Removing Flash Player ActiveX or NPAPI only

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February 9, 2015
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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_

Community Manager

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

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AdmiralAwesome

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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 Currently the NPAPI is a major security risk for us as it's not used and outdated and we want it removed asap.