Though Adobe stopped serving updates for its Flash Participant final month — and can disable the plug-in on Jan. 12 — Microsoft shall be accountable for uninstalling the software program from Home windows PCs.

(Adobe has really useful that customers take away Flash from their private computer systems to “assist safe your system since Adobe doesn’t intend to concern Flash Participant updates or safety patches after the EOL Date.”)

Customers can, after all, manually uninstall Flash utilizing the steps Adobe posted on its web site.

However Microsoft has a plan to wash Flash from all Home windows 10 and Home windows 8.1 PCs this yr, a plan that does not depend on customers taking motion.

October 2020

Microsoft seeded “Replace for Removing of Adobe Flash Participant” to the Microsoft Replace Catalog on Oct 26. The replace, additionally recognized as KB4577586, “completely removes Adobe Flash Participant as a part of the Home windows OS gadgets.”

Customers can choose the appropriate-to-their-OS model of KB4577586, then obtain and apply it to their PC. Microsoft famous that the replace removes solely the Flash Participant put in by Home windows. “Should you put in Adobe Flash Participant manually from one other supply, it is not going to be eliminated,” Microsoft mentioned in a assist doc.