The update is made available for all supported operating system versions, and as such listed on two pages and in 38 different versions total. The only recourse after the installation of the update is to either reset the device to an earlier system restore point (prior to the installation of the Flash removing update), or to reinstall the entire Windows operating system.Īdministrators can download the update from the Microsoft Update Catalog site. Microsoft notes that Adobe Flash Player cannot be installed again once the update has been applied to a system. KB4577586, the Update for the removal of Adobe Flash Player, is released early by Microsoft to provide Microsoft customers with ample time to test the update and the removal of Flash Player on Windows systems.

The update is only available on the Microsoft Update Catalog website and not via Windows Update, WSUS or other update management systems at the time of writing. KB4577586 will remove the native Flash Player installation on Windows 10 and 8.1 devices it is installed on. Adobe Flash will be retired at the end of 2020 and companies like Microsoft, Google, and Mozilla have announced that they will drop support for the product in their browsers and systems. Microsoft has released an optional update for Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 that will remove all traces of Adobe Flash Player from the operating systems when installed.

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