Hi, even though I keep my Chrome Flash plugin disabled most of the time due to Flash Player being known as unsafe, there are times when it’s needed and enabled. Now I’ve seen that it’s preferable to use the built-in Chrome Adobe Flash as opposed to the separate Adobe Flash Player, but I’m not interested in uninstalling the stand-alone Flash Player.
So my Question is if there’s anything wrong in going into the Flash player folder (see line surrounded in red in attachment) and moving out the Plugin file to another location thus effectively disabling it forever, so now when Flash is enabled, only the Chrome one will be able to work since the other one won’t be in its folder thus being effectively useless (unless I move it back, which I don’t intend to at the moment).
I know that Chrome uses its built in Flash plugin by default over the other stand-alone one, but I still want to remove the stand-alone one. So I need to know if there can be any negative consequences from moving the plugin file out of its folder while it’s still installed on the computer.
If I understand you correctly, you want to disable the “safe” chrome flash plugin and use the “unsafe” flash instead ???
Maybe you need to do some more research first and rethink what you want to accomplish ???
Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox is a separate install, which can be uninstalled. Go to Add/Remove Programs and select Adobe Flash Player xx NPAPI.
It is the same with IE. Select Adobe Flash Player xx ActiveX. On Windows 8.x, IE itself handles the Flash version itself internally, similar to Chrome.
Uninstalling these will not affect Google Chrome’s Adobe Flash as it’s updates control which version of Adobe Flash is installed and used. It is furnished by Google.
It is possible (and likely if Flash works on all browsers) to have 3 different versions of Flash installed at the same time for different browsers. If Flash is needed in a browser, the version for that browser would have to be available.
No I want to disable the “Unsafe” stand-along Flash by moving it out of the folder, and only keep the “Safe” Chrome Flash.
As I wrote here:
[quote author=ehmen link=topic=165518.msg1178827#msg1178827 date=1422758210]So my Question is if there’s anything wrong in going into the Flash player folder (see line surrounded in red in attachment) and moving out the Plugin file to another location thus effectively disabling it forever, so now when Flash is enabled, only the Chrome one will be able to work since the other one won’t be in its folder thus being effectively useless (unless I move it back, which I don’t intend to at the moment).
You are mixing up things.
Flash plug-in and Flash Player are two different things.
If you want to remove a plug-in, you will have to remove it from browser as Gopher John said.
No, I din’t mix anything up, what I want to do is exactly what I wrote above, see the attachment and the line surrounded in red.
I want to move that file out of its folder, after which it disappears from Chrome’s plugin list (I tried it, so I know what I’m talking about) effectively disabling it.
I’m just asking if there can be any negative repercussions as a result, that’s all.
I’m sorry you didn’t understand my question.
In one sentence it was, if there’s anything wrong in moving the file surrounded in red out of its folder effectively disabling it from functioning.
Though I thank you Eddy for you attempt to help anyway.
Hi you all, I figured out a much better solution than moving the NPSWF32_16_0_0_296.dll out of its folder “C:\Windows\System32\Macromed\Flash”.
I just logged in as admin, went into the folder, clicked on the icon, and in the permissions tab, denied the used account access to it, and then it vanishes from the list, effectively disabling it.
Now take a look in the Plugin list and you’ll only see the “Safer” Chrome Flash plugin, not the stand-along Flash plugin that you saw above (surrounded in red). So in the few instances that Flash will need to be enabled, only the Chrome one will have that possibility, since the other one doesn’t exist for this user.
I know you mean it well and are trying to do things, but you got a huge lack of knowledge.
I strongly suggest you let someone do it that does know what he is talking about.
You are only making it harder and harder for yourself and likely are gonna screw up things big time.
As you have shown in your other thread, you can’t even install gpe following step-by-step instructions.
Good question.
I don’t know, it happened a long time ago, maybe before Chrome was installed (and was there ever since).
No Eddy, you still haven’t shown me a article that claims Home Premium has or allows it, while I clearly showed you that Home Premium doesn’t have it.
Why don’t you just provide one link directly to an article (not to a Google.nl page) that gives a step-by-step guide to install GPE, and most importantly - claims that it’s possible in Home Premium, which I showed you isn’t the case.
I’ll re-paste here again for your convenience:
Again:
The Local Group Policy Editor will only be available in the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterpise editions. You will not have the Local Group Policy Editor available in the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions.
One more thing Eddy, what exactly will I screw up by denying permission on the Flash file to one user?
The permissions are an option Windows offers PC users in case they like to take advantage of it, which is what I’m doing here
So Eddy, can you post a link to an actual article showing how to install GPE in Home Premium, or are you just going to say that I don’t know what I’m talking about?
Even though I clearly explain what I’m doing, and I post and quote from actual articles that talk about Home Premium, while you won’t show any articles discussing the aforementioned.
In the google results there is a link clearly saying
Download GPEDIT VISTA SETUP and install it. It will bring back GPEDIT for all versions of Windows Vista.
http://www.techmynd.com/enable-grouppolicy-gpedit-for-windows-vista-home/#ixzz3Qx3U5RqW
even Microsoft offers it:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17835
So yes, you don’t have a clue about what you are doing.
If you had, you would already succeeded with installing and using the GPE.
First of all Eddy, thank you for finally coming through with a article.
Second, I’m just wondering, why would techmynd.com give a whole workaround involving copying files from a different version of Vista to a Home Premium computer, if GPE is offered in a direct download from Microsoft’s website?
At this point, an apology to Eddy is actually in order.
This topic could have been concluded many posts ago simply by you following
some of the prior links and doing a little research on your own.
Google is your friend using it opens up a world of information and shares the knowledge of many to any one willing to look.
Second, I'm just wondering, why would techmynd.com give a whole workaround involving copying files from a different version of Vista to a Home Premium computer, if GPE is offered in a direct download from Microsoft's website?
Often there are multiple ways to get something done. It is kinda like the saying: "all roads lead to Rome"
It wasn’t me who insisted, it was them (and more), below:
The Local Group Policy Editor will only be available in the Vista Business, Ultimate, and Enterpise editions. You will not have the Local Group Policy Editor available in the Vista Home Basic and Home Premium editions.
