The installer told me to close firefox, so I did. However, I prefer firefox so I am still trying to solve this problem. Meanwhile, before installing the "newer" version, I tried the same link on the other browsers I had - Google Chrome and Internet Explorer. I proceeded to the Adobe Flash website and, because I was unable to find any other solution, installed the player again, guessing there was a newer version. This was not normal due to the fact I updated Adobe Flash less than a week ago to the latest version from their official website, because of the same problem.
And for now I don't have an opportunity to experiment with KB4577586 myself, so I'm asking whether or not someone tried this out/knows the answers.While I was browsing through a website I commonly use, an error popped up telling me I had to update or get a flash player to play a song. I'm relatively new to Windows 10, so I don't have enough experience with this OS to answer these questions myself currently - I'm still adjusting to it.
However, that does not answer the question: if you try to install a third-party version of flash after the built-in first party Windows version is removed with KB4577586 - will it work or not ?Īlso the situation had changed since I wrote this post - Microsoft started gradually pushing out KB4577586 already in February without waiting for the summer. Like it mentions that if there was a non MS-distributed version of flash installed - it won't remove it.
The language in the description of KB4577586 is kind of vague.
As far as I understand, it removes the built-in Flash player of Windows 10 and its API - but will it also block third party flash installers going forward ? The description for KB4577586 does not clarify whether or not you can install and use flash after KB4577586 is installed - with a third party installer like an older (without a kill-switch) Adobe flash player version or Chinese version of flash that's still getting updates. That's kind of exactly the point of my question.
Is there are a possibility to manually "install" the flash components necessary to run flash players, flash decompilers and such by saving relevant files and then manually registering them with OS after the Windows flash removal patch is applied ?Īre you saying that even if you install and run older versions of Flash that even they will be blocked from running by Windows 10 updates eventually?
If there is any way of blocking this specific update (including group policies, third party software and such) ? Going on without Windows updates after that date to prevent this one from installation is not exactly an option eitherĭoes anyone know (preferably, actually tried to test it) if the said MS update prevents flash re-installation with the use of Adobe installer after it's applied (and will the flash using applications be able to detect and use Adobe installer based version after Windows built-in API and Windows player version removal) ? Thus, the embed version of Windows 10 flash player will be completely removed from the OS. However, as far as I understand, in summer 2021 the flash removal update KB4577586 (or whatever it will be called by that time) will become the permanent part of monthly cumulative updates. On Windows 10 there are patches to disable the kill switch on the embed Flash Player - though finding the information about them is a bit tricky. On Windows 7 you just have to do a complete uninstall with Adobe tool and then install an older version without a kill switch - a few fixes you lose that way are not that much of a deal anyway for running flash files locally. At the moment, continuing to execute flash files and flash-related software (like flash decompilers) locally is not that much of a problem.