re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP
Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by David Abraham
(1 messages posted)
Wow, this thread has stayed alive for a long time. I'm not sure if people are still
looking for answers to get rid of WMP 11.
I, in my utter frustration to remove this must've done something right. You could
follow the steps below at your own risk to remove windows media player 11 and reinstall
version 9. Please read ALL steps below first before you attempt anything! I provide
no guarantees if something goes wrong at your end:
1) If you choose to install an older version of WMP, download a copy of the installer
to a key.
2) Install ccleaner on your computer (please google for it if you can't find it).
If you're unable to find/install ccleaner please do not continue any further.
3) Restart your computer in safe mode.
4) Dump the contents of %windir%\system32\dllcache into a seperate folder (preferably
NOT inside the dllcache folder; I created a system32\dllcache.old folder). I'm not
sure if this step is needed but it hasn't harmed me in anyway. I restored the contents
when I was done and everything went well.
5) Using Windows Explorer, find all files in your hard drive that begin with "wmp*"
(minus the quotes). Delete all the files after making sure they don't belong to any
other 3rd part application (You could move these files into a seperate folder if
you're worried about a system crash). All the files I found were under "Windows"
and "Program Files\Windows media player" folders.
6) Delete all files from \Program Files\Windows Media Player.
7) Run CCleaner and fix your registry (please make a backup when CCleaner asks you
to!).
8) Restart your computer in safe mode.
9) Run the installer (from step 1) of the older WMP. I did see it mention a screen
that had a caption of WMP 11 but it didn't really affect the installation process.
10) Restart computer in normal mode and voila! you should have your old version of
WMP back.
11) If you wish to restore your copy of dllcache, you will have to restart in safe
mode and transfer the files over to the original folder.
If you're too worried about bricking your system, please do not try this. I will
not be able to support any of the issues you might run into.
G'luck!
On Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 2:49 am, manish wrote:
>im not able to find \winnt\inf\sysoc.inf on my computer, i did search but it turned
>up blank...help
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