What is Adobe Flash Player 14 Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player 14 Plugin is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 61.64% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 14 Plugin's installer is typically 84.00 MB in size and installs around 479 files. The most common release is 14.0.0.145 with 65.22% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 14 Plugin is most popular in the United States with 47.77% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 14 Plugin adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

About Adobe Flash Player 14 Plugin?

This cross-platform plugin allows for the playback of animations, videos, and sound files in the .SWF format.

Software Behaviors

Services:

FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe runs as a service named 'AdobeFlashPlayerUpdateSvc' (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 with the class '{C52BB194-81D7-4744-8D60-02FAA798A8BF}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

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

Registry entries (User):

FlashUtil32_17_0_0_169_ActiveX.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_17_0_0_169_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_134_ActiveX.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_17_0_0_134_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_305_ActiveX.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_16_0_0_305_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_16_0_0_235_ActiveX.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'FlashPlayerUpdate' which loads as C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_16_0_0_235_ActiveX.exe -update activex.
FlashUtil32_15_0_0_189_ActiveX.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_15_0_0_189_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_15_0_0_167_ActiveX.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_15_0_0_167_ActiveX.exe -update activex.

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\FlashUtil32_14_0_0_95_Plugin.exe -maintain plugin

Size:

84.00 MB

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