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!!
>
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