Does a user need admin rights to install Flash player? Ask Question. Up vote 3 down vote favorite. I just managed to get it working for a Mac OS X without admin rights. Download the installer from Adobe and make sure to save it somewhere, rather than letting it automatically open. Unzip the installation archive and you should end up with. Installing Flash Player Plugin on Firefox without having Administrator Access or Premissions. Hp 1020 Printer Drivers For Windows 8. This is how I managed to install it without administrator permissions. Thanks so much for finding a way of installing flash without admin rights - you are a lifesaver!

Honestly, for Flash, it shouldn't matter much. Flash is just an ActiveX control. Once they are loaded on the server, so long as it is a signed control and there's nothing preventing the users from running activeX, it should load. In the LONG days of yore, you could update your version of flash by finding the.ocx (which bizarrely is one of the few that gets installed in%windir%, I believe under system32) and swapping it out. Nothing drives me more crazy than watching Adobe's website insist on first downloading and installing the Adobe Download Manager to then install Flash. Also, why on FSM's green earth would you put Flash on a terminal server? Do you have an actual business case for it?

Does it not run like shit as well? I know that Citrix accelerates it via some plugin, but we don't even do Flash on our Citrix servers.

Mostly because the users have no legit reason for it at work. Honestly, for Flash, it shouldn't matter much. Flash is just an ActiveX control.

Once they are loaded on the server, so long as it is a signed control and there's nothing preventing the users from running activeX, it should load. In the LONG days of yore, you could update your version of flash by finding the.ocx (which bizarrely is one of the few that gets installed in%windir%, I believe under system32) and swapping it out. Nothing drives me more crazy than watching Adobe's website insist on first downloading and installing the Adobe Download Manager to then install Flash. Also, why on FSM's green earth would you put Flash on a terminal server?

Do you have an actual business case for it? Does it not run like shit as well?

I know that Citrix accelerates it via some plugin, but we don't even do Flash on our Citrix servers. Mostly because the users have no legit reason for it at work. I know our OBIEE servers use flash for interactive charts, though we're actually going to change this because they want to ipad enable the site and nobody really uses the interactive charts to any real extent. Another one is our annual employee ethics training is done in flash. Honestly, for Flash, it shouldn't matter much. Flash is just an ActiveX control.

Once they are loaded on the server, so long as it is a signed control and there's nothing preventing the users from running activeX, it should load. In the LONG days of yore, you could update your version of flash by finding the.ocx (which bizarrely is one of the few that gets installed in%windir%, I believe under system32) and swapping it out. Nothing drives me more crazy than watching Adobe's website insist on first downloading and installing the Adobe Download Manager to then install Flash. Also, why on FSM's green earth would you put Flash on a terminal server? Do you have an actual business case for it? Does it not run like shit as well? I know that Citrix accelerates it via some plugin, but we don't even do Flash on our Citrix servers.

Mostly because the users have no legit reason for it at work. Somehow we wound up using Adobe Connect for training videos, so we need Flash on our PC's and Citrix Servers. As for the Adobe DLM, I signed up for their and just download the MSI's and EXEs from the url you cannot give away when they drop a new version. We distribute the MSI's but keep the exe around for machines where the user somehow managed to break the install by powering off in the middle of it; when that happens the MSI won't work anymore and we have to install with the exe. Operation Flashpoint Resistance Download. Weird, but for 5 or 10 out of a couple thousand I can spare 4MB of disk space for it. But for the OP, not sure about TS, but I know it won't install at all if there's any instances of IE running.