Is there way to allow non administrators to install adobe flash? I'm have to constantly install adobe flash updates because our users do not have admin rights. I tried to publish the adobe flash msi file in group policy. However, when a non administrator tries to install this published app it says that you cannot install it because you don't have admin rights. I am able to get adobe flash to install as an assigned app via group policy but I don't want to do it this way. Thanks for your help.
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drock1978
8/22/2022 - Mon
John
Other than the way you have described, there is no way I know of to instal Flash Player without being adminstrator. I usually turn off updates to Flash so it doesn't come up in normal work.
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Merete
There is a small work around if you are up for it.
Swiff player is a stand alone flash player, give it to each of your users and they wont need to use adobe unless online. http://www.globfx.com/products/swfplayer/
or Applian FLV Player http://www.applian.com/flvplayer/
I have also noticed the frequent requests from Adobe for updates for it's flash player. Seem endless.
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i have not had time yet to look at these possible solutions but should have time this week.
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pallab_sonai, I followed the instructions from the ehow website on how to do this but I don't know how to download the archived Flash Player plugin from Adobe's website. I can download flash as an msi or exe but I cannot figure out how to download it as an archived (xpi) file. How do I do this?
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Priveledge authority works great for allow non administrators to install adobe flash updates if you are using windows xp. However, it does not work with Windows 7 because of the UAC I believe. Does anyone know of a way to modify the priveledge authority rules so that it will work with Windows 7? Thanks.
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