Hi rlinhartpdx.
We had a similar issue in our production environment. We deploy Flash trough SCCM, but similar procedures should work for GPO environments also.
To tackle the issue of Error 1722 and 2753 I created a task sequence that ran the following:
Run the Flash Player Uninstaller
* uninstall_flash_player.exe -uninstall
Run a cleanup CMD script
* cmd.exe /c CleanUp.cmd
The CMD Script, CleanUp.cmd looks like this:
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@echo off
echo Commencing Flash cleanup > C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleaning 00AB3E66D3B6B66469AF36907A4FB20B >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\00AB3E66D3B6B66469AF36907A4FB20B /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\00AB3E66D3B6B66469AF36907A4FB20B /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\00AB3E66D3B6B66469AF36907A4FB20BI nstaller\Products\ /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\00AB3E66D3B6B6 6469AF36907A4FB20B /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleaning C460100B160DEAB4091314A638D85563 >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\C460100B160DEAB4091314A638D85563 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\C460100B160DEAB4091314A638D85563 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\C460100B160DEA B4091314A638D85563 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\C460100B160DEA B4091314A638D85563 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleaning FE188D887650A344A9485EAAFE92BB43 >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\FE188D887650A344A9485EAAFE92BB43 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\FE188D887650A344A9485EAAFE92BB43 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\FE188D887650A3 44A9485EAAFE92BB43 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\FE188D887650A3 44A9485EAAFE92BB43 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleaning 5E5CA04FBA55A964ABB838C90E413608 >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\5E5CA04FBA55A964ABB838C90E413608 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\5E5CA04FBA55A964ABB838C90E413608 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\5E5CA04FBA55A9 64ABB838C90E413608 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\5E5CA04FBA55A9 64ABB838C90E413608 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleaning D90E84CDF5E493049BA3CFDE63FEEB55 >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Products\D90E84CDF5E493049BA3CFDE63FEEB55 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Installer\Features\D90E84CDF5E493049BA3CFDE63FEEB55 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Products\D90E84CDF5E493 049BA3CFDE63FEEB55 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Installer\Features\D90E84CDF5E493 049BA3CFDE63FEEB55 /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleaning SafeVersions tree
reg.exe DELETE HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Macromedia\FlashPlayer\SafeVersions /f >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo. >> C:\FlashClean.log
echo Cleanup completed >> C:\FlashClean.log
exit 0
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Please note: This script was made to clean up 5 specific flash installations, each noted by their product codes. For instance, the latest version of flash (11.3.300.257) has D90E84CDF5E493049BA3CFDE63FEEB55
The script has no call back on errors, other than the FLashClean.log on C:. It will always be successful due to Exit 0.
Hope this helps!
