Introduction to the Flash Player that comes with Windows 8 system Internet Explorer 10

Windows 8 comes with a Flash player for Internet Explorer 10, which I believe is something you've noticed. However, this comes with a "special" Flash Player.

This own Flash player, a touch-optimized flash Player developed by Microsoft in collaboration with Adobe, is indeed different from the Flash player downloaded from the Adobe website. I remember reading an article a long time ago, which shows that the two flash Player in their own function of the difference (now can not find), the impression is still left is some of the touch characteristics of the different, as if blocking the normal Flash in some of the features and added some. Meat watching, this Flash Player presents an interface element larger than the normal flash.

In addition to the differences in the features of Flash itself, this flash also shows some peculiarities in installing uninstall and updating:

1. This Flash with the installation of Windows 8, the uninstall program is not found in the Control Panel, but you can see its configuration for the icon:

2. This flash Player is unrestricted in the desktop version of IE10, and in the Metro version of IE10, only sites that exist in the compatibility whitelist can use Flash to render content.

3. The update for this Flash Player was pushed by Windows update:

Since Win8 has built-in Flash Player and is not a simple "preinstalled" concept, Microsoft is responsible for updating and patching through Windows update, which facilitates the push of users, enterprise IT administrators, and security patches. However, from this level of cooperation is conceivable, Microsoft has obtained the Flash Player source code, and confirm that the source code should be considered good.

Let's take a look at where this particular Flash is. Open Task Manager to discover a process named Flashutil_activex.exe, which is the active process for Win8 IE10 's own Flash player plug-in. Its file location is located in%systemroot%system32macromedflash:

To manage the disabling and enabling of this Flash Player, we still do this through the IE browser add-on management tool:

If there is a problem with this particular flash Player, it is natural that you cannot download the Flash installer to reinstall it, and the correct reinstallation should be to reload the IE10 browser by turning off the IE10 feature in appwiz.cpl with "Enable or disable Windows features" in the Enable it. If that doesn't work, you'll need to run dism/online/cleanup-image/restorehealth and even the Sfc/scannnow command to detect and repair problems in Windows 8 system components and system files.

For Windows server 2012,ie, there is no Flash Player installed by default, and some users try to download and install Flash Player, but the reason is that the Server 2012 also has this special flash Pl built in. Ayer, but is not enabled by default. So, to access Flash content using the IE10 browser on Server 2012, you can only enable the built-in flash Player by installing the user Interfaces and Infrastructure (UI and infrastructure)-Deskt Op Experience (Desktop Experience) feature.