How To Easily Uninstall Adobe Flash Player

Rancakmedia.com – Here's how to unistall flash player Adobe will start blocking content that uses Flash Player on January 12. Support for Adobe Flash Player will also be stopped on December 31, 2020. Until then, all major browsers will start to stop playing all services and animations that use Flash technology. This is what Microsoft is working on in most versions of Windows.

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

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

Adobe provides a guide on how to uninstall Adobe Flash Player on Windows and Mac.

How to uninstall Flash Player on Windows

1. Download the uninstaller for Flash Player.
2. Quit all browsers and other programs that use Flash.
3. Run the uninstaller, as quoted from the Adobe page.
   – Double click on the icon of the uninstaller downloaded to your computer.
   – Follow the prompts. Click Yes when you see the message “Do you want to allow these 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 Flash Player status.

How to uninstall Adobe Flash Player on Mac

1. Make sure the MacOS version 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 from the Adobe page.
2.  Uninstall process
   download according to Mac version
   – Mac OS X, version 10.6 and later:uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
   – Mac OS X, versions 10.4 and 10.5:uninstall_flash_player_osx.dmg
3. After downloading, 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 Flash Player status.

Flash had enjoyed a golden age in the history of the internet. Because, this software is a special tool that wants to make animation on the internet. Even games at that time were made via Flash. The era where games were only available on PCs, not on cellphones, as is common nowadays.

Browsers started using Flash in the last dozen years. But in 2015, Adobe asked developers to move to HTML5 as an alternative to Flash. In 2017, Adobe announced it would be ending support for Flash 3 years later, as quoted by The Verge.

Source: cnnindonesia.com