Detecting Flash Player or plugin on stand alone systems

[TISD_Webmaster]

I have been tasked to download and apply the latest flash player (to be in compliance with Operational Directives for patching vunerabilities) to our stand alone systems which are not connected to the internet.  These systems cannot be connected to the network because of existing contract agreements between our organization and the contractor.  I was able to download the latest version of flash player/plugin for these stand alone computers.  Our office is not interested in installing Flash player to computers that do not have flash already pre-installed, just the ones that have old versions that need to be patched.  My problem is everything I have researched involves solutions that require access to a webpage/internet to verify if Flash has been installed.  Is there another method to verify if Flash Player or the plugin are on these computers without being connected to a network/internet?  We are also not permitted to install any 3rd party software that is not approved for use within our organization. Any suggstions will be appreciated.  All the the computers are 32bit OS - Windows XP SP3 or Windows Server 2003.

[pwillener · Accepted solution]

You can download the standalone installers from http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/fp_distribution3.html

Testing if Flash Player is installed - will you do that manually, or with a script?

FP is installed at

• C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash (32-bit systems)
• C:\Windows\syswow64\Macromed\Flash (64-bit systems)

[TISD_Webmaster]

Thanks for the reply!

No scripts are being used, just manually checking each stand alone system that needs the updates.

Are the windows location listed in your response apply only to installed FP application or does that include plugins as well?

[pwillener]

Flash Player installs only browser add-ons; it is not a standalone (or executable) application.

The add-on for Internet Explorer is an ActiveX control with modules Flash10*.ocx, FlashUtil10*_ActiveX.dll, FlashUtil10*_ActiveX.exe (where the '*' in the name changes with each release version).

The plugin for Firefox and other browsers are FlashUtil10*_Plugin.exe and NPSWF32.dll

You could write a little script that goes and check for the presence of one of this folders, and if they exist you can assume that FP is installed on that system.

[XtremeXTek]

im in a similar situation but i need to deteermine the actual version of flash player installed.  i whent to the install location given above and whent through each of the files there.  there were two files, Flash10k.ocx and Flash10l.ocx that contained flash player vesion numbers in their properties on the details tag.  is the nameing convention the same acros the board meaning if i find the file Flash10l.ocx does that mean that version 10.1.102.64 is installed?

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[pwillener]

XtremeXTek wrote:

is the nameing convention the same acros the board meaning if i find the file Flash10l.ocx does that mean that version 10.1.102.64 is installed?

That is correct.