going to bring this back from the dead... we have 1000+ PC's "win7 64" in the company, when we deploy the new flash in sccm 2012, we are getting from a 30 to 50% fail rate on installs whats going on is it "thinks" or sometimes has MULTIPLE versions of older flash installed that WONT uninstall, because its looking for a MSI patch that no longer exists. for us, its versions 16, 17, and now 18 i have built a Flash NUKE BAT file that 1st runs the uninstall_flash_player.exe, then taskkill /f /im firefox.exe /t taskkill /f /im palemoon.exe /t taskkill /f /im iexplore.exe /t taskkill /f /im iexplorer.exe /t taskkill /f /im skype.exe /t taskkill /f /im msiexec.exe /t then net stop AdobeARMservice sc delete AdobeARMservice net stop armsvc sc delete armsvc net stop AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc sc delete AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc then RMDIR /S /Q "%appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player" RMDIR /S /Q "%appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player" del /F /Q "%SystemDrive%\Windows\tasks\Adobe Flash Player Updater.job" then wmic product where "name like 'Adobe Flash Player%%'" call uninstall /nointeractive and even after all of that, there is still registry info left that it thinks it has a old version installed that it cant.. the last keys i found in here [-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\ when i do i search in REG for "Adobe Flash Player" ill find the stray keys and if i deleted them, the installer will work fine. the last key it found was this.. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4769600BC08DBC8458D288DA63AE0B5A] "Clients"=hex(7):3a,00,00,00,00,00 "ProductName"="Adobe Flash Player 18 NPAPI" "PackageCode"="6A58C9D43DBAC79468217A9F04BFE636" "Language"=dword:00000409 "Version"=dword:12000000 "Assignment"=dword:00000001 "AdvertiseFlags"=dword:00000180 "ProductIcon"="C:\\Windows\\Installer\\{B0069674-D80C-48CB-852D-88AD36EAB0A5}\\ARPPRODUCTICON.exe" "InstanceType"=dword:00000000 "AuthorizedLUAApp"=dword:00000000 "DeploymentFlags"=dword:00000001 [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4769600BC08DBC8458D288DA63AE0B5A\SourceList] "PackageName"="install_flash_player_18_plugin.msi" "LastUsedSource"="n;1;C:\\Windows\\ccmcache\\2\\" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4769600BC08DBC8458D288DA63AE0B5A\SourceList\Media] "DiskPrompt"="[1]" "1"="DISK1;1" [HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\4769600BC08DBC8458D288DA63AE0B5A\SourceList\Net] "1"=hex(2):43,00,3a,00,5c,00,57,00,69,00,6e,00,64,00,6f,00,77,00,73,00,5c,00,\ 63,00,63,00,6d,00,63,00,61,00,63,00,68,00,65,00,5c,00,32,00,5c,00,00,00 i need a way to scan the reg for the old, or any flash product codes, NOT the msi GUID's to remove the keys..
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