On this page we will figure out how to remove it so that you can then reinstall it. Such actions are necessary when the player starts to glitch or does not work.
A successful reinstallation with complete removal and subsequent installation allows you to fix many problems. Let's start with the elementary method.
Reinstalling Flash Player Using Control Panel
First of all, we will look at how to reinstall the flash player and analyze the whole process step by step.
Uninstall each version of the flash player, first closing all running browsers. If you forget to do this, the program will warn you about it. When this process is completed, restart your computer and reinstall the flash player from the link below.
This method does not completely remove all program components. And if it doesn’t help, then move on to another method.
Remove Flash Player completely from your computer
To allow you to completely remove Flash Player from your computer, Adobe has developed an uninstallation program. You need to download a program called Uninstaller from the following link:
https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
Close all browsers. Now download and carefully read what the removal wizard says. Once it is finished, you will need to delete some files.
Open File Explorer (My Computer) and open the folder
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash
Delete all files in this folder. 
Delete files from folders as well, but if there is no such folder, look at others.
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
- %appdata%\Macromedia\ Flash Player
- %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
The address can be copied and pasted into address bar.
After deleting files, the deletion process Adobe Flash Player is considered complete. Now you can go download the latest Flash version Player.
Installed new version Adobe Flash Player, is it buggy? Lost sound in the browser? Has your Youtube video started to slow down? Or does it even ask you to update the flash player, even though you just installed it? This happens sometimes. IN in this case you need to reinstall Flash Player. That is, remove it and then install a new one. In most cases this will solve the problem.
What to do if deleting the flash player did not help? Then the last option remains. You will need to install a special utility to completely remove Adobe Flash Player from your computer. But first things first.
How to reinstall Flash Player?
It is very easy to remove Adobe Flash Player from your computer. For this:
Please note: in the screenshot above there are 2 flash players at once. The first (ActiveX) is for IE, and NPAPI is for other browsers (Mozilla, Opera, Yandex). If you have the same picture, then you need to delete both versions.
A separate plugin is installed for Chrome, and it is not displayed here.
This is the standard procedure for removing Adobe Flash Player. After that, install the new version again and everything should work: sound, video, games in the browser.
If this does not help, then you need to reinstall the flash player using the utility.
How to completely remove Flash Player?
The standard removal procedure leaves traces on the Windows system. To completely remove this plugin from your computer, you must use the Flash Player Uninstall utility from Adobe developers, designed specifically for such cases (link). 
You run it and follow the program instructions - it will do everything itself.
The only caveat: before you delete the old one Adobe version Flash Player, you need to exit all browsers.
When the removal of the flash player is successfully completed, there are still a few simple steps left to complete. After all, the Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller utility leaves a couple of extra folders.
To remove them manually:
Repeat the same procedure for folders:
- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
- %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player
- %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
Instead of Win + R, you can open any folder and copy all 4 items one by one into the top line for the address. Perhaps it will be easier and more convenient for you.
If a folder is missing, just skip it. If the files do not want to be deleted, restart your PC or laptop and try again. Or use Unlocker program(if there is).
This is how Flash Player is completely removed. You can make sure that you did everything correctly by opening this link. Click on “Check Now” and read the message. 
And finally, it’s worth noting about the flash player in Chrome.
How to remove an outdated Flash Player plugin in Chrome?
Chrome already has built-in Flash Player. And you won’t be able to remove it using this method. It comes as a plugin, so you can disable it by typing chrome://plugins in the address bar.
If there are certain problems (no sound or video is slow), try updating it manually. To do this, enter chrome://components in the address bar, find the flash player and click the “Check for updates” button.
That's all. Now you know how to properly remove Adobe Flash Player on a laptop or PC. And two different ways. Then all that remains is , after which video, audio and games in the browser should be played in normal mode (without glitches or slowdowns).
In the previous article I showed, and now I will show how to remove Adobe Flash Player in order to reinstall it. This is necessary when the player starts to glitch and act up.
Proper reinstallation with complete removal and installation from scratch helps solve most problems. And, of course, you can watch the whole process in the video at the end of the article.
In the simplest case, just go to “Control Panel -> Uninstall a program” and remove flash players from there.
The screenshot shows two installed versions player:
- "Adobe Flash Player 11 ActiveX" - for Internet Explorer
- "Adobe Flash Player 11 Plugin" - for all other browsers
Accordingly, you need to remove both components, but before that you need to close all browsers. If this is not done, we will receive a warning:
and until the specified browsers are closed, the program will not go further. But such removal does not completely clean the system. Here we need to act differently.
Complete removal of Flash Player from Windows
Adobe has specially prepared a utility for more complete cleaning files. Go to the download page and download the “uninstaller” utility
Let’s launch and follow the wizard, who will do everything quickly and efficiently. Of course, don’t forget to close all browsers! After it finishes, you still need to clean up some files, since Adobe Flash Player cannot be removed with just one uninstaller.
Open the “Run” window using the “Win + R” buttons or simply open Windows Explorer and paste the following path into the address bar: “ C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash" When the folder opens, you need to delete all files from there!
If it doesn’t allow you to delete it, then read the article “” or just reboot. Then we do the same for folders:
If a folder does not exist, then move on to the next one. After clearing these folders of all files, you can consider removing Adobe Flash Player complete! You can always check the status on this page. This is done simply: if you see a banner with moving elements under the words “Can you see the movie below?”, then the player is still working, and if it’s just a gray square, then the deletion was successful!
Results
That's it, now you can and the reinstallation can be considered complete! In this short article, I showed how to correctly remove Adobe Flash Player from a computer running operating system Windows. To do this, you need to download the “uninstaller” utility and after it works, manually clean the remaining files. I hope you don’t have any difficulties with this now!
Let's watch the video!
Alexey Vinogradov, 2016-04-30 Edited: 2017-02-24
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- C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash
- %appdata%\Adobe\Flash Player
- %appdata%\Macromedia\Flash Player
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What kind of problems could these be? First of all, these are any problems associated with playing video online, that is, the lack of sound or image. Also, problems with the flash player can manifest themselves in incomprehensible browser behavior when you get to a page with a video or flash content, and so on.
Before installing Flash Player again, you need to remove it, so let's figure out how to remove Adobe Flash Player.
So, let's go.
First, you need to go to Control Panel and remove the flash player from the uninstall programs window.
Very often you will see two flash players in the list of programs installed on your computer: Adobe Flash Player ActiveX and Adobe Flash Player Plugin.
Active X technology only applies to Internet browser Explorer. For all other browsers, a special plugin is installed, that is, a small application designed to expand the capabilities of the browser.
Before deleting the flash player, you must close all running this moment browsers.
You may know that uninstalling programs through a window Control panels usually does not remove programs completely. As a rule, “tails” remain in the system, that is, some file fragments of the programs being deleted. In the case of a flash player, the situation is similar, so for complete removal all traces of the flash player from your computer, you can use a utility specially developed for this from Adobe itself.
Uninstaller utility can be downloaded for free from the official website by following the link:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html
There is nothing complicated there - before launching the utility, close all browsers and then follow the steps of the wizard.
But that's not all.
It is likely that some files will still remain on the computer. We will need to find them and remove them manually.
For example, using Explorer, go to the folder:
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash
This can be done more simply - in the Run window, which is called up by the Win+R key combination, paste the full path to the folder and it will open in Windows Explorer.
All files should be deleted from this folder. Next you will need to delete files from the folders:
Not all of these folders will necessarily be on your computer, so if some are missing, then simply look for the files in the next one on the list.
After everything is done, you can check our computer for the presence of a flash player on the official website. To do this, follow the link http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html .
That's it, the flash player is completely removed from your computer.
Another important point- to the browser Google Chrome The flash player is built in by default and the built-in player cannot be removed using the method indicated above. If you have any problems with the Google Chrome flash player, you should disable it using the command: chrome://plugins. I will talk about this in one of the following posts.
After completely removing the flash player, you can download and install again .