The file flashutil10a.exe, known as Adobe Flash Player Helper, belongs to software Adobe Flash Player by Adobe Systems. Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing Rich Internet Applications, multimedia, and streaming video and audio on a computer Web browser. It runs directly on an operating system for regular users and content developers, and can also run from a Web browser as a browser plugin, or in supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex, or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools. It supports 3D graphics, raster and vector graphics, and streaming of audio and video. It can natively decode and playback multimedia formats such as FLV, MP3, JPEG, GIF and PNG, and streaming protocols that include TCP, RTMP, and HTTP. The current versions of Adobe Flash Player are optimized to use hardware acceleration for video playback and 3D graphics rendering on many devices, including desktop computers.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. flashutil10a.exe. is used by Adobe Flash Player, If you shut down flashutil10a.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop flashutil10a.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Adobe Flash Player, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed flashutil10a.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Adobe Flash Player, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if flashutil10a.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that flashutil10a.exe, belongs to, in this case Adobe Flash Player