February 2021.
This is a continuation of this thread which was originally to discuss the use of Flash, Shockwave, and Java on Windows XP.
Flash and Shockwave are now discontinued by Adobe, and the former has been disabled in current browser systems.
Current Java 8 versions are no longer compatible with XP, and many later older versions which will run on XP have to be installed manually as the installer is incompatible.
This thread is to discuss the problems of keeping these technologies alive on XP systems.
For the replay of .SWF files, the standalone "projector" Flash player is still available from Adobe -
https://www.adobe.com/support/flashplayer/debug_downloads.html#fp10
Wayback Machine archived Flash links
Archive of all Flash versions -
https://web.archive.org/web/20200630185339/https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/archived-flash-player-versions.html
Flash 32.0.0.371 archive (the last version without the January 2021 disabling time-bomb) -
https://web.archive.org/web/20200630185943/https://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/flashplayer/installers/archive/fp_32.0.0.371_archive.zip
This compressed archive contains all versions of 32.0.0.371, and is a 387 MB file.
Java Links
Java 8 Update 151 is the last that will install on Windows XP without any modification work -
https://www.filepuma.com/download/java_runtime_environment_32bit_8.0.1510.12-16905/
The last version which works (but does not install) on XP without any file substitutions is Java 8 Update 241 -
https://javadl.oracle.com/webapps/download/GetFile/1.8.0_241-b07/1f5b5a70bf22433b84d0e960903adac8/windows-i586/jre-8u241-windows-i586.tar.gz
If Java is not already on the system, Update 151 will need to be installed first using its installer.
Then the files from Update 241 will need to be extracted from the compressed archive above, and the 152 files replaced with the 241 files, and the registry edited to reflect this, as detailed in the thread.