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Anonymous
Feb 9, 2015 9:37 PM UTC
Question

Removing Flash Player ActiveX or NPAPI only

I am looking for a way to remove Flash player from computers, however I only want to remove the version that is not needed (Will be using SCCM 2012 R2).  I have clients that have the various version of Adobe Flash Player NPAPI installed, however only half of them actually have Firefox\Opera installed.  I would like to remove it, but using the instructions frond here: Uninstall Flash Player | Windows‌, will remove all versions, including the ActiveX version.  Is there a version of uninstaller or a way for me to remove all versions, including out-dated ones, but only for the NPAPI installer, or ActiveX installer.?

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    _maria_
    _maria_
    Legend
    Feb 23, 2017 3:37 PM UTC

    Hi,

    The following commands will delete only a specific player type (ActiveX, NPAPI, or PPAPI) on Windows systems:

    • ActiveX Control: uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall activex
      • Windows 7 and prior.  Microsofts embeds Flash Player for IE/Edge on Windows 8 and above and Adobe's Flash Player uninstaller will NOT remove the embedded Flash Player ActiveX Control.
    • NPAPI Plugin: uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall plugin
    • PPAPI Plugin: uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall pepperplugin

    This information is found in the Flash Player Administrator's Guide, page 9.

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    Maria

    <edited to include comment about Windows 8 and above>

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      AdmiralAwesome
      Participant
      Feb 23, 2017 3:34 PM UTC

      We are still on Windows 7 so we need a solution to remove NPAPI only since Chrome has an embedded Flash Player. Currently the NPAPI is a major security risk for us as it's not used and outdated and we want it removed asap.

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      AdmiralAwesome
      Participant
      Feb 23, 2017 12:54 PM UTC

      bump

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      divya010193
      Adobe Employee
      divya010193
      Adobe Employee
      Feb 23, 2017 3:32 PM UTC

      Hi,

      Provided uninstaller removes all the flash player types(NPAPI/PPAPI/ActiveX) installed on a system at once .

      However, for Windows 8/10 Microsoft embeds Flash Player in IE and all Flash Player for IE updates are released by Microsoft, not Adobe.

      Thanks!

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