How Do I Uninstall Flash Player v. 9.0.124.0?

[tb75252]

I am using Windows 7 Home Premium, 64-bit.

Secunia PSI shows that I have two versions of Flash Player installed:  11.6.602.171 (NAPI) and 9.0.124.0 (ActiveX).

I have been trying to delete v. 9.0.124.0 because it is an old, unsecure version but have not been successful.  I used the Uninstall Flash Player utility available at:

http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/uninstall-flash-player-windows.html

and made sure to follow all the instructions shown in paragraph No. 3 of that link.  Then I re-installed v. 11.6.602.171.

As soon as I re-start my laptop, Secunia PSI shows that v. 9.0.124.0 is back.  (It is a file called Flash9t.ocx located in c:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash.  I have also tried to manually delete this file several times but it is re-created the next time I boot up!).

So... how do I get rid of v. 9.0.124.0?

[pwillener]

It appears that something on your system requires the Flash Player 9 ActiveX, and installs it during startup.

Can you examine your startup list (e.g. with CCleaner Tools Startup) if there is anything in there that would do such a thing?

[tb75252]

Yes, I was thinking the same way.  There must be something installed on my computer that causes FP 9 to come back time and again...

I did run CCleaner's Startup utilty.  There are many, many entries in each tab and I am no expert in this field.  I could capture the data in a text file and paste the results in the body of my next message.  Would you be interested in taking a look at it?

[tb75252 · Accepted solution]

I finally figured out how to solve the problem.

* I deleted the file (Flash9t.ocx located in c:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash)

* I performed a clean boot using these instructions:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929135 and discovered that the program that causes Flash Player 9 ActiveX to be re-created every time that I boot up is

   called ASUS Screen Saver Protector (AsScrPro.exe, v. 1.0.0.9), located in c:\Windows\.  Carefully follow the instructions in "How to determine what is causing the problem by clean boot".

* I downloaded Autoruns (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspx) and with that I unchecked the entry "ASUS Screen Saver Protector AsScrPro ASUS c:\windows\asscrpro.exe"

   so that it does not automatically load during startup anymore.

* I ran Secunia PSI and it confirmed that Flash Player 9 ActiveX is gone!

[pwillener]

Thank you for the feedback!  Sorry I missed your earlier post from last week.