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.

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