Built-in special Flash Player

Computer Store News: Windows 8 comes with a Flash player for Internet Explorer 10, which I believe has been noticed. However, this built-in Flash Player has some "special". This built-in Flash player is a touch-optimized Flash player developed by Microsoft and Adobe. It does differ from the Flash player downloaded from Adobe's official website. I remember reading an article a long time ago, which shows the difference between the two Flash Players in their own functions (not found now). What remains in the impression is the difference in touch characteristics. It seems to be blocked in normal Flash. Some of the features have been added. As the naked eye looks, this Flash Player renders interface elements larger than normal Flash.

In addition to the differences in Flash's own features, this Flash also shows some special features in terms of installation, uninstallation and update:

1. This Flash with Windows The installation of 8 is innate, the uninstaller is not found in the control panel, but you can see its icon for configuration:

2. This Flash Player is on the desktop version. Unlimited use in 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 a simple "pre-installed" concept, Therefore, it is only natural that Microsoft is responsible for its updates and patches through Windows Update, 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 is. Open the Task Manager and you will find the process named FlashUtil_ActiveX.exe, which is the active process of the Flash Player plugin that comes with Win8 IE10. Its file location is located in %SystemRoot%\\System32\\Macromed\\Flash:

To manage the disable and enable of this Flash Player, we still use IE browser Add-on management tool to complete:

If there is a problem with this special Flash Player, naturally you can't reinstall it by downloading the Flash installer. The correct reloading method should be to reinstall IE10. To disable IE10 functionality by enabling "enable or disable Windows functionality" in appwiz.cpl, 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.