I have been battling to get this working, properly when deployed on a Windows 2003 SP2 or above server.
Earlier this afternoon I found this article buried in the Adobe forum, guess what, it works! Much to my amazement.
One for the ‘note-to-self’ category
- Download the latest Flash uninstaller on this page, and place it somewhere on your hard disk (C:\Temp is a good place)
- Open a command prompt, navigate to the folder where you placed the uninstaller and run it with the “/clean” option, like this: “uninstall_flash_player.exe /clean” (without quotes – thanks Adobe for so clearly documenting any command line options for this tool…NOT !)
- Click the Details button. If it lists any files as “Delete on reboot”, then reboot now. Otherwise, just carry on.
- Download the EXE installation package from here
- Use the Control Panel Add/Remove programs method to install it. This ensures that the Windows install notification API triggers correctly (as opposed to executing change user /install in a command prompt).
- Use regedit and find the following key: HKCR\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000} (on 64-bit Windows this one is located under HKCR\Wow6432Node\CLSID\{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000})
- Remove any permissions for the Everyone group. click Advanced and tick the box to propagate the permissions to all child objects.
- Add the Everyone group and give it “Read” permissions on the key. Again, click the Advanced button and propagate the permissions to all child objects.
- Repeat steps 6 to 8 on the subsequent key, called HKCR\CLSID\{D27CDB70-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}
Works like a charm, now I have TS server that is grinding to a halt with all the Flash and Shockwave content running. Bah.



Bless you! This worked like a charm after much head scratching.
Thanks