How to Uninstall Adobe Flash Player Easily

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How to Uninstall FP from Mac and Windows
How to Uninstall FP from Mac and Windows

Rancakmedia.com - Here's how to uninstall Flash Player. Adobe will start blocking content that uses Flash Player on January 12. Support for Adobe Flash Player will also stop on December 31 2020. So, all major browsers will start to stop playing all services and animations that use Flash technology. Microsoft does this in most versions of Windows.

With Adobe stopping support, this means that this software will not receive security updates. So, it allows hackers to take advantage of Flash security gaps to enter the user's computer system.

What's more, nowadays there isn't a single browser that can play Flash, so this software really doesn't need to be kept any longer.

Adobe provides guidance on how to remove (uninstall) Adobe Flash Player on Windows and Mac.

How to uninstall Flash Player on Windows

  1. Download the uninstaller for Flash Player.
  2. Exit all browsers and other programs that use Flash.
  3. Run the uninstaller, as quoted from the Adobe page.
    – Double click the uninstaller icon downloaded to your computer.
    – Follow the instructions. Click Yes if you see the message “Do you want to allow the following programs to make changes to this computer?”
    – Delete all Flash Player files and folders
    – Select Start>Run
    – Copy and paste C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash then click OK.
    – Delete all files in this folder
    – Follow similar steps for C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
    %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
    %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player
  4. Verify that the uninstallation is complete
    – Restart the computer.
    – Open your browser and check the Flash Player status.

How to uninstall Adobe Flash Player on Mac

  1. Make sure which version of MacOS is installed
    How to Click the Apple icon and select About This Mac, then the Mac OS version will appear in the About This Mac dialog box, as reported on the Adobe page.
  2.  Uninstall process
    download according to the Mac version
    – Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later: uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
    – Mac OS
  3. Once downloaded, close all browsers, run the application, click uninstall.
    Delete this directory:
    – /Library/Preferences/Macromedia/Flash\ Player
    – /Library/Caches/Adobe/Flash\ Player
  4. Uninstall verification complete
    – Restart the computer.
    – Open your browser and check the Flash Player status.

Flash enjoyed a golden era in internet history. Because, this software is a special tool for creating animations on the internet. Even games at that time were made via Flash. The era where games are only available on PCs, not on cellphones is the same as is normal today.

Browsers started using Flash in the last dozen years. But in 2015, Adobe asked developers to switch to HTML5 as an alternative to Flash. In 2017, Adobe announced that it would stop supporting Flash 3 years later, as quoted by The Verge.

Sumber: cnnindonesia.com

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