Comments on: Uninstalling/Downgrading Flash Player http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/ Reality Sucks! I'm Going to Keep On Dreamin........ Tue, 24 Apr 2012 04:48:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Another Dreamer http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-268 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:24:10 +0000 http://extremeconflicts.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-268 Glad I was able to help :)

]]> By: freakqnc http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-257 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:44:36 +0000 http://extremeconflicts.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-257 Much love and tanks man!
I was ready to bang my head against the wall, but then I found this page and solved the problem… Isn’t it funny that Adobe did not give a damn about placing these instruction in their uninstaller page (http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/141/tn_14157.html)? How/where did you find out how to do it via command line?

I guess it would be too much to ask them to place a &^%*ing check box in the installer to trigger the “/clean” option without having to resort to the command line!

I really hate the way adobe “hides” the link to older players on their website, it should be a damn well visible link in the installer download page… at least as visible as the link to get the player for different systems.

Thanks again! And keep up the good work!
Best!

PS: I love the header statement: “Reality Sucks! I’m Going to Keep On Dreamin……..” :)

]]> By: Another Dreamer http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-179 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:46:02 +0000 http://extremeconflicts.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-179 Not if u use their own uninstallers..
And why would they want that.. user should be free to install whichever version they want

]]> By: Eric Wilde http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-176 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:50:05 +0000 http://extremeconflicts.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-176 Going from 10 to 9 should fail as well, at least according to the FP team.

]]> By: Another Dreamer http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-171 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:33:12 +0000 http://extremeconflicts.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-171 actually there’s no problem if you back to 9 from 10.. but try going to 10.0.12 from 10.0.22.. aargh.. and you do need to at times.. esp developers and testers.. Without the clean option you can never do that. And You can’t find it anywhere in official docs.. there’s uninstaller.. there are old builds.. but no side note.. if uninstaller doesn’t work, use clean command.. very irritating.. took me few restarts and lotsa googling to figure it out.. so had to blog it. :)

]]> By: Eric Wilde http://extremeconflicts.me/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-165 Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:22:25 +0000 http://extremeconflicts.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/uninstallingdowngrading-flash-player/#comment-165 This is actually by design and has cost us many customer service calls.

It is a security violation if you allow the user to install a previous version of the flash player after having installed a later version. Because of this we saw many install failures of the Creative Suite 3. We fixed most of the problems for the Creative Suite installer around flash player install issues; but, not all. This one we worked around in a couple of ways to make it far more likely to succeed installing CS even when the flash player fails to install.

I’ve argued with the security team and the flash player team about the very low severity of the security flaw and the need to remove this block; but, they refuse to budge. At this time it isn’t worth my effort to continue fighting since our workaround address the majority of the issues. Lately, Creative Suite 4 installation failures due to flash player install problems is way down. The few that do come up are caused by actual bugs in the flash player installer rather than whacked designed behavior.

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