Detailed answers to the special Flash Player that comes with Windows 8

1. This Flash Player comes with the installation of Windows 8 and can't find the uninstaller in the control panel, but you can see its icon for configuration.

2. This Flash Player is used unlimitedly in the desktop version of IE10. In the Metro version of IE10, only sites that exist in the compatibility whitelist can use Flash to render content.

3. This Flash Player update is pushed by Windows Update:

Since Win8 has built-in Flash Player and is not yet a simple "pre-installed" concept, it is by Microsoft via Windows Update. It is also natural to take care of its updates and patches, which also facilitates the push of users, enterprise IT administrators and security patches. However, from this level of cooperation, Microsoft has already obtained the source code of Flash Player, and confirmed that the source code should be fairly good.

Let's take a look at where this particular Flash Player is. Open the task manager, you can find the process named FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe, which is the active process of the Flash Player plug-in that comes with Win8 IE10. Its file location is located in %SystemRoot%System32MacromedFlash.

To manage the disabling and enabling of this Flash Player, we need to do this through the IE browser's add-on management tool.

If there is a problem with this particular Flash Player, you can't reinstall it by downloading the Flash installer. The correct reloading method should be to reinstall the IE10 browser, ie via "enable in appwiz.cpl or Turn off the Windows feature " to turn off the IE10 feature first, then enable it. If this doesn't work, then you need to run DISM /online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth and even the SFC /scannnow command to detect and fix problems in Windows 8 system components and system files.

For Windows Server 2012, IE does not have Flash Player installed by default. Some users try to download and install Flash Player, but they can't install it. The reason is also because Server 2012 also has this special Flash built in. Player, just not enabled by default. Therefore, to access Flash content using the IE10 browser on Server 2012, you can only enable the built-in Flash Player by installing the User Interfaces and Infrastructure - Desktop Experience feature.