Install Adobe Flash - Without Administrator Rights

December 3rd, 2009 | by LocalTech |

It’s been awhile since I actually wrote something on here, but now that I’m back into my I.T roots, I guess I might as well give everyone a few tips and tricks every now and then just to keep the site alive.

Well I’ve recently joined a new company and their software policy is quite a pain. So the first thing I was trying to figure out how to do was to install Adobe Flash player on my PC. For some reason, the admins decided due to the company’s software licensing, they weren’t going to let us install ANY software on our own - not even flash player.

So after doing a bit of research I’ve found out a simple method of installing the flash player plug-in. Just follow these steps and you should be up and running.

1. Download the following file here.
2. Rename the file from flashplayer-win.xpi to flashplayer-win.zip
3. Extract the files to it’s current location using WinZIP or WinRAR.
4. Copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll to the following location:

  • Firefox: %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins\
  • Chrome: C:\Documents and Settings\Username\Local Settings\Application
    Data\Google\Chrome\Application\Plugins

    • * Note: If there is no Plugins folder, create it.

    Once you have done this, close Firefox/Chrome and restart it and Flash Player should be up and running.

    Good luck.
    LocalTech

    1. 2 Responses to “Install Adobe Flash - Without Administrator Rights”

    2. By niveen on Apr 1, 2010 | Reply

      I need to read a matrix from a file ,how?

    3. By computer troubleshooting on May 24, 2010 | Reply

      Useful technique to solve this problem while surfing internet in Cyber Cafe’s which don’t have Flash installed in their system.

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