How to remove pre-installed Flash Player in Windows 8?

Question

Windows 8 comes with Flash Player pre-installed. How do I remove it? It does not appear in "Programs and Features".

Solution

Officially this is not supported.

Make a complete Windows Image (recImgexe) first and download the tool win6x_registry_tweak. Now open a cmd prompt with admin rights, in the folder where you stored the Exe, and run this command

install_wim_tweak.exe /o /c Adobe-Flash-For-Windows-Package /r 

This kills the Flash package. After a reboot it is gone.

Comments

[Indrek]

Try the Flash Player uninstaller from helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/…

[Kaveh]

This tools uninstall ONLY flash player for Firefox, chrome, Opera , Safari and ....

[jww]

@Kaveh - Adobe software is a collection of insecure junk. I don't allow Adobe products on my network. Its December, 2016. Adobe's garbage is still catching security vulnerabilities, and Microsoft still does not provide a way to remove the junk. Why do users have to suffer security bugs like KB 3209498 when they don't want the sh**t in the first place. It should be illegal for Microsoft to claim any of their OSes are secure when their image ships with the Adobe junk.

[Dave]

Can I assume then there is no "out of the box" way of just removing it?

[magicandre1981]

@Ramhound if you have no idea, don't reply. This works fine in Windows 8. I've used it to kill Flash and Defender. And yes, Dave MSFT doesn't include an official way, that's why I wrote it is unsupported ;) To customize your Windows, MSFT wants you to buy "Windows Embedded".