removing Windows Media Player 11?

[todd_k]

my friend has a fairly new laptop and wants to remove Windows Media Player 11 since MLB.com only supports up to WMP 10. He tried downloading WMP 10 and it says he already has a newer version on his PC. He never had WMP 10 so he can't just go into the Control Panel and rollback to the previous version. I fear that just deleting the WMP folder out of the Program Files folder would not help either since there has been a registry key that would still point to WMP 11.

Any solutions for this?

 

[Kayos]

Did you try removing the media player entirely (add/remove programs in control panel), then look up windows medi player 10, and download. I am sure there are a bunch of sites to download it from.

 

[todd_k]

WMP 11 doesn't show up in the Add/Remove Programs. You can only see it if you check the Check Updates box at the top and this only lets you roll back to a previous version. He doesn't have a previous version so he doesn't see WMP 11.

 

[olllllo]

If this player works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic

Then don't fight it.

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=82303&filename=mpc2kxp6490.zip

No install required. It's just an executable.

 

[todd_k]

If this player works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Player_Classic

Then don't fight it.

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=82303&filename=mpc2kxp6490.zip

No install required. It's just an executable.

Interesting. But can you use it for streaming audio/video?

 

[c.n.budz]

type regedit into the run window, you should be able to remove it from the registry that way. I've removed things that add/remove wouldn't let me remove. Not sure if it will work on an actual windows program though....

 

[todd_k]

I think I got it. I forgot to have him click on Add/Remove Windows Components on the left hand side of the Add/Remove Programs window. Of course, now he's not home so i can't get him to test this.

 

[Flyin' Lion]

Todd asks a lot of 'puter questions for his "friend".

 

[Blender]

I would suspect that WMP 11 is pretty well intergrated into the OS so don't just delete a folder or registry key. The best bet is to remove it from the components part of Add-Remove Programs but I am not even sure that it is actually removed with that function. I really hate the way MS has done that over the years and just wish I could buy the OS without that kind on integration.

 

[c.n.budz]

I would suspect that WMP 11 is pretty well intergrated into the OS so don't just delete a folder or registry key. The best bet is to remove it from the components part of Add-Remove Programs but I am not even sure that it is actually removed with that function. I really hate the way MS has done that over the years and just wish I could buy the OS without that kind on integration.

Unfortunately, I think Blender nailed it there. I don't think microsoft would set it up so you could delete a major part of their OS. Rotten monopolies......

Doesn't matter though, you could never pay me enough to use a Mac

 

[todd_k]

well I thought we were able to uninstall it. he used the add/remove Windows components section of the add/remove programs, he said it successfully uninstalled. He rebooted and when he tried to install WMP 10, he got the same error saying that a newer version was already installed. I told him to check C:\program files and the Windows Media Player was still there.

 

[todd_k]

Todd asks a lot of 'puter questions for his "friend".

Hey now. I can't upgrade to WMP 11, something about an unauthorized copy of Windows or something like that.....