re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 3:42 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Catdaddybn (2 messages posted) You can do this "swapping .exe files" and it will open the older version of Media Player (maybe 7.1) but MS was smart enough to make sure that none of the files associated with that media player and you get an error. But if you just want to beat the system this will work... On Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 12:21 pm, Thams wrote: >My conclusion has been to remove WMP from the Add/Remove Programs menu (I think that >requires SP1) and then renaming wmplayer.exe -> wmplayer2.exe in the Program Files >-> Windows Media Player directory and renaming mplayer2.exe -> wmplayer.exe... so >now I use the old Media Player 6.5 which seems to work 10 times better than WMP9!! > > Written in response to: re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Thams: Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 12:21 pm) Responses to this message: re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Thams: Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 8:10 am) re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (s!Lv3|2: Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 2:49 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Pierre: Thu, Jan 3, 2002, 6:47 am) re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Jeff: Thu, Jan 3, 2002, 7:43 pm) re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Pierre: Fri, Jan 4, 2002, 7:32 am) re: Uninstall 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