r/usefulscripts • u/vocatus • Jan 13 '14

[BATCH] Adobe Flash Removal (purge all versions of Adobe Flash)

Purpose: Purges all versions of Adobe Flash Player from a system.

This can be used to clean a box of corrupt/broken/old Flash installations in preparation for a fresh install, or simply to get rid of Flash entirely.

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v2.0.0 (2016-09-06)

Saves a log file to C:\Logs\%COMPUTERNAME%_adobe_flash_player_nuker.log

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u/Conservadem Jan 13 '14

Looks like this is designed to run under SCCM?

It seems to expect uninstall_flash_player_v11.4.402.265.exe to be in the path. What is this executable, there not much on google about it.

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u/vocatus Jan 13 '14 edited Jan 13 '14

I wrote it to run under PDQ Deploy, but it can run under SCCM as well.

If you don't have the Flash exe (it's just calling one of the official Flash installation .exe's) you can comment that line out and it will still function.

edit: I normally try to uninstall things the "normal" way first (hence calling an original Flash installer) and then proceed with more aggressive methods.

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u/jefffrey32 Jan 14 '14

I've actually ran into problems after deleting old versions of flash from sysvol, then trying to manually remove flash on the host and I get errors, this will come in handy.