re: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? Tuesday, September 23, 2003 at 5:43 pm Windows Me Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by rebootd (118 messages posted) You can also do this: Open the file C:\Windows\inf\sysoc.inf (assuming C: is the drive Windows XP is installed on) in Notepad. The list will look similar to this: [Components] NtComponents=ntoc.dll,NtOcSetupProc,,4 WBEM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wbemoc.inf,,7 Display=desk.cpl,DisplayOcSetupProc,,7 Fax=fxsocm.dll,FaxOcmSetupProc,fxsocm.inf,,7 NetOC=netoc.dll,NetOcSetupProc,netoc.inf,,7 iis=iis.dll,OcEntry,iis.inf,,7 com=comsetup.dll,OcEntry,comnt5.inf,,7 dtc=msdtcstp.dll,OcEntry,dtcnt5.inf,,7 IndexSrv_System = setupqry.dll,IndexSrv,setupqry.inf,,7 TerminalServer=TsOc.dll, HydraOc, TsOc.inf,,2 ims=imsinsnt.dll,OcEntry,ims.inf,,7 fp_extensions=fp40ext.dll,FrontPage4Extensions,fp40ext.inf,,7 AutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,au.inf,,7 msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7 WMAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wmaccess.inf,,7 RootAutoUpdate=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,rootau.inf,,7 IEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,ieaccess.inf,,7 OEAccess=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,oeaccess.inf,,7 WMPOCM=ocgen.dll,OcEntry,wmpocm.inf,,7 This lists all the components installed. I believe if you edit the msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 line, you will be able to see the Media Player option in Add/Remove Programs > Windows Components list and will now have the option to uncheck it, which will keep it from bothering you. Where you see the word 'hide' - this is the string that tells Windows not to display the component Delete the word 'hide': msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,hide,7 and change to this: msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7 Restart and you should be able to see these in Windows Components so you can uncheck them now. It was a long time ago when I did this, but I think I remember taking out 'hide' from a lot of things just to see what I could see afterwards. HTH. Written in response to: How do i uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series? (Fredrik Blomberg: Friday, June 27, 2003 at 11:58 am) There are presently no replies to this message. 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) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Me Discussion Forum