What is Adobe Flash Player 15 ActiveX & Plugin?

Adobe Flash Player 15 ActiveX & Plugin is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 67.95% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 15 ActiveX & Plugin's installer is typically 35.00 MB in size and installs around 46 files. The most common release is 15.0.0.152 with 38.46% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 15 ActiveX & Plugin is most popular in the United States with 23.98% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 15 ActiveX & Plugin adds 2 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

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 Player Updater' (runs daily at 20:09).
FlashUtil32_20_0_0_267_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 01:43).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

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

Registry entries (User):

FlashUtil32_21_0_0_182_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_21_0_0_182_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_20_0_0_267_pepper.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_20_0_0_267_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_20_0_0_235_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_20_0_0_235_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_18_0_0_232_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_18_0_0_232_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_18_0_0_160_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_18_0_0_160_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_17_0_0_134_Plugin.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.

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:

35.00 MB

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