What is Adobe Flash Player 32 PPAPI?

Adobe Flash Player 32 PPAPI is software application developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 82.48% of installations running this operating system. Adobe Flash Player 32 PPAPI's installer is typically 70.00 MB in size and installs around 179 files. The most common release is 32.0.0.303 with 50.21% of all installations currently using this version.

Adobe Flash Player 32 PPAPI is most popular in the United States with 59.21% of installations residing in this country.

Adobe Flash Player 32 PPAPI adds 6 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:

FlashUtil32_32_0_0_142_Plugin.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 7:19 PM).
FlashUtil32_29_0_0_140_Plugin.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 3:11).
FlashUtil32_29_0_0_171_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 7:08 PM).
FlashUtil32_30_0_0_113_pepper.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 07:57 p.m.).
FlashUtil32_30_0_0_134_ActiveX.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Notifier' (runs daily at 10:19 AM).
FlashPlayerUpdateService.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Adobe Flash Player Updater' (runs daily at 11.06).

Startup Entries

Registry entries (User):

FlashUtil32_28_0_0_161_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_28_0_0_161_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_29_0_0_140_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_29_0_0_140_ActiveX.exe -update activex.
FlashUtil32_30_0_0_113_pepper.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_30_0_0_113_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_29_0_0_171_pepper.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_29_0_0_171_Plugin.exe -update plugin.
FlashUtil32_27_0_0_130_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_27_0_0_130_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.
FlashUtil32_26_0_0_126_pepper.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_26_0_0_126_pepper.exe -update pepperplugin.

Software Details

URL:

https://www.adobe.com

Support:

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

Installation path:

C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash

Uninstaller:

C:\windows\syswow64\macromed\flash\flashutil32_32_0_0_238_pepper.exe -maintain pepperplugin

Size:

70.00 MB

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