Flash Impossible To Remove?

edit: Finally got it! I think. Hopefully I did. I done a search for the partial file name and it found some more Macromedia files. Which I quickly deleted. Now it seems like Flash is no longer loading on Macromedia’s or others’ web sites. ::crosses fingers::

This evening I am trying very hard to get rid of Macromedia Flash Player version 8. I’ve used the Add/Remove uninstaller, I’ve manually deleted files from all over the system, and I’ve downloaded (and ran) “official” uninstallers for both Shockwave and Flash directly from Macromedia.

I’ve also cleared the cache from my browser.

Yet Flash continues to play! I can’t get rid of it!

This is terribly annoying. Is there a program out there to rip Flash & Shockwave out of the system? Something similar to Driver Cleaner Pro, perhaps.

It must be squished!

Why? The audio has stopped playing in embedded Flash. That means that YouTube, Google Video, and various animated online comics no longer produce sound on my system. This happened after my Audigy 2 NX died and I began using my mobo’s integrated audio. My original intention was to remove the software so that I could cleanly reinstall it in hopes that the audio problem would be fixed. Then I noticed that it wasn’t getting uninstalled.

However, the more that it fights against being removed from my system the more that I want to rip it out! No program has the right to forcefully remain on my computer, I don’t care what it does or who makes it.

In short, it’s really starting to annoy me.

~Steph