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terrancew65294399
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May 13, 2019
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Uninstall Shockwave silently

  • May 13, 2019
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I need to build package to uninstall shockwave silently in windows environment ...any suggestions???

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    Correct answer _maria_

    Thank you for clarifying.

    Shockwave and Flash Player are 2 different products.  You're posting to the Flash Player forums, which is completely separate from Shockwave Player.  I was going to move this post to the Adobe Shockwave Player (Read-Only) forum for someone familiar with Shockwave Player assist, however, now that Adobe has end-of-lifed Shockwave, the forum has been set to read-only.

    I don't work on Shockwave and am not familiar with silent uninstall for Shockwave, however, if you're using the Shockwave MSI installer, you can use the MSI commands to uninstall it silently.

    For the Shockwave Player EXE installer, I searched in the Shockwave forums and tech notes and found Find current installers for Adobe Shockwave Player  which indicates that the uninstaller is saved at  C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\Shockwave <VersionNumber> (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Adobe\Shockwave <VersionNumber> on a 64-bit OS).  This tech note is for version 10 and the uninstaller file name seems to have changed from unwise.exe to uninstaller.exe at some point since then.  I installed the most recent version of Shockwave and used this uninstaller with the /S switch (uninstaller.exe /S) and it uninstalled Shockwave Flash silently.

    Hope this helps.

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    Maria

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    terrancew65294399
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    May 14, 2019

    Thank you Maria for the response, but I am talking about shockwave... will be removing it out of our environment since Adobe will no longer be supporting it and I need a uninstall package to deploy out...

    _maria_
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    _maria_Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 13, 2019

    I'm assuming you're referring to Flash Player, and not Shockwave Player

    To uninstall Flash Player silently, use the standalone uninstaller with the command line -uninstall (e.g. uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall).  Note that the uninstaller will *not* uninstall the embedded versions of Flash Player (PPAPI for Chromium-based browsers and Flash Player ActiveX Control on Windows 8 and above for Internet Explorer/Edge).  The embedded versions are managed by the respective browser vendors.

    For more information, see the Flash Player Admin Guide

    Note that if you have a custom mms.cfg file modifying the update options, running the standalone uninstaller will reset the update options to the default update options (notification auto-update).  If this is the case, you'll want to deploy the custom mms.cfg file when redeploying Flash Player.

    I'm making some assumption here, however, if you provide more information on your specific use-case we can provide more detailed information specific to your use case.

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    Maria

    terrancew65294399
    terrancew65294399Author
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    May 14, 2019

    Thank you Maria for the response, but I am talking about shockwave... will be removing it out of our environment since Adobe will no longer be supporting it and I need a uninstall package to deploy out...

    _maria_
    Community Manager
    _maria_Community ManagerCorrect answer
    Community Manager
    May 14, 2019

    Thank you for clarifying.

    Shockwave and Flash Player are 2 different products.  You're posting to the Flash Player forums, which is completely separate from Shockwave Player.  I was going to move this post to the Adobe Shockwave Player (Read-Only) forum for someone familiar with Shockwave Player assist, however, now that Adobe has end-of-lifed Shockwave, the forum has been set to read-only.

    I don't work on Shockwave and am not familiar with silent uninstall for Shockwave, however, if you're using the Shockwave MSI installer, you can use the MSI commands to uninstall it silently.

    For the Shockwave Player EXE installer, I searched in the Shockwave forums and tech notes and found Find current installers for Adobe Shockwave Player  which indicates that the uninstaller is saved at  C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\Shockwave <VersionNumber> (C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Adobe\Shockwave <VersionNumber> on a 64-bit OS).  This tech note is for version 10 and the uninstaller file name seems to have changed from unwise.exe to uninstaller.exe at some point since then.  I installed the most recent version of Shockwave and used this uninstaller with the /S switch (uninstaller.exe /S) and it uninstalled Shockwave Flash silently.

    Hope this helps.

    --

    Maria

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