For security reason, do we have to uninstall old version of Flash Player ?

Hello,
I actually want to deploy the last version of Flash Player (plugin and activex) on my computer network.
After installing the latest version (v10.1), I have seen that my old .ocx files where deleted automatically from the folder "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash" but one file remains Flash10e.ocx (and I have the latest version too Flash10h.ocx).
In my logfile, I have this :
Delete ....
Delete: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil10.exe"
Delete: "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil10a.exe"
End Call Uninstallers
File: overwriteflag=4, allowskipfilesflag=2, name="Flash10e.ocx"
File: wrote 3981080 to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10e.ocx"
IfFileExists: file "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\Flash10e.ocx" exists, jumping 352
File: overwriteflag=4, allowskipfilesflag=2, name="FlashUtil10e.exe"
File: wrote 256280 to "C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil10e.exe"
End Main Section
Is is normal that I am still having the Flash10e.ocx ? Was it because my browser was opened during the silent installation of Flash ?
Thanks !

Hi,
thanks for your answer.
It's quite difficult to deploy the new version of Flash or 5000 computers with this method .
It's quite difficult to force users to close their browser each time I would like to update an Adobe product (moreover, not every users are online during the deployment etc...).
I have updated my Adobe Flash while IE was opened and it seems to work (except the fact that I have one another .ocx file that I dont want).
Thanks

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