Microsoft announces Flash end of support schedule: you can soon remove Flash from Windows entirely
Microsoft revealed today how it plans to deprecate and remove Adobe Flash Player from the company's browsers and operating systems. Administrators who want to remove Flash components entirely in Windows can do so from Fall 2020 onward.
Adobe announced in 2017 that it would retire the company's Flash Player in December 2020. The company would stop releasing updates for the program and would stop distributing the player.
Flash was an integral part of the Internet but advances in technology have changed that and made Flash more or less obsolete. While some sites still use it today, Flash is not as widely used anymore as it was in its prime days.
Browser makers such as Mozilla, Google or Microsoft announced plans to retire Flash in their products.
Adobe confirmed the retiring of Flash on December 31, 2020 in June 2020. The company will remove Flash downloads from its site after the end of support, and revealed that Flash content will be blocked from running in the payer after the end of support date.
Microsoft clarified its plans for the removal of Adobe Flash in its browser products Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge Legacy, and the new Microsoft Edge.
The company will release a final update for Adobe Flash in December 2020 as part of the company's monthly Patch Tuesday. Updates for Adobe Flash won't be released after December 2020 anymore, and beginning in January 2021, Adobe Flash Player will be "disabled by default and all versions older than the Flash Player update of June 2020 (see KB4561600) will be blocked automatically.
Flash downloads and resources related to Adobe Flash will no longer be hosted by Microsoft.
Windows administrators and users who don't need Flash anymore will be able to download an update titled "Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player" from the Microsoft Update Catalog in Fall 2020 to permanently remove Flash as a component from the operating system. Microsoft states explicitly that the update is permanent and that it cannot be uninstalled.
The update will be pushed to devices via Windows Update and WSUS at a later point in time, and made optional at first. The status of the update will be changed to recommended after a few months according to Microsoft.
Starting in Summer 2021, all "APIs, group policies, and user interfaces that specifically govern the behavior of Adobe Flash Player" will be removed from Internet Explorer 11 and Microsoft Edge (legacy); this will be done via cumulative updates for Windows 10, the cumulative update for Internet Explorer 11, monthly rollup updates for Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2021 and Windows Embedded 8 Standard.
The Update for Removal of Adobe Flash Player will be included as part of the cumulative operating system updates at this point. It needs to be noted that the removal of Flash using the update won't interface with Flash used in browsers such as Google Chrome if still provided at that point. It is necessary to install updates to remove Flash support from third-party browsers that include Flash.
Enterprise customers who require Flash support after December 2020 may contact Adobe. The company provides information on the available options, including options to run Flash content in internal environments after December 2020, here.
Now You: Do you still require Flash? Will you remove Flash prematurely from Windows?
What mental age of reader are you targeting with the first sentence? 10?
Why not write an article on how to *avoid* upgrading from W10 to W11. Analogous to those like me who avoided upgrading from 7 to 10 for as long as possible.
If your paymaster Microsoft permits it, of course.
5. Rufus
6. Ventoy
PS. I hate reading these “SEO optimized” articles.
I used Rufus to create an installer for a 6th gen intel i5 that had MBR. It upgraded using Setup. No issues except for Win 11 always prompting me to replace my local account. Still using Win 10 Pro on all my other PCs to avoid the bullying.
bit pointless to upgrade for the sake of upgrading as you never know when you’ll get locked out because ms might suddenly not provide updates to unsupported systems.
ps…. time travelling?
written. Jan 15, 2023
Updated • Jan 13, 2023
This happens when you schedule a post in WordPress and update it before setting the publication date.
Anyone willing to downgrade to this awful OS must like inflicting themselves with harm.
I have become convinced now that anybody who has no qualms with using Windows 11/10 must fit into one of the following brackets:
1) Too young to remember a time before W10 and W11 (doesn’t know better)
2) Wants to play the latest games on their PC above anything else (or deeply needs some software which already dropped W7 support)
3) Doesn’t know too much about how computers work, worried that they’d be absolutely lost and in trouble without the “”latest security””
4) Microsoft apologist that tries to justify that the latest “features” and “changes” are actually a good thing, that improve Windows
5) Uses their computer to do a bare minimum of like 3 different things, browse web, check emails, etc, so really doesn’t fuss
Obviously that doesn’t cover everyone, there’s also the category that:
6) Actually liked W7 more than 10, and held out as long as possible before switching, begrudgingly uses 10 now
Have I missed any group off this list?
You have missed in this group just about any professional user that uses business software like CAD programs or ERP Programs which are 99% of all professional users from this list.
Linux doesn’t help anyone who is not a linux kid and apple is just a fancy facebook machine.
Microsoft has removed KB5029351 update
only from windows update though
KB5029351 is still available from the ms update catalog site
1. This update is labaled as PREVIEW if it causes issues to unintelligent people, then they shouldn’t have allowed Preview updates ot install.
2. I have installed it in a 11 years old computer, and no problems at all.
3. Making a big drama over a bluescreen for an updated labeled as preview is ridiculous.
This is probably another BS internet drama where people ran programs and scripts that modified the registry until they broke Windows, just for removing stuff that they weren’t even using just for the sake of it.
Maybe people should stop playing geeks and actually either use Windows 10 or Windows 11, but don’t try to modify things just for the sake of it.
Sometimes removing or stopping things (like defender is a perfect example) only need intelligence, not scripts or 3rd party programs that might mess with windows.
Windows 11 was a pointless release, it was just created because some of the Windows team wanted to boost sales with some sort of new and improved Windows 10. Instead, Microsoft cannot support one version well let alone two.
Windows 11 is the worst ugly shame by Microsoft ever. They should release with every new W11 version a complete free version of Starallback inside just to make this sh** OS functionally again.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released a statement regarding the “unsupported processor” blue screen error for their boards using Intel 600/700 series chipsets & to avoid the KB5029351 Win11 update:
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/MSI-On–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–Error-Message-of-Windows-11-Update-KB5029351-Preview-142215
check out the following recent articles:
Neowin – Microsoft puts little blame on its Windows update after UNSUPPORTED PROCESSOR BSOD bug:
https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-puts-little-blame-on-its-windows-update-after-unsupported-processor-bsod-bug/
BleepingComputer – Microsoft blames ‘unsupported processor’ blue screens on OEM vendors:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-blames-unsupported-processor-blue-screens-on-oem-vendors/
While there may be changes or updates to the Windows 10 Store for Business and Education in the future, it is premature to conclude that it will be discontinued based solely on rumors.
My advice, I left win 15 years ago. Now I’m a happy linux user (linuxmint) but there is Centos, Fedora, Ubuntu depending on your needs.
motherboard maker MSI has recently released new BIOS/firmware updates for their Intel 600 & 700 series motherboards to fix the “UNSUPPORTED_PROCESSOR” problem (Sept. 6):
https://www.msi.com/news/detail/Updated-BIOS-fixes-Error-Message–UNSUPPORTED-PROCESSOR–caused-BSOD-on-MSI-s-Intel-700-and-600-Series-Motherboards-142277
I try to disable the Diagnostics Tracking Service (Connected Devices Platform User Services) but it wont let me disable it, any help will be greatly appreciated.
Tank you for your help