re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP
Saturday, July 9, 2005 at 5:51 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by edie
(2 messages posted)
Correction, the program is NOT ccleaner, it's eraser. From http://www.tolvanen.com/eraser/
On Saturday, July 9, 2005 at 4:49 pm, edie wrote:
>After searching the web all over the place for this, was trying to undo a screwed
>up install of wmp10 that refused to let me rollback or uninstall, I was able to
rollback
>to windows media player 9 with ccleaner, like someone upthread suggested.
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>Download and install ccleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com
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>Restart in safe mode.
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>After installing ccleaner, do a search for "wmp" in C:\Windows, make sure "search
>hidden files and folders" is checked in "more advanced options".
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>Right click and "erase" the files wmp.dll, wmp.ocx, wmpasf.dll, wmpcd.dll, wmpcore.dll,
>wmpdxm.dll, wmploc.dll, wmpshell.dll, wmpui.dll. You will get Windows file warnings,
>just click cancel and yes each time. 2 of these files may not delete and that's
fine.
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>Go to C:\Program Files and delete the windows media player folder.
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>Now try installing the older version of windows.
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>This will not uninstall windows media player 10 but it will let you install an older
>version of windows media player.
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