Next, close all your programs, including your browsers, and run Adobe Flash Uninstaller. It runs on both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Windows operating systems. Then delete all files from these folders:

Once you've done that, restart your computer.

Then open your browser and check the status of Flash Player by going here.

2] Run KB4577586

Adobe Flash Player will no longer be supported on December 31, 2020. To help users, Microsoft has released KB4577586 to uninstall Flash from your PC. You can use this flash removal tool, go here.

3]Manually remove Flash

Next, open File Explorer and navigate to C:\Windows\servicing\Packages and check the following entries-

Note these Adobe-Flash package names.

Now open the registry editor by launching the 'Run' dialog box and entering 'regedit.exe' in its empty field. Hit 'Enter'.

Right-click on the three keys that have the above 3 names, individually, one after the other, and select 'Permissions'.

Enable Full Control for the Administrators account by checking 'Allow'.

Click 'OK'.

Now select each of the 3 keys one after another and then select Visibility DWORD on the right side. Right-click on Visibility and change the value data from 2 to 1.

Repeat the same procedure for the other keys as well.

With this done, you will now be able to remove packages using the DISM utility. So open an elevated command prompt and run the following 3 commands one after the other:

  dism /online /remove-package /packagename:Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64-10.0.17134.1

  dism /online /remove-package /packagename:Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-WOW64-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64-10.0.17134.1

  dism /online /remove-package /packagename:Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-onecoreuap-Package~31bf3856ad364e35~amd64-10.0.17134.1

NOTE: The numbers at the end may be different in your case, due to the version number difference, so use the numbers for your system.

This action will delete everything inside the Macromed folder under System32 as well as SysWOW64 folders.

Restart your system.

This completes our complete Windows 10 built-in Adobe Flash Player removal action.

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