Does the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Update Force a Downgrade of the Flash Player?
June 3rd, 2008 by ryanstewart
Update: The answer is no, it doesn’t. Thanks to the commenters below.
Serge tipped me off to this blog post about Windows XP service pack 3 actually downgrading the version of Flash on the users computer to 8. So as I understand it if you have Flash Player 9 installed, XP SP3 will remove it and put Flash Player 8 in its place.
Can anyone confirm that? I don’t have an XP machine any more so I can’t test it, and all of the blogs I’ve looked at don’t have any mention of the Flash Player. If anyone else has tested it, let me know.
Posted in Flash Player
June 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm
I installed SP3 and I’m still at 9.0.115.0 (according to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/)
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Hi Ryan,
I believe that SP3 ships with 9.0.115, which has that Flash security bug in it… If you have patched 9.0.115 with 9.0.124 I think it reverts back to 9.0.115. But NOT player 8. Apparently 9.0.124 came out about 3 weeks before SP3 RTMed. There were a few new postings about it yesterday on the wires, although a quick google search is not showing them.
- Tom
June 3rd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
They have a very exhaustive discussion on the DSLReports forums : http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20576924-After-XP-SP3-Install-Check-Flash-Player-Version
I have XP SP3 and Astro stayed put.
June 3rd, 2008 at 5:20 pm
The answer is, “No, it does not.” I just installed SP3 and when I check, Adobe.com reports,”You have version 9,0,124,0 installed.”
June 3rd, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Awesome, thanks a ton for checking it out guys!
June 4th, 2008 at 5:43 am
[...] Apparently SP3 doesn’t downgrade the player. It’ll only install an older version 9.0.115 if you don’t have the latest 9.0.124 [...]
June 4th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Guilty until proven innocent – Microsoft.
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Scott Barnes
Rich Client Product Manager
Microsoft.