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| Thread ID: 38310 | 2003-10-03 09:27:00 | Win Media Player 9 problem | pcamford (4679) | Press F1 |
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| 180157 | 2003-10-03 09:27:00 | Hi all, I am having a problem with Win Media Player 9 that seems to have become corrupt. When I try to use it it brings up a error message that it wants to send to Microsoft.However this gives me no clue as to what the problem is. Having sent this or closing it down WMP 9 just closes on me. I have other programs that can play the media WMP 9 plays so this would not be to much of a concern except that I also have Microsoft Encarta. This seems to tie into WMP 9 so now I cant play any audio or video from this. My desire is to uninstall the player and start over. however Microsoft in its "Why does nobody like us" wisdom has not a uninstall optiion for XP ! I believe it is possable to use a "hack" to uninstall the program but I am keen to hear any ideas PC World readers have Thanks Paul |
pcamford (4679) | ||
| 180158 | 2003-10-03 11:51:00 | MS suggest doing a system restore to remove it. It has also been suggested that you can uninstall it while in safe mode but can't confirm this. If you want a product from Microsoft that doesn't suck wait for the day they make vacuum cleaners. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 180159 | 2003-10-03 13:02:00 | You CAN uninstall WMP 9. I have, by following the details here: www.tweakxp.com the command, in start / run / command, is RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall or RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\WINDOWS\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall J. |
Jester (13) | ||
| 180160 | 2003-10-03 15:04:00 | > You CAN uninstall WMP 9. I have, by following the > details here: > > www.tweakxp.com > > the command, in start / run / command, is > > RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection > %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall > > or > > RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection > C:\WINDOWS\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall hmmm, i;m beginning to see a similarity in some commands that remove Win Progs that Microsoft say can't be removed........... |
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