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Thread ID: 59898	2005-07-16 04:21:00	Unable to update Windows Media Player after taking it back to 6	Ranger (8531)	Press F1

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372625	2005-07-16 04:21:00	Hi guys Need some help with my brother's computer. For a while he was happily running media player 9 then updated to media player 10 but it wouldn't work with 10. So he tried to roll back to media player 9 but kept getting roll back failure errors and any attempts at reinstalls of media player just failed. In the end I used used XPlite to remove media player from his system and used his Windows XP CD to make sure he had base line media player 6 installed which works fine. But when we tried to update from media player 6, we kept getting error messages saying his version of windows did not support the version updating to which is a crock as he has Windows XP and had happily been running higher versions of media player including 9 before this trouble started. Any ideas anyone? Format and reload not realy an option at this time due to capacity required for backup data. System is an older 900Mhz AMD, 256MB SD-RAM, 16bit sound card (sorry, can't remember what exactly) with Windows XP Pro. Cheers.	Ranger (8531)
372626	2005-07-16 04:29:00	at the moment all i can suggest is remove media player and IE, then reinstall IE (which includes media player). also you could do a repair install of windows. BTW how did you get mediaplayer 6 to install? didn't XP come with media player 8 ?	tweak'e (69)
372627	2005-07-16 07:41:00	try here www.oldversion.com all versions up to 10 are availabe here good luck	beama (111)
372628	2005-07-16 11:24:00	i would try uninstalling wmp 6 (maybe through add remove progs???) then download newest version from microsoft	CorbinH (37)
372629	2005-07-18 05:09:00	Thanks for the input guys. I will see what I find when I catch up with my brother tomorrow evening. Will let you know how we get on. Cheers.	Ranger (8531)
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