Update for the removal of Adobe Flash Player

As many of you have already heard, starting with December 31, 2020 Adobe ends support for Adobe Flash Player. Microsoft wanted to take a lead and hence, released an Update for the removal of Adobe Flash Player that has the role of permanently removing the tool from your operating system. The idea behind the patch is to provide a way for developers to test out the impact of removing Adobe Flash Player from the OS.

The update mainly addresses Windows 10 1909 edition and earlier as well as Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and several editions of Windows Server 2012, 2016 and 2019. It is important to note that the update is permanent and once installed, it cannot be undone. However, it is important to note that this does not affect the manual installation of the program and removing it entails getting rid of it in the classic way via the Control Panel.

On the other hand, if the need occurs, there are two methods for getting Adobe Flash Player back to your operating system, one of them being to reinstall your version of Windows. The second method entails that creating a system restore point as a backup before installing the patch. Restoring the PC ultimately brings back all the previous settings, including the Adobe program.