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Installing Flash Player without admin permissions

Today at school, we came to the discovery that the netops removed Flash from our computers.
The school pc's are so restricted that they don't allow us to install programs ourselves.

Luckily there's still Firefox :)

  1. Download the XPI of the Flash Player plugin. An XPI is generally a plugin for firefox which is in fact a ZIP archive.
  2. (Rename to .zip if you want and) extract the files in the XPI.
  3. Go to Start » Run » enter "%APPDATA%" » OK
  4. Navigate to Mozilla\Plugins\, if this directory doesn't exist, create it.
  5. Copy flashplayer.xpt and NPSWF32.dll from the extraced files to %APPDATA%\Mozilla\Plugins.
  6. Restart Firefox and watch your flash movies :)

Thanks to Varesano.net.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 at 4:09 pm and is filed under Computers, Scripts. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

8 Responses to “Installing Flash Player without admin permissions”

  1. steesiasmuri says:
    October 6, 2008 at 4:34 am

    thanks much, dude

  2. Jonas says:
    October 14, 2008 at 10:22 am

    Thanks mate! Really good solution!

    Peace Out! =)

  3. liz says:
    November 10, 2008 at 12:48 pm

    You star, this is a perfect solution, thanks so much!

  4. Jonathan says:
    November 14, 2008 at 6:41 am

    oh man it doesn't work because when i click on the link "XPI of the Flash Player plugin" on this page it trys to install and it doesn't work

  5. ce3c says:
    November 14, 2008 at 6:40 pm

    Instead of leftclicking on the link,
    you should save the file (rightclick>save as..)

  6. Martin says:
    January 17, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Great piece of advice, cheers!

  7. Vibius says:
    June 12, 2009 at 1:43 am

    Worked!

    Firefox seems to think for a second before it loads a page with flash on it (I know this is normal, but its a lot slower on this PC than my slower home PC)

  8. Andelia says:
    March 10, 2010 at 11:54 am

    Hi.I like reading your post , keep doing it.

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