Adobe started showing Flash Player uninstall warnings on Windows 10

Adobe started to display warnings on Windows 10 computers, recommending users to uninstall Flash Player. The company thanks users for using the product and reminds that it will not work from January 12, 2021.

Flash Player created the “Adobe Flash Player PPAPI Notifier” scheduled task that runs the following command: C: Windows SysWOW64 Macromed Flash FlashUtil32_32_0_0_465_pepper.exe “-update pepperplugin.

When you run the command, the following warning is displayed: “Thanks for using Adobe Flash Player. Adobe ended support for Flash Player after December 31, 2020. To protect your system, Adobe will block Flash content from running in Flash Player starting January 12, 2021. For more information, see the Adobe Flash Player EOL general information page. ”

This year Adobe presented a new Flash Player configuration option called EOLUninstallDisable that allows you to hide uninstallation advisory warnings. By default, EOLUninstallDisable is set to 0, however, if the parameter is set to 1, then Adobe warnings will not be shown to the user.

Adobe released the last Flash Player update in early December. After December 31st, Flash Player download pages were removed, and from January 12th, Adobe will begin blocking the playback of multimedia content through Flash Player.

In October, Microsoft already released update KB4577586, which removes Flash from custom and server Windows operating systems.

The Internet Archive has begun creating a new collection of Flash content using the built-in Ruffle emulator. It includes protomemes, old Flash games, and animation. You can view the collection from any browser that supports WebAssembly.