How to Fix Flash OCX Error by uninstalling Flash player

OCX Errors, Windows Application Errors, Windows Errors

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Flash player are one of the indispensable item in the internet these days. Every internet user has to use a flash file atleast once in his lifetime. You might have seen some of those interactive ads on the web pages with sounds, those are the flash files that I am talking about and most of you reading this already know that! The macromedia flash player is embedded onto to the webpage for the flash item to work. They do that with the aid of activex controls. These players and the embedding technology also have some errors that you might have to face it sometimes or more depending on the complexity of the flash item!  Those errors are called the Flash OCX Errors! Most people uninstall the flash player to get rid of these errors. However the macromedia, the makers of the flash player are aware of every problems and fixing it. Therefore you must not just uninstall but also reinstall the new version and upgrade that as often as you want. But the immediate solution to get rid of OCX errors is to uninstall flash player!

The older version of the Activex Flash player has to be removed completely and in an order. You can manually uninstall it or use and automatic uninstaller. Let’s go through the manual removal process in detail here. This is a complete uninstall, not just the one that you do from the start/remove programs from the control panel.

1. The first step is to close all the running internet browsers.
2. Find flash.ocx using the windows search from the start menu.
3. Note down its file path. Ex. C:\windows\
4. Click on Start button > Type “regsvr32 filepath\flash.ocx /u (the file path is what you noted down in the step 3) Enter ok. Ok again at the confirmation prompt window. (if you haven’t entered the file path correctly, you get an error message! )
5. Now you have unregistered the flash activex program! Now search and delete the flash items that you don’t want!

Now let’s quickly go through the automatic uninstall process:

1. Download the flash uninstaller http://download.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/current/uninstall_flash_player.exe
2. Close all the running browsers and run it!

That is designed to automatically remove the flash component from your computer! This is a temporary solution for the Flash OCX errors! Now before installing the new version, I recommend you to clean your registry with a registry cleaner (see free scan below!). After running and fixing all the registry errors you can now be assured that you completely cleaned your registry of unwanted and invalid entries.

But it’s not sure that the newer version of the flash player will not give any OCX errors, so it’s recommended that you invest in a registry cleaner and resolve activex flash OCX errors completely!