Adobe Flash Player
by Adobe
What is Adobe Flash Player?
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Overview
Adobe Flash Player is published by Adobe. You can find out more about Adobe Flash Player at its official website or at Adobe's website.
How do I clean Adobe Flash Player?
Adobe Flash Player may store excess, temporary data on your computer that can take up valuable space. It may also store private data such as passwords or browsing history in the registry or on the file system. The easiest way to erase this data is by downloading AppCleaner, it is 100% free and about 1MB in size. A portable version is also available.
Clean Adobe Flash Player
with AppCleaner
If you want to clean Adobe Flash Player manually, you can follow the steps outlined below. There are eight locations in the file system where Adobe Flash Player stores data that can be cleaned.
Files
To clean your file system from files stored by Adobe Flash Player and to gain free disk space, examine the following file system locations. First of all, open a command prompt window:
- Hit the Windows key , usually located in the lower left of your keyboard between the Ctrl and Alt keys.
- Windows XP/Vista/7: Click Run...
- Type cmd
- Hit Enter
Now list all the files stored by Adobe Flash Player that can be cleaned:
- Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Adobe/Flash Player/AssetCache/*
- Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Adobe/Flash Player/AFCache/*
- Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Adobe/Flash Player/Icon Cache/*
- Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Adobe/Flash Player/NativeCache/*
- Type dir %WinDir%/System32/Macromed/Flash/FlashInstall.log
- Type dir %WinDir%/System32/Macromed/Flash/install.log
- Type dir %WinDir%/SysWOW64/Macromed/Flash/FlashInstall.log
- Type dir %WinDir%/SysWOW64/Macromed/Flash/install.log
- Type dir /s %APPDATA%/Macromedia/Flash Player/#SharedObjects/*.sol
- Type dir %APPDATA%/Macromedia/Flash Player/macromedia.com/support/flashplayer/sys/#*
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For all the folders that were listed in the previous step:
Type dir {folder}\settings.sol where {folder} is one of the folders listed in the previous step.
Once you have identified the files stored by Adobe Flash Player that you want to clean, delete them using the del command or Windows Explorer.