Does the Windows XP Service Pack 3 Update Force a Downgrade of the Flash Player?

Posted on by

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.

Related posts:

  1. Reminder: Flash Player Security Update in April – Prepare Your SWF
  2. Flash Player Patch Released Today – Go Update
  3. Flash Player 10 Beta Available
  4. The Linux Response to Flash Player 9 (They Love It)
  5. Running Flash Player 10 beta and Flash Player 9 Side By Side
  • http://work.j832.com Kevin Moore

    I installed SP3 and I’m still at 9.0.115.0 (according to http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/about/)

  • http://www.brightpointinc.com Tom Gonzalez

    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

  • http://quetwo.wordpress.com Nick Kwiatkowski

    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.

  • http://www.fsoft.com Gary Funk

    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.”

  • ryanstewart

    Awesome, thanks a ton for checking it out guys!

  • Pingback: GUYA.NET » Blog Archive » XP SP3 downgrade the Flash Player

  • http://blogs.msdn.com/msmossyblog Scott Barnes

    Guilty until proven innocent – Microsoft.

    -
    Scott Barnes
    Rich Client Product Manager
    Microsoft.