OS Vista SP2 
WB Chrome 49.0.2623.112
FP 22.0.0.209
Pasted pepflashplayer.dll version 27.0.0.170 in C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\PepperFlash\22.0.0.209 and does not work, reverted back to pepflashplayer.dll 22.0.0.209 for the moment. 
Error message: Adobe Flash Player was blocked because it is out of date. Update plugin… Run this time 
I would like to eliminate the aforesaid error message which started October 18, 2017 because it’s very distracting to click Run this time on every page I visit requiring flash. 
What is the last stable pepflashplayer.dll version for Chrome 49.0.2623.112? 
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MKDan​ a user at the time of this post with 0 points here has posted in Problems with Flash Player - Chrome​​ Flash Player blocked in Chrome on Windows XP​​​ My computer is all kinds of screwed up... is my Flash problem solvable?​ over the span of about 1 week around the same time this Flash Player problem has started occurring, he hasn't posted anywhere else here, and does not suffer from the problem being reported on, coincidence?
MKDan wrote
I'm using Windows 8.
Windows 8 is 2 versions up from Windows Vista, the system with the error I'm reporting on, how is Windows 8 relevant here? 
MKDan wrote
My Chrome Version is 61.0.3163.100 (Official Build) and is up to date.
The last most current supported Chrome version for Vista is 49.0.2623.112, a 12 version gap from 61.0.3163.100, again how is this relevant to what is being reported here? 
MKDan wrote
My pepflashplayer.dll version is 27.0.0.170 and you can try it:- 27.0.0.170.rar
As I stated in my original post, I tried pepflashplayer.dll version 27.0.0.170 and it failed to work as others here have also reported, thus I reverted back to 22.0.0.209 for the time being. 
The problem with using the old pepflashplayer.dll version 22.0.0.209 is security concerns and of course the annoying info bar on every page I visit containing flash. 
MKDan wrote
So you can't update your Chrome by visiting the following URL? chrome://settings/help
MKDan wrote
Google has stopped support for XP and Vista.
I think you answered your own question? To be clear, no I cannot update beyond Chrome version 49.0.2623.112 unless Google suddenly decides to start supporting us again. 
MKDan wrote
Go to chrome://flags and disable HTML over flash.
Bad idea, sets users up for security issues, and this option is not available anymore so it's irrelevant. 
God willing an Adobe employee will reveal a version of Flash Player that will eliminate the annoying info bar, I realize I can mute the info bar with -disable-infobars command, however for security reasons I would much rather have a functioning up-to-date version of pepflashplayer.dll obviously. 
As of the time of this post, I would like to thank the 195 viewers and 4 users who suffer from the same issue as me for sharing my concern. 
Finally if you found my original post helpful, don't forget to follow, bookmark and click like to encourage a satisfactory solution, not a band aid reply like we've seen elsewhere.
God bless. 
MKDan wrote
Adobe planned to kill Flash by the year 2020.
That means we have over 2 years left to protect users who still depend on Flash Player.
MKDan wrote
Google also want content developers to use HTML 5. Maybe, they have started to kill Flash from the older operating systems and browsers.
Are you suggesting Google made unauthorized changes to my browser without my permission?
MKDan wrote
Not a answers to your question, you can try other browsers like Yandex, Firefox, Opera, Safari or IE.
Already have those, you're right this is not an answer to my question.
MKDan wrote
Soon websites will stop using Flash and also all the browsers will stop supporting Flash.
Last time I checked over 2 years is not considered soon for most people's standards.
I really hope Adobe isn't planning to leave us all unprotected between now and 2020 cause that is unacceptable.
To my knoweldge, Adobe didn't do anything to Flash Player for it not to work with older versions of Chrome, however, Flash Player only officially supports the latest version of any given browser. From Tech specs | Adobe Flash Player :
(my highlights for emphasis)
In reality, what folks with XP/Vista & Chrome 49 have been doing (installing the latest version of Flash Player, renaming the file and moving it to the Chrome FP location) is an unsupported hack. Even when doing this, Google still reports the older embedded version as the installed version. If you go to chrome://plugins it still reports the old embedded version, not the newly copied version. My guess is that this (Chrome reporting the old embedded version) is what's preventing the browser from loading the plugin. I would recommend contacting Google for assistance, but that would be moot since they no longer support Chrome on XP or Vista.
First off, I was not aware I had an old version of Flash Player in Google Chrome until I started getting the info bar notice on every page I visited containing Flash Player.
Yes I realize Google Chrome updates Flash Player automatically, however I assumed when I did a manual update of Flash Player, the Flash Player in Google Chrome would update as well, this is where the problem lies.
XP/Vista are not supported by Microsoft anymore, however I can still update my programs manually.
However with the Google Chrome platform, it appears you are saying Google is blocking me from updating my programs within the Google platform because they want to force me to do an update they made impossible on XP/Vista?
In other words, what you are saying is Google Chrome is blocking Adobe Flash Player users from receiving critical security updates even in manual mode?
Google refusing to support their own products is one thing however Google blocking users from manually supporting their own products is something else entirely.
Something serious needs to be done here and fast to give users back their basic security rights.
Even my copy of IE7 supports the latest version of Flash Player and I must say Google has gone too far this time.
It was XP/Vista users that made Google what it is today, I can’t believe they would do us all this way in the end.
Opera 12.18 is a maintenance update which came 2 years after end of support for Opera 12.17 and I believe Google can do a maintenance update for Chrome 49.0.2623.112 so our Flash Players will update since they are a billion dollar company and all, 1 developer could fix this usually in less than 1 hour instead of leaving millions of users at risk, end of story.
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