re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 4:59 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Rhonda Smith (2 messages posted) I downloaded/installed Windows XP SP2 last wk. My PC doesn't have WMP, but another one does. I deleted client id entries from HKey_Current_User\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayr\Player\settings & HKey_Uers\.default\software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\settings. I added "=off" to [Optional Components] section in c:\windows\inf\wmpocm.inf and wmaccess.inf. I removed the "hide" from the c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf. However, when I goto c:\program files\windows media player to delete files, the executables and dll's duplicate themselves and reappear. I even tried with DOS commands del and erase with -f option. I did find c:\windows\inf\mplayer2.inf that shows the following section: [WMPDelay.Actions] HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer","BlockUninstall",,"yes" If I remove the "BlockUninstall", will I be able to delete Windows Media Player folder and files? What does the "yes" mean? TYIA. RAS On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:43 pm, Jeff wrote: >Here you go, >Uninstall unwanted components >Thanx to: Microsoft Expert Zone - Michel Bordeleau >It seems that some components in Windows XP can't be uninstalled. Well... they can. >Use this trick to uninstall MSN Messenger, Media Player, MSN Explorer and Microsoft >Games. > >First, make a copy of sysoc.inf (found on the hard disk at \winnt\inf\sysoc.inf) >before proceeding so that you can restore the initial configuration if necessary. >Give the copy a different name, such as sysoc2.inf. > >Open the Sysoc.inf file. Each line of text in the file represents a component that >can be displayed in the Add/Remove Windows Components dialog. > >Delete the word HIDE for any component that you want to see in the dialog (do not >erase the commas). > >Save the Sysoc.inf file, then close it, and reboot your computer. > >The Add/Remove Windows Components dialog will now display the items you want. > Written in response to: re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Jeff: Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:43 pm) Responses to this message: re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP (Robert: Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 5:53 am) 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 Windows Media Player from XP (Hellmut Golde: Thu, Jan 9, 2003, 5:52 pm) re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 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