re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP
Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 2:23 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Stu
(1 messages posted)
Wow! This worked a treat.
To prevent getting error messages about WMP being missing in XP you might try:
Go into: Add/Remove Programs
Click on: Add/Remove Windows Components
Uncheck Windows Media Player.
This should remove any file types associated with WMP.
Now, let’s tell other how to remove the stupidly annoying WMP 9.
Cheers all.
On Sunday, September 14, 2003 at 11:28 pm, Mike Hallagan wrote:
>In response to all of these threads:
>
>The stock Windows Media Player in XP (WMP8) cannot be uninstalled. It is integrated
>to the system, which I assume the first person posting was trying to do. But there
>is a way around this.
>
>First of all, if you would prefer to just use the classic windows media player 6.4,
>it is already installed in Windows XP along with WMP8. You can simply open the
WMP8
>options and uncheck all the associations with media files. Then after closing it,
>you can open 6.4 and recheck which file associations you would like to use in it.
> All icons double-clicked will open in 6.4 and you have to worry about 8 again unless
>you manually open WMP8, in which case it will automatically reassociate the extentions
>again. Otherwise, all you have to deal with are quite a few other WMP XP integrations
>that you cannot get rid of.
>
>If you would like to get rid of it completely, in association to the other threads
>about WMP9, you can download and install WMP9 for Windows XP, then after restarting,
>you can use the command previously posted:
>
>
>RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall
>
>
>Make sure you associate the extensions first to let windows determine the default
>media player as 6.4. Then when the uninstall takes place, it will rollback to 6.4
>instead of 8, and both 8 and 9 will dissappear. WMP 6.4 becomes the default XP
media
>player.
>
>Thanks to all others who posted, especially the uninstall string from Microsoft
Support,
>for helping everyone out with this.
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