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This worked on XP Professional
Thursday, August 21, 2003 at 4:37 am
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Posted by Bill V (4 messages posted)


OK, finally got it uninstalled. Instructions by Steveo did not work for me on XP - at first I thought they did - dialog boxes popped up saying I had successfully rolled back to previously installed version of Media Player, but it wasn't there, and it couldn't be re-installed. What worked was what Microsoft recommended (puzzling, but true): Open Help and Support, search for System Restore, and select "Run the System Restore Wizard". Select "Restore my computer to an earlier time" and click 'next'. Look for the restore point "Installed Windows Media Player 9 Series", select it and click next. Follow few simple steps from there.


On Friday, June 27, 2003 at 11:58 am, Fredrik Blomberg wrote:
>Hi
>
>How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? I made the mistake and installed
>Windows Media Player 9 on my computer not knowing it is XP optimized. In other words,
>i dont work well...crap...
>
>I want to install Windows Media Player 7 again but first i have to get rid of this
>crap first....
>
>Please help me!
>
>


Written in response to:
How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Fredrik Blomberg: Friday, June 27, 2003 at 11:58 am)

Responses to this message:
*re: This worked on XP Professional (Bill V: Thursday, August 21, 2003 at 4:55 am)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Fredrik Blomberg: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 11:58 am)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (jbs: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 12:57 pm)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (T Lim: Wed, Jul 9, 2003, 7:19 pm)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Steveo: Fri, Aug 1, 2003, 4:16 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (LeAnne Weber: Sat, Aug 7, 2004, 5:46 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (alfred gibson: Thu, Jul 17, 2003, 12:20 am)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Steve: Fri, Jun 27, 2003, 12:57 pm)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Frank: Thu, Jul 24, 2003, 1:40 pm)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Soledad: Fri, Aug 1, 2003, 5:58 am)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (aut0mat0n: Fri, Aug 1, 2003, 1:31 pm)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Simon: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 7:01 am)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Dustin: Sun, Aug 17, 2003, 3:49 am)
-re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Bill V: Wed, Aug 20, 2003, 10:45 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Bill V: Thu, Aug 21, 2003, 4:13 am)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (sandy: Thu, Nov 18, 2004, 8:13 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (JP Paz Soldan: Thu, Oct 23, 2003, 7:12 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Zach: Thu, Aug 21, 2003, 11:37 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Thomas Norrman: Sun, Aug 17, 2003, 12:19 pm)
-This worked on XP Professional (Bill V: Thu, Aug 21, 2003, 4:37 am)
-re: This worked on XP Professional (Bill V: Thu, Aug 21, 2003, 4:55 am)
*re: This worked on XP Professional (Zach: Thu, Aug 21, 2003, 11:41 pm)
*re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (rebootd: Tue, Sep 23, 2003, 5:43 pm)
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