What is Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX & Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX & Plugin is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows XP with nearly 75.86% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX & Plugin's installer is typically 11.00 MB in size and installs around 18 files. The most common release is 10.1.102.64 with 58.62% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX & Plugin is most popular in the United States with 37.59% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX & Plugin adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX & Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player 10 ActiveX is a software application designed for the purpose of viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio content within a web browser on a computer. It is capable of running SWF files, which can be generated using the Adobe Flash authoring tool, Adobe Flex, or other third-party tools. Flash Player is available as a plugin for various web browsers, including Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Safari, and it has been integrated into the distribution of Google Chrome. The plugin is backward-compatible with previous versions, and it is freely available for download. Please note that Adobe Flash Player has now reached end-of-life and is no longer supported by Adobe or major web browsers. It is recommended to transition to alternative software for viewing multimedia content.

Software Behaviors

Services:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe runs as a service named 'Adobe Flash Player Update Service' (AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc) "This service keeps your Adobe Flash Player installation up to date with the latest enhancements and security fixes.".

Scheduled tasks:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash - weekly update' (runs weekly on Tuesdays at 12:00 PM).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Adobe Flash Player Updater.

Registry entries (User):

FlashUtil32_12_0_0_77_Plugin.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_12_0_0_77_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_11_8_800_168_Plugin.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_8_800_168_Plugin.exe -update plugin.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.adobe.com

Support:

https://www.adobe.com/go/flashplayer_support

Installation path:

C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash

Uninstaller:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Uninstall.exe -maintain

Size:

11.00 MB

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