When this or that problem arises, for example, if you cannot watch a video in a browser, or play online games on a computer, this is usually due to the fact that Adobe Flash Player, due to a system failure or other circumstances, does not work correctly. If you have problems with video display or you can’t launch and play some online game, then often it’s enough just to reinstall Adobe Flash Player, or update to the latest version.

However, many users quite often encounter the fact that neither reinstallation, nor updating to the latest version or rolling back to the previous one solves the problem with playing videos, launching games, and so on. In such cases, Adobe, the program developer, recommends using special utility to completely remove this software product. The program (Uninstaller) for uninstalling Flash Player is available for download from the official Adobe website or on this page using the “Download” link below.

To completely uninstall Adobe Flash Player from operating system Windows is “without tails”, you need not only to use the removal utility, but also to perform a number of actions yourself, which will subsequently make it possible with a high degree of probability to eliminate any existing problems associated with the flash player.

First, be sure to close all browsers you are running, as well as applications that may use Flash, in particular these can be various instant messengers, multimedia players and other programs.

Then we run the utility to remove the flash player or, in other words, Uninstaller. After the setup wizard completes its work, you will still need to find and delete files and folders remaining after deletion. This can be done using the operating system explorer, or the standard Windows tool – “Run” (you can call it using the keyboard shortcut “Win” + “R”).

First, delete all files and folders here: C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash

Then, we also check for the presence and delete, if any, files and folders in the following paths:

• C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
• %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
• %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player

If you cannot delete a file or folder, simply restart your computer and try again. At this stage, the removal of Adobe Flash Player can be considered complete.

You can check the functionality of the flash player.

If everything was done correctly and the uninstallation was successful, you will see an empty gray rectangle, as in the screenshot below.

In case something went wrong and Flash Player is still working, you will see the following.

Restart your computer again and check again whether the flash player is working or not, the uninstallation should complete successfully.

This instruction describes the process of removing Adobe Flash Player from the operating room. Windows systems, instructions for Mac OS can be found.

Download the utility for removing Flash Player (Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller).

Please note that the browser Google Chrome already contains a built-in plugin (module) of Adobe Flash Player. Often, problems with video playback in Chrome or another Chromium browser (SRWare Iron, CoolNovo, etc.) are due to the fact that the browser's flash module and the version of Flash Player installed on the system conflict with each other. In this case, you can simply disable one of the modules by entering the following in your browser's address bar: chrome://plugins/.

This method is usually relevant and solves the problem with Adobe Flash Player, not only in Google Chrome, but also in other chromium browsers.

On this page we will figure out how to remove it so that you can then reinstall it. Such actions are necessary when the player starts to glitch or does not work.

A successful reinstallation with complete removal and subsequent installation allows you to fix many problems. Let's start with the elementary method.

Reinstalling Flash Player Using Control Panel

First of all, we will look at how to reinstall the flash player and analyze the whole process step by step.

Uninstall each version of the flash player, first closing all running browsers. If you forget to do this, the program will warn you about it. When this process is completed, restart your computer and reinstall the flash player from the link below.

This method does not completely remove all program components. And if it doesn’t help, then move on to another method.

Remove Flash Player completely from your computer

To allow you to completely remove Flash Player from your computer, Adobe has developed an uninstallation program. You need to download a program called Uninstaller from the following link:
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

Close all browsers. Now download and carefully read what the removal wizard says. Once it is finished, you will need to delete some files.

Open File Explorer (My Computer) and open the folder
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash

Delete all files in this folder.

Delete files from folders as well, but if there is no such folder, look at others.

• C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
• %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player
• %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player

The address can be copied and pasted into the address bar.

After deleting the files, the Adobe Flash Player removal process is considered complete. Now you can go download latest version Flash Player.

, and now I’ll show you how to reinstall it if problems arise with it.

What kind of problems could these be? First of all, these are any problems associated with playing video online, that is, the lack of sound or image. Also, problems with the flash player can manifest themselves in incomprehensible browser behavior when you get to a page with a video or flash content, and so on.

Before installing Flash Player again, you need to remove it, so let's figure out how to remove Adobe Flash Player.

So, let's go.

First, you need to go to Control Panel and remove the flash player from the uninstall programs window.

Very often you will see two flash players in the list of programs installed on your computer: Adobe Flash Player ActiveX and Adobe Flash Player Plugin.

Active X technology Applies to browser only Internet Explorer. For all other browsers, a special plugin is installed, that is, a small application designed to expand the capabilities of the browser.

Before deleting the flash player, you must close all running this moment browsers.

You may know that uninstalling programs through a window Control panels usually does not remove programs completely. As a rule, “tails” remain in the system, that is, some file fragments of the programs being deleted. In the case of a flash player, the situation is similar, so to completely remove all traces of a flash player from your computer, you can use a utility specially developed for this from Adobe itself.

The uninstaller utility can be downloaded for free from the official website by following the link:

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

There is nothing complicated there - before launching the utility, close all browsers and then follow the steps of the wizard.

But that's not all.

It is likely that some files will still remain on the computer. We will need to find them and remove them manually.

For example, using Explorer, go to the folder:

C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash

This can be done easier - in the Run window, which is called by the combination Win keys+R, paste the full path to the folder and it will open in Windows Explorer.

All files should be deleted from this folder. Next you will need to delete files from the folders:

• C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
• %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
• %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player

Not all of these folders will necessarily be on your computer, so if some are missing, then simply look for the files in the next one on the list.

After everything is done, you can check our computer for the presence of a flash player on the official website. To do this, follow the link http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html .

That's it, the flash player is completely removed from your computer.

Another important point is that Google browser Chrome flash player is built-in by default and the built-in player cannot be removed using the above method. If you have any problems with the Google Chrome flash player, you should disable it using the command: chrome://plugins. I will talk about this in one of the following posts.

After completely removing the flash player, you can download and install again .

In the previous article I showed, and now I will show how to remove Adobe Flash Player in order to reinstall it. This is necessary when the player starts to glitch and act up.

Correct reinstallation with complete removal and installation from scratch helps solve most problems. And, of course, you can watch the whole process in the video at the end of the article.

In the simplest case, just go to “Control Panel -> Uninstall a program” and remove flash players from there.

The screenshot shows two installed versions player:

• "Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX" - for Internet Explorer
• "Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin" - for all other browsers

Accordingly, you need to remove both components, but before that you need to close all browsers. If this is not done, we will receive a warning:

and until the specified browsers are closed, the program will not go further. But such removal does not completely clean the system. Here we need to act differently.

Complete removal of Flash Player from Windows

Adobe has specially prepared a utility for more complete file cleaning. Go to the download page and download the “uninstaller” utility

Let’s launch and follow the wizard, who will do everything quickly and efficiently. Of course, don’t forget to close all browsers! After it finishes, you still need to clean up some files, since Adobe Flash Player cannot be removed with just one uninstaller.

Open the “Run” window using the “Win ​​+ R” buttons or just open Windows Explorer and paste the following path into the address bar: “ C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash" When the folder opens, you need to delete all files from there!

If it doesn’t allow you to delete it, then read the article “” or just reboot. Then we do the same for folders:

If a folder does not exist, then move on to the next one. After clearing these folders of all files, you can consider removing Adobe Flash Player complete! You can always check the status on this page. This is done simply: if you see a banner with moving elements under the words “Can you see the movie below?”, then the player is still working, and if it’s just a gray square, then the deletion was successful!

Results

That's it, now you can and the reinstallation can be considered complete! In this short article, I showed how to properly remove Adobe Flash Player from a computer running the Windows operating system. To do this, you need to download the “uninstaller” utility and after it works, manually clean the remaining files. I hope you don’t have any difficulties with this now!

Let's watch the video!

Alexey Vinogradov, 2016-04-30 Edited: 2017-02-24

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