Windows 10: How to restore flash player so that your old screensavers work.

Unfortunately, if you are like me and you have some awesome screensavers that use macromedia flash player, you recently discovered that you can't even download old versions of the player anymore. And Windows 11 will not let you install it as the uac prevents this. However if you are vigilant you can shut of the UAC control. I will not go into the specifics but you can google this and find out how to shut off uac. The only other way to work around the UAC is to find old software that has macromedia flash player bundled in it. Because the installer is activated within the package/shell ins

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Flash Player

Hi,

One possible cause why your Flash Player was not working is due to a software conflict. To isolate your issue, we'd to know if you've tried accessing the involved sites using another browser. Does the issue still persist?

Meanwhile, we suggest that you follow these steps to download Flash Player and make sure Flash Player settings is turned on:

• If you see a Blocked Adobe Flash content puzzle piece near the Favorites button, click it, then either
  Allow once or Always allow to allow Flash on the page.
• If you don't see a Blocked Adobe Flash content puzzle piece but you do not see a note to download flash on the page, click the download link and Edge should enable the puzzle piece so you can follow step 1.

Let us know if you need further assistance

 

Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller 34.0.0.105

Over on Techspot they have posted Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller 34.0.0.105

In the "how to use this software" section there was this (its the "Copy/Run" at the very bottom that I'm concerned about):

Download the uninstaller for Flash Player The Flash Player uninstaller executes on both 64-bit and 32-bit version of the Windows operating systems. Save the file in a location where you can find it easily after you restart your computer. For example, save it on your Windows desktop.

Exit all browsers and other programs that use Flash


The uninstaller does not work if any programs that use Flash are running on your computer.

• Look at the taskbar. If the taskbar contains program icons for a browser or for a game that uses Flash, right-click each icon and choose Close. This example shows a browser in the taskbar:
• Look at the icons in the system tray for programs that run in the background. Examples include AOL Instant Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, and games that use Flash (any file with a name that ends in .swf). If you see such an icon, right-click the icon and click Exit, as shown in this example:

Run the uninstaller

• Double-click the icon of the uninstaller that downloaded to your computer.
• Follow the prompts. If you see the message "Do you want to allow the following program to make changes to this computer?," click Yes.
• Delete Flash Player files and folders.
  • Click Start > Run.
  • Copy and paste the following and click OK.
  • C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash
  • Delete all the files in this folder.
  • Follow step 1 to step 3 for the following:
    • C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
    • %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
    • %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player

 

adobe flash player not working since windows 10 installed

Hi David,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community.

To resolve the issue I may need some more information:

• 
  Do you get any error messages?
  
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  Is the issue specific to any particular website?
  

I would suggest you to try the steps in the article and check if it helps.

Flash Player games, video, or audio don't work | Windows

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/flash-player-games-video-or.html

Get back to us, we’ll be glad to assist you.

Thank you.