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re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 7:43 pm Posted by Jeff (7 messages posted) 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. On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, January 4, 2002 at 7:32 am Posted by Pierre (2 messages posted) it works, thanks you much 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. > > >On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, January 4, 2002 at 12:02 pm Posted by Mark (333 messages posted) 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. > > >On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help Or just Replace All ",hide" with "," (without the quotes). [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, June 28, 2002 at 9:18 am Posted by Weingro (1 messages posted) But I don´t find any sysoc.inf in my PC. My OS is a Windows XP profesional. Is posible to uninstall windows media player in it? Thanks 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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, September 28, 2002 at 8:17 am Posted by binder (1 messages posted) IN what do application do you open the sysoc file?? 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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 4:55 pm Posted by gary (18 messages posted) you can open ie right click open or use notepad. I have now noticed that after sp1 I cant find the file I am desperate to get rid of messenger ! On Saturday, September 28, 2002 at 8:17 am, binder wrote: >IN what do application do you open the sysoc file?? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, October 7, 2002 at 2:51 pm Posted by HpChronic (1 messages posted) check in the following folder c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\ cheers! On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 4:55 pm, gary wrote: >you can open ie right click open or use notepad. I have now noticed that after sp1 >I cant find the file I am desperate to get rid of messenger ! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, October 7, 2002 at 3:14 pm Posted by jumpa (1 messages posted) You need to make sure your system is showing all files: Control Panel/Folder Options/View/Show Hidden Files And Folders You'll now be able to find sysoc.inf On Monday, October 7, 2002 at 2:51 pm, HpChronic wrote: >check in the following folder c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\ > >cheers! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, October 7, 2002 at 9:08 pm Posted by helixia (3 messages posted) Ya, I tried that. I removed the ',hide' as described. But after restarting XP, still I couldn't find the Media Player in the Uninstall Program in Control Panel. And using windows component to uninstall MSN Messenger does not work too. On Monday, October 7, 2002 at 3:14 pm, jumpa wrote: >You need to make sure your system is showing all files: >Control Panel/Folder Options/View/Show Hidden Files And Folders >You'll now be able to find sysoc.inf > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 9:35 am Posted by MaxB (1 messages posted) Yes... Some people write suggestions that they didn't check out. You CANNOT uninstall Windows Media Player this way (or, actually, you can't in any other way but manually deleting files from Safe mode). You CAN uninstall Windows Messenger this way - you've probobly made a mistake when editing "c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf" file - line that starts with "msmsgs" inside section [Components] must look exactly like this (without quotes): "msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7". Save file - you don't have to restart your computer - in Control Panel open "Add or Remove Programs" applet, click on "Add/Remove Windows Components" and the last item in the listbox will be (of cource, if you've done all correctly) "Windows Messenger". Uncheck that item and click Next. That's all. On Monday, October 7, 2002 at 9:08 pm, helixia wrote: >Ya, I tried that. I removed the ',hide' as described. But after restarting XP, still >I couldn't find the Media Player in the Uninstall Program in Control Panel. > >And using windows component to uninstall MSN Messenger does not work too. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, October 18, 2002 at 10:36 am Posted by rick (17 messages posted) Agreed, I have found that using the add/remove windows components to remove windows media player beta 9 from an XP set-up will not work. It simply disengages the media player, the program itself remains on your hard drive. If you try to delete the folder, you cant. It will simply return. The only effective way I have found is to boot into safe mode and use a 3rd party software such as "eraser" to get rid it. Go to the url below this message and you will see how embedded beta 9 is into the XP system. Microsft should have provided an uninstall option for this piece of $hit! http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-957704.html On Tuesday, October 8, 2002 at 9:35 am, MaxB wrote: >Yes... Some people write suggestions that they didn't check out. You CANNOT uninstall >Windows Media Player this way (or, actually, you can't in any other way but manually >deleting files from Safe mode). > >You CAN uninstall Windows Messenger this way - you've probobly made a mistake when >editing "c:\windows\inf\sysoc.inf" file - line that starts with "msmsgs" inside section >[Components] must look exactly like this (without quotes): "msmsgs=msgrocm.dll,OcEntry,msmsgs.inf,,7". >Save file - you don't have to restart your computer - in Control Panel open "Add >or Remove Programs" applet, click on "Add/Remove Windows Components" and the last >item in the listbox will be (of cource, if you've done all correctly) "Windows Messenger". >Uncheck that item and click Next. That's all. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, October 18, 2002 at 9:54 pm Posted by Mad C1imber (1 messages posted) you need to go to the tool- folder options menu at the top of explorer, go to view, and set it so you see hidden and system files, and if you can't find it then, search for it and make sure the search is searching for hidden and sys files On Friday, June 28, 2002 at 9:18 am, Weingro wrote: > >But I don´t find any sysoc.inf in my PC. My OS is a Windows XP profesional. Is posible >to uninstall windows media player in it? >Thanks > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 5:23 am Posted by Black_Venom (2 messages posted) Hey, going into safemode allowed me to delete the files in the folder without them coming back, that's great. But now I can't install Mplayer7.1 because somewhere it's recorded that I've got Mplayer9 components installed, I have no idea where this is in the registroy or any files which may contain that information, anyone know? Microsoft's pretty smart, tricking us with Mplayer9 like this. But I'm sure all the kids out there who just play around with programming will be on top of microsoft, they always are. ;o) On Friday, October 18, 2002 at 10:36 am, Harpo wrote: >Agreed, I have found that using the add/remove windows components to remove windows >media player beta 9 from an XP set-up will not work. It simply disengages the media >player, the program itself >remains on your hard drive. If you try to delete the folder, you cant. It will simply >return. The only effective way I have found is to boot into safe mode and use a 3rd >party software such as "eraser" to get rid it. Go to the url below this message and >you will see how embedded beta 9 is into the XP system. Microsft should have provided >an uninstall option for this piece of $hit! > > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104-957704.html > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, October 20, 2002 at 1:22 pm Posted by Hello_Moto (11 messages posted) I don't know if these tips worked on some computers, but they didn't work on mine. I did everything listed on this page. I erased the word "hide" and removed WM Player from windows xp components. I also used Safe Mode to delete windows media player. Everything deletes, but the folder itself comes back after reboot. Then i downloaded the program ERASER from download.com. It can't delete the folder because theres nothing in it. so i reloaded WM player BETA. i tried ERASER again and it wouldn't work. So i went back to safe mode and deleted WM player again. Now i cant erase ERASER, not even in Safe Mode. Then i went to My Computer - Search and searched for The term WM Player.i deleted everything that showed up. Is there anything else i can do? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, October 21, 2002 at 9:38 am Posted by DoDoddR6 (1 messages posted) i've tried everything on this page as well, and nothing has worked yet. i hate wm player 9! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 10:02 pm Posted by Andy (1 messages posted) Please help me ... to uninstall WMP ... nothing working with tip how to uni$tall .......... On Monday, October 21, 2002 at 9:38 am, DoDoddR6 wrote: >i've tried everything on this page as well, and nothing has worked yet. > >i hate wm player 9! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, October 26, 2002 at 12:21 pm Posted by Thams (2 messages posted) 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!! On Tuesday, October 22, 2002 at 10:02 pm, Andy wrote: > >Please help me ... to uninstall WMP ... nothing working with tip how to uni$tall >.......... > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 3:42 am 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!! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 8:10 am Posted by Thams (2 messages posted) I don't get any errors by swapping the .exe files. All the file types that was formerly associated with WMP 9 is now associated with the older WMP. On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 3:42 am, Catdaddybn wrote: >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... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 1:22 pm Posted by Catdaddybn (2 messages posted) I got an invalid file format when trying to play a music file. My problem was that some online streaming sites don't yet support MP9 and it doesn't matter if that is the dominate application my box still tells the browser that MP9 is in charge so it won't let me play the video/audio files. On Sunday, December 8, 2002 at 8:10 am, Thams wrote: >I don't get any errors by swapping the .exe files. All the file types that was formerly >associated with WMP 9 is now associated with the older WMP. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 9:49 pm Posted by allen lin (1 messages posted) Hi, How and where do i copy sysoc.inf to???? I'm a novice to computer so please instruct me step by step. Thanks. 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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, January 6, 2003 at 1:38 am Posted by Derek (2 messages posted) Here's a fix that worked for me when others failed: http://messenger.jonathankay.com/allsteps.aspx?ID=7 On Sunday, January 5, 2003 at 9:49 pm, allen lin wrote: > >Hi, > How and where do i copy sysoc.inf to???? I'm a novice to computer so please >instruct me step by step. Thanks. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 5:52 pm Posted by Hellmut Golde (1 messages posted) I had a different experience. I do not have a folder "winnt" in my XP Professional system. I did find the file sysoc.inf in \Windows\inf and I deleted the "hide" in the entry for msmsgs (which I assume is the Windows Mesenger), but it had no results on the Add/Delete list after I rebooted. Also, I did not find an entry for Windows Media Player in sysoc.inf. So, I need some more information. Thanks. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 7:40 am Posted by j (2 messages posted) To uninstall WMP9, u must do a system restore. simply turn back time. This is how u remove WMP9, still working on the WMP8 part. Microsoft wants u to understand that if u want to get something away, u have to turn back the time in XP. On Monday, January 6, 2003 at 1:38 am, Derek wrote: >Here's a fix that worked for me when others failed: > >http://messenger.jonathankay.com/allsteps.aspx?ID=7 > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 7:48 am Posted by j (2 messages posted) I think if something is installed it must get uninstalled. I could be wrong u never know with microsoft. On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 7:40 am, j wrote: >To uninstall WMP9, u must do a system restore. >simply turn back time. >This is how u remove WMP9, still working on the WMP8 part. >Microsoft wants u to understand that if u want to get something away, u have to turn >back the time in XP. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, January 22, 2003 at 5:09 pm Posted by Me (1 messages posted) Ok..download tweak xp from the internet and it will unistall messenger...no mess required in the sysoc.inf file On Monday, October 7, 2002 at 2:51 pm, HpChronic wrote: >check in the following folder c:\windows\servicepackfiles\i386\ > >cheers! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, February 9, 2003 at 3:50 pm Posted by rodny (1 messages posted) hello there, i did that earier and i got rid of all that except WMP so what is the problem? thank you... On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, February 10, 2003 at 1:24 pm Posted by Mick (1 messages posted) I haven't tried this but, you could use your XP installation disk to do a system repair, this means of course, you will have to re-install any 3rd party drivers, updates and service packs... On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] Messenger refuses to die Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 9:05 am Posted by Jester101 (1 messages posted) Ok here's the problem. I am using XP Pro with SP1. I have deleted hide from everything in sysoc.inf and uninstalled messenger via add remove windows components. Reboot PC and....The little spawn of satan is still there. Back to add remove windows components and there is no tick in the box next to the standard messenger icon BUT there is another box with a tick in it underneath it. This is next to a grey diamond icon also named windows messenger. I know just untick this one aswell and be gone evil one. Err...not quite. I cannot untick this second entry or rather I can select it and the disk space goes up or down accordingly but tick is always there. I have selected the lesser disk space so to speak as if I was uninstalling this component; upon reboot the icon still takes up valuable real estate on my task bar. Any priests out there ??????? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, March 4, 2003 at 2:04 am Posted by User7 (1 messages posted) ====================== Try this link for some usefull WMP info ... I have not tried some of the brute force methods yet ... but ... you may find this link of use .. HTH Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html Regards, PeterM ====================== On Monday, February 10, 2003 at 1:24 pm, Mick wrote: >I haven't tried this but, you could use your XP installation disk to do a system >repair, this means of course, you will have to re-install any 3rd party drivers, >updates and service packs... > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, March 9, 2003 at 8:42 am Posted by Todd (1 messages posted) The real answer - You cannot uninstall WMP9 from XP without using System Restore, another little evil surprise from Microsoft. Here's their official response: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/readme.aspx#removeplayer On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 7:21 am Posted by Netra010 (1 messages posted) What component in the sysco.inf file is media player? Netra [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 9:10 am Posted by David (1 messages posted) Tried to do a system restore, but my restore points don't go back far enough (and they're set at max. Also, in my XP Home version sysoc.inf is located at C:\WINDOWS\inf\sysoc.inf. In addition to checking "Show hidden and system files" in Folder Options, I had to uncheck "Hide protected operating system files" just below it to find sysoc.inf -- even in a search. Good luck. As for where to store the copy -- wherever you can find it if you need it! (Think about it.) On Wednesday, January 15, 2003 at 7:40 am, j wrote: >To uninstall WMP9, u must do a system restore. >simply turn back time. >This is how u remove WMP9, still working on the WMP8 part. >Microsoft wants u to understand that if u want to get something away, u have to turn >back the time in XP. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, March 23, 2003 at 3:59 pm Posted by tk (1 messages posted) I too would like too know what component in the sysco.inf file is the media player. i cant figure out which one it is? On Saturday, March 15, 2003 at 7:21 am, Netra010 wrote: >What component in the sysco.inf file is media player? > >Netra [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 7:50 am Posted by sandy (1 messages posted) i cannot get media player 9 to unistall .is there a program to do this? On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Messenger refuses to die Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 10:44 pm Posted by Wormy (1 messages posted) IF ALL YOU want to do is get rid of that annoying icon, which is pretty much what everyone wants to do, don't uninstall the impossible. Just open Messenger like you are going to use it, then when it's not looking, sneak into its options and uncheck the 'load on windows startup' checkbox. It wont actually delete the program, but it is small enough to the point where you will not be wasting space, and it will not load in the background, so it wont waste memory either. I still can't uninstall windows media player 8 though. I dont even care about uninstalling, I just wish that when i right click an MP3 it wouldn't give me a bunch of stupid WMP options. Takes up 1/2 my screen. On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 9:05 am, Jester101 wrote: > >Ok here's the problem. I am using XP Pro with SP1. >I have deleted hide from everything in sysoc.inf and uninstalled messenger via add >remove windows components. Reboot PC and....The little spawn of satan is still there. > Back to add remove windows components and there is no tick in the box next to the >standard messenger icon BUT there is another box with a tick in it underneath it. > This is next to a grey diamond icon also named windows messenger. I know just untick >this one aswell and be gone evil one. Err...not quite. I cannot untick this second >entry or rather I can select it and the disk space goes up or down accordingly but >tick is always there. I have selected the lesser disk space so to speak as if I >was uninstalling this component; upon reboot the icon still takes up valuable real >estate on my task bar. Any priests out there ??????? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, April 26, 2003 at 10:00 pm Posted by evil_m$ (1 messages posted) You cannot uninstall WMP9 from XP without using System Restore. WMP is nothing more special than WMP7 or WMP8, other than surround sound and the new WMA codec support, with the added eye candy and annoyances as usual. Try Zoom Player...it plays everything WMP can...and it's faster than it sounds. Serach for it on google.com. On Wednesday, April 23, 2003 at 7:50 am, sandy wrote: >i cannot get media player 9 to unistall .is there a program to do this? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, May 7, 2003 at 5:05 pm Posted by SystemResearcher (4 messages posted) Yeah it can be done, for all of you who say it can't -- you obviously need to do your homework. wmp.inf - located in \windows\inf =2 key items= First - [WMPUninstKey] is there but has not script actions. Second - Bottom part of the .inf you will find this PROMPT_UNINSTALL_COMPLETE = "Microsoft Windows Media Player uninstall is now complete." CONFIRM_UNINSTALL="Are you sure you wish to uninstall the Microsoft Windows Media Player?" TITLE_UNINSTALL="Microsoft Windows Media Player Uninstall" Plus in the registry you will find this: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer] "BlockUninstall"="Yes" huh....insteresting isn't it.....if it's impossible to uninstall why would they need to block such an action by a registry key, and what about the other point I brought up? a Prompt to uninstall in the file it's self. Anyone care to help figure this one out? On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, May 31, 2003 at 6:55 am Posted by yangui (2 messages posted) I found something interesting : win xp has a directory under system32 called dllcache where resides ... tada wmplayer.exe ! When you delete it and run wmplayer from StartMenu>Run the system indicates that some files have been removed and must be reinstalled. Just say no and you're done ! Now when you try to run wmplayer it says : 'windows can't find wmplayer.exe' ... [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 6:48 am Posted by yangui (2 messages posted) Additional note : it seems that when you run WinXp SP1 the system tries to maintain the system file integrity through 2 directories: x:\WINDOWS\ServicePackFiles\i386 x:\WINDOWS\system32\dllcache (this one is hidden) When you delete files from both dirs Windows File Protection tries to recover them by asking you to insert WinXP SP1-Cd. If you say 'no' then the system stops trying to recover those files. So far on my system, using this tip I have been able to delete all WM8 files from C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player EXCEPT mplayer2.exe which I use extensively. Best of luck to you all ;-) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, June 1, 2003 at 2:49 pm Posted by s!Lv3|2 (1 messages posted) judt dl the Media Player Classic MPC 6.4.5.2 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 is the same old 6.4 but it has many updates and it requires way less resources than 9 [Reply or follow-up to this message] Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Tuesday, June 3, 2003 at 2:06 pm Posted by Rich (1 messages posted) Starting clean and fresh, this should work completely under certain circumstances. I'm sure a lot of us don't have these circumstances going for us, but it does in fact work. 1.) The only way to remove Windows Media Player 9 Series without hacking your registry to pieces is to simply uninstall it using the "Restore Computer" Wizard. (That's the program that suposedly brings your computer back to a certain date)This will bring you back to Windows Media Player 8 Series. 2.) From there, open up an Explorer window and then go to Folder Options. Be sure that you can see your hidden files and system files. 3.) Navigate to your system directory (typically C:\Windows or C:\WINNT) or type in %Systemroot%\inf 4.) Find the sysoc.inf File and open it. There are several threads of information all containing the word "HIDE" which hide them from the components listing for Window. Remove all of the "Hide" words but don't remove the commas. 5.) Restart Windows XP and then go to your Add/Remove Programs in the control Panel. Scroll down 'til you see Windows Media Player. You'll see the icon that's typically displayed along with another icon which is the actual program. Uncheck it and then press "Apply" You should be set, if you have any questions E-mail me at SpartagusII@earthlink.net [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 3:53 pm Posted by Conan O'Brien (10 messages posted) RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\windows\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Monday, July 14, 2003 at 5:03 am Posted by leon (1 messages posted) I just ran this one from 'run' in the start menu (remove the ''): 'RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall' No fuss, no worries, you get a nice prompt 'Do you really want to uninstall windows XP wmp9?', the HDD makes a fuss, you'll be asked to reboot...and gone is the s*ker! I just did it myself, and it works as a shine! Cheers, Leon. On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 3:53 pm, Microsoft Support wrote: >RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\windows\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, July 16, 2003 at 2:08 am Posted by cruzn kiwi (1 messages posted) wanna uninstall windows media player are ypu a dreamer and pretender or what.. On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, August 6, 2003 at 10:27 pm Posted by chris (2 messages posted) I tried it exatly as stated in your messege's and it does not work. i left both commas and everything exatly the way you said. it did put a blank box in the add and remove windows components but there was nothing i could do with it. it did not say it was windows messenger nor would it let me check the box. On Friday, January 4, 2002 at 7:32 am, Pierre wrote: >it works, thanks you much > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at 9:49 pm Posted by Mike Johanning (3 messages posted) YEAH!! I was starting to think it was completely impossibile to remove WMP v9. Makes me wonder why M$ never mentions this. I had to delete the shortcut that pointed to the late WMP v9. Found a link in (All Progs>Accessories>Entertainment>Win Media Player) that points to v6.4.09.1125. It works fine. I didn't have System Restore on so I thought I was out of luck. It will teach me to look at the end of long threads before I read 'em from the top. I was getting depressed and then I tried the rundll Yeah! BTW, What prompted all this? I just wanted to clean up my Right Click Context Menus for .mp3 files. I started with WinAmp and managed to do clear them from inside the registry. No luck with the items related to WMP though. This uninstall left my context menu completely clean. THANK YOU On Wednesday, July 9, 2003 at 3:53 pm, Microsoft Support wrote: >RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection C:\windows\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, September 3, 2003 at 7:47 pm Posted by Mac (1 messages posted) worked like a champ, thanks. 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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, September 14, 2003 at 11:28 pm Posted by Mike Hallagan (2 messages posted) 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Thursday, October 16, 2003 at 2:32 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) http://www.xp-antispy.org/ this little program let's you get rid of messenger and gives you few really usefull options On Wednesday, October 2, 2002 at 4:55 pm, gary wrote: >you can open ie right click open or use notepad. I have now noticed that after sp1 >I cant find the file I am desperate to get rid of messenger ! > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, October 26, 2003 at 9:30 pm Posted by Daivox (1 messages posted) Windows 2000 is 50% faster than Windows XP. I ran benchmarks to prove it when I 'downgraded' and I was shocked. 15MB/sec disk access in XP jumped to 22MB/sec in 2000, and my video card benches jumped by astonishing rates (far beyond 50%). Everyone, go get Windows 2000 and start fresh; XP is designed to eat resources so that you'll be forced to upgrade your older computers if you want XP. The best part is that 2000 comes with WMP 6.4. WMP 7/8/9 are not even linked in. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 6:10 am Posted by maX (1 messages posted) Removing this version of the Player The method for removing Windows Media Player 9 Series from your computer varies depending on the version of the Windows operating system your computer is running. If your computer is running this operating system Do this Windows Millennium Edition, Windows XP Home Edition, or Windows XP Professional Use System Restore in Windows. Windows Media Player 9 Series will be removed and the previous version of the Player will be restored. ---------------- pro dv/web editor .. i will be SOOoooo against my clients .. using streaming .mpg or anything ms. well quicktime is the best anyway. oh and winamp is the best for audio ( funny i love pc but i hate microsoft) hmmm. note to self unistall bill gates.. end transmission--- [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 2:55 pm Posted by Mike Johanning (3 messages posted) Windows XP comes with a bunch of "un-needed" services turned on by default. One of the first things I do to a fresh install of windowsXP is turn off all un-needed services. With a little tweaking by a knowledgable user Windows XP is by far the best OS in the Windows family. Make sure you turn off the stupid blue themes! [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 12:26 am Posted by Luke (1 messages posted) I tried the sugested code in the run window and a message came back that said > Error in advpack.dll Missing entry: LaunchINFSectionC:\windows\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall and the demon remains.... I need a young priest and an old priest... The power of christ compells thee... F**k i hate bill gates, It will either be win 2k or linux for me. On Tuesday, September 2, 2003 at 9:49 pm, Mike Johanning wrote: >YEAH!! > >I was starting to think it was completely impossibile to remove WMP v9. Makes me >wonder why M$ never mentions this. I had to delete the shortcut that pointed to the >late WMP v9. Found a link in (All Progs>Accessories>Entertainment>Win Media Player) >that points to v6.4.09.1125. It works fine. > >I didn't have System Restore on so I thought I was out of luck. It will teach me >to look at the end of long threads before I read 'em from the top. I was getting >depressed and then I tried the rundll > >Yeah! BTW, What prompted all this? I just wanted to clean up my Right Click Context >Menus for .mp3 files. I started with WinAmp and managed to do clear them from inside >the registry. No luck with the items related to WMP though. This uninstall left my >context menu completely clean. > >THANK YOU > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 6:48 am Posted by Mike Johanning (3 messages posted) On the other hand, Bill Gates is my role model. Try going to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx and downloading the media player 9 install file. After you got that, install that, then reboot your system. After your back in your wunderful world of windows run that same command again. RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall That should do it. If it doesn't then the problem lies deeper and who knows, it could just be a poltergeist toying with you. If you really want to throw some holy water at it you could whip out your trusty you know what... NO, not your bible, your windows xp setup cd, and reinstall windows. That all depends on how much you hate your media demon player. As for going back to win2k, I wouldn't suggest that. I always just make my XP look like 2k by getting rid of all the ugly blue BS. (And a bunch of other tweaks, most of them I've written about on my website.) On Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 12:26 am, Luke wrote: >I tried the sugested code in the run window and a message came back that said > Error >in advpack.dll Missing entry: LaunchINFSectionC:\windows\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall >and the demon remains.... >I need a young priest and an old priest... The power of christ compells thee... F**k >i hate bill gates, It will either be win 2k or linux for me. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at 1:33 pm Posted by Gord Knox (1 messages posted) Ok, did the re-install, did un-associate, did nifty run-uninstall command. Now I get msgbox with "Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. Do you want to install the Player from the Microsoft web site?" As the preceding conversation roams around a bit I may be missing a step that was mentioned earlier. Suggestions for getting back to WMP 6 given the above? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Thursday, December 25, 2003 at 2:23 pm 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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, January 18, 2004 at 9:56 pm Posted by Ivo Costa (1 messages posted) Dear Pierre, I wanted to try out your method to unistall the media player but it did not work cause, there is no "winnt" on my hard drive even though I have Win xp installed on my comp. Please suggest some ways to change language setting of my windows media player. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Probbie Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 9:40 pm Posted by Melthor (1 messages posted) Well, here is my problem...I had some video in divx and xvid format and suddenly WMP refused to play them with no particular reason...WTF is going on ?:P i have the codecs and like i told everything were normal... 10x for reading :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Probbie Wednesday, February 4, 2004 at 12:05 pm Posted by jediboyuk (1 messages posted) Easy mate! Don't use Media Player. Use a better less spying intrusive one. BS Player is a total dolly for xvid etc. & WinAmp's always had the stones for music (Winamp 3 even lets you cross-fade tracks!) Enjoy, and never forget: ***1*** from 'run' in the start menu (remove the ''): 'RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall' No fuss, no worries, you get a nice prompt 'Do you really want to uninstall windows XP wmp9?', the HDD makes a fuss, you'll be asked to reboot...and gone is the s*ker! & ***2***you can get Media Player Classic MPC 6.4.5.2 from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303 is the same old 6.4 but it has many updates and it requires way less resources than 9! Respect to the original posters further up for these tips I am merely reproducing. Pure genius, guys. We're lucky to have you. All the best to possibly the greatest forum about also! JEDI OUT On Thursday, January 22, 2004 at 9:40 pm, Melthor wrote: >Well, here is my problem...I had some video in divx and xvid format and suddenly >WMP refused to play them with no particular reason...WTF is going on ?:P i have the >codecs and like i told everything were normal... > >10x for reading :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Probbie Wednesday, February 18, 2004 at 10:43 am Posted by bobad (2 messages posted) >Easy mate! Don't use Media Player. Use a better less spying intrusive one. BS Player Yes, I love MPC, and use it. BUT! When I click on a movie, the devil WMP still opens the movie. I have tried associating all AVI, MPG, OGM, etc. with MPC, but WMP still pops up. I think I need a wooden stake. :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] playing mms protocol using wmp9 Monday, March 1, 2004 at 8:38 pm Posted by dev (1 messages posted) the windows media player 9 is suppossed to play mms protocol. It used to play it quite fine but suddenly one fine day it started giving the following error message "Windows Media Player cannot play the file because the specified protocol is not supported. In the Open URL dialog, try opening the file using a different transport protocol (for example, "http:" or "rtsp:")." how to resolve this problem? is there any alternate player which can be used to play mms protocols?i already tried to uninstall & then reinstall wmp9 but it did not work.Please suggest some solution. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, March 14, 2004 at 4:07 pm Posted by nek (1 messages posted) hi just go to : >add/remove programs and then to : >add/remove windows components on the left you will find media player bye NEK >{ [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 6:11 pm Posted by Tony (9 messages posted) There is way to uninstall wmp and other windows programs... Use a program called XPlite. Editing the sysoc.inf file also works in removing wmp. On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, April 2, 2004 at 4:49 pm Posted by Robert Martin (1 messages posted) Hello, What about just going to program files and deleting the appropriate folders? would this work? thanks. robert. On Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 6:11 pm, Tony wrote: >There is way to uninstall wmp and other windows programs... Use a program called >XPlite. Editing the sysoc.inf file also works in removing wmp. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 9:09 pm Posted by Tony (9 messages posted) I dont that would work/good idea because it would still be in your add/remove program list and it may also cause your system to fail On Friday, April 2, 2004 at 4:49 pm, Robert Martin wrote: >Hello, >What about just going to program files and deleting the appropriate folders? would >this work? thanks. robert. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, April 11, 2004 at 11:20 am Posted by David Gigli (1 messages posted) ok when I uninstall it theres no problem but then im left without a media player cause the media player 8 doesnt work then for some reason so rather then uninstalling this demonic program from hell might someone be able to tell me how you can add played music to the all music list or any other playist for that matter. Cause i have the Add played music to library option ON but the music just doesnt add so is it possible to add music to the playlists when played and if so could someone tell me? On Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 9:09 pm, Tony wrote: >I dont that would work/good idea because it would still be in your add/remove program >list and it may also cause your system to fail > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, April 16, 2004 at 8:18 pm Posted by ichbindeingott5 (2 messages posted) i'll try to help where i can... if you can not find the "inf"folder you may need to enable explorer to view hidden files and folders. also, if you are on xp you do not have a "winnt" folder, the "inf" folder lies withing windows, it looks like: C:/windows/inf/sysoc.inf now, the problem with all that is it is irrelevant in that you cannot remove WMP from your computer using the uninstall programs stuff... my suggestion is to keep on the lookout for a better wmp to be released, or for MS to relese an uninstaller. untill then, user winamp for your audio, VLC media Player or Power DVD for your movies. or just do config mplayer2 for your video... that works for me :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, May 8, 2004 at 9:20 am Posted by Mary (1 messages posted) Hi, I've been reading this thread and conclude that I can't uninstall Windows Media Player. I can live with this but what is annoying me is that last week Windows Media Player 9 now all of a sudden starts up everytime I turn my computer on. It doesn't just put a little icon on the menu bar; the whole program is open on my screen. As far as I am aware no one here downloaded version 9 so I don't know why this is suddenly happening! In fact we don't even use Windows Media Player as we use Music Matchbox. The only way I can figure out for WMP not to start up is to go into msconfig and take the check out of the box on the startup tab. But then everytime I turn my computer on I get a message that I have a custom configuration and it takes me to msconfig. geesh... Is there a way to have WPM sit quiety on my computer and not start up when the computer is turned on? On Friday, April 16, 2004 at 8:18 pm, ichbindeingott5 wrote: >i'll try to help where i can... >if you can not find the "inf"folder you may need to enable explorer to view hidden >files and folders. also, if you are on xp you do not have a "winnt" folder, the "inf" >folder lies withing windows, it looks like: C:/windows/inf/sysoc.inf >now, the problem with all that is it is irrelevant in that you cannot remove WMP >from your computer using the uninstall programs stuff... >my suggestion is to keep on the lookout for a better wmp to be released, or for MS >to relese an uninstaller. untill then, user winamp for your audio, VLC media Player >or Power DVD for your movies. or just do config mplayer2 for your video... that works >for me :) [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Friday, May 14, 2004 at 2:41 pm Posted by Jarvs (1 messages posted) I have two questions on your advice. First, do you have to use the "System Restore" program before hand? When I ran it, it took out my background, personalization, and deleted all of my bookmarks... Also, should you get a prompt when you run that command? I did not. Thanks [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Messenger refuses to die Monday, May 24, 2004 at 2:18 pm Posted by Ace (1 messages posted) Messenger is also activated in MS Office. So even if you uninstall it in Add/Remove Programs, you still have to deactivate it in Outlook. What you must do in Outlook is go to Tools\Options\Other and remove the check from the check boxes next to the Messenger Icon. On Saturday, February 22, 2003 at 9:05 am, Jester101 wrote: > >Ok here's the problem. I am using XP Pro with SP1. >I have deleted hide from everything in sysoc.inf and uninstalled messenger via add >remove windows components. Reboot PC and....The little spawn of satan is still there. > Back to add remove windows components and there is no tick in the box next to the >standard messenger icon BUT there is another box with a tick in it underneath it. > This is next to a grey diamond icon also named windows messenger. I know just untick >this one aswell and be gone evil one. Err...not quite. I cannot untick this second >entry or rather I can select it and the disk space goes up or down accordingly but >tick is always there. I have selected the lesser disk space so to speak as if I >was uninstalling this component; upon reboot the icon still takes up valuable real >estate on my task bar. Any priests out there ??????? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, June 25, 2004 at 1:06 pm Posted by Brentt (1 messages posted) There is a relly easy way to do this. Go to start, control panel, add/remove programs and at the top, click show updates. Scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on Windows Media Player 10 Beta. Click Change/remove and follow the steps. then after it is complete, restart your pc and it will be back to Windows Media Player 9 version. On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player 9 Series Wednesday, July 14, 2004 at 1:59 pm Posted by aHm (1 messages posted) I've done everything you said but at the end when i type the "RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall" in run, i get "you are aboyt to rollback windows media player 9 series to the original version of windows media player that was part of your version of windows. Do you want to continue" Isn't it supposed to say "Do you really want to uninstall windows XP wmp9?" I just want my wmp removed ! thx :> On Tuesday, December 9, 2003 at 6:48 am, Mike Johanning wrote: > >On the other hand, Bill Gates is my role model. > >Try going to http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player.aspx >and downloading the media player 9 install file. After you got that, install that, >then reboot your system. > >After your back in your wunderful world of windows run that same command again. > >RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %SystemRoot%\inf\wmp.inf,Uninstall > >That should do it. If it doesn't then the problem lies deeper and who knows, it could >just be a poltergeist toying with you. If you really want to throw some holy water >at it you could whip out your trusty you know what... NO, not your bible, your windows >xp setup cd, and reinstall windows. That all depends on how much you hate your media >demon player. > >As for going back to win2k, I wouldn't suggest that. I always just make my XP look >like 2k by getting rid of all the ugly blue BS. (And >a bunch of other tweaks, most of them I've written about on my website.) > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, August 29, 2004 at 6:55 pm Posted by jeff (5 messages posted) The only way I could get WMP 10.0 beta removed was to use RegSeeker (http://www.webattack.com/get/regseeker.shtml). From the main menu of RegSeeker select "Installed applications". Scroll down to "Windows Media Player 10" and select delete. This WILL remove it. If you then want to install version 9.0, go for it. It WORKS! On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help http://www.webattack.com/get/regseeker.shtml [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 4:59 am 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. > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 5:53 am Posted by Robert (1 messages posted) Go to add or remove programs, check the "Show Updates" box at top of opened window. Look under Windows updates. On Wednesday, September 1, 2004 at 4:59 am, Rhonda Smith wrote: >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 > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 7:16 am Posted by Rhonda Smith (2 messages posted) Thank you, Robert. But.....MP is not showing under Control Panel updates. Under Windows components it is listed but with 0 MB. BTW, I did change c:\windows\inf\mplayer2.inf that shows the following section: [WMPDelay.Actions] HKLM,"Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer","BlockUninstall",,"yes" to "no" Are we just stuck with this??? On Wednesday, September 8, 2004 at 5:53 am, Robert wrote: >Go to add or remove programs, check the "Show Updates" box at top of opened window. > Look under Windows updates. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, October 8, 2004 at 8:24 am Posted by Allan Bruce (1 messages posted) I had a pirated version of windows Xp Pro inserted in my machine without my knowledge - now I have a brand new home edition but my machine wont even let it start. Do I have to get a new Xp Professional to make it work? Thank you - I hope you can help a 76 year old man. On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 2:30 pm Posted by Maggie (1 messages posted) I tried deleting the folders and files, renaming and even moving them. No. They come back as hidden files every time you try. They're like viruses. On Sunday, April 4, 2004 at 9:09 pm, Tony wrote: >I dont that would work/good idea because it would still be in your add/remove program >list and it may also cause your system to fail > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 9:15 pm Posted by Mike (1 messages posted) ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS THEN TO THE LEFT... GO TO ADD/REMOVE WINDOWS COMPONENTS! Scroll Down; You will find Windows Media Player, Uncheck It; And Hit Apply; And Wait. If you ever reinstall through this option you will need a windowsdisk... NO MORE POSTS ON THIS PLEASE haha how hard could it be that people been posting for more than half a year On Sunday, October 31, 2004 at 2:30 pm, Maggie wrote: >I tried deleting the folders and files, renaming and even moving them. No. They come >back as hidden files every time you try. They're like viruses. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 6:04 pm Posted by Marie (5 messages posted) I'm also having the same exact problem. Any solutions? On Thursday, January 9, 2003 at 5:52 pm, Hellmut Golde wrote: >I had a different experience. I do not have a folder "winnt" in my XP Professional >system. I did find the file sysoc.inf in \Windows\inf and I deleted the "hide" in >the entry for msmsgs (which I assume is the Windows Mesenger), but it had no results >on the Add/Delete list after I rebooted. Also, I did not find an entry for Windows >Media Player in sysoc.inf. So, I need some more information. > >Thanks. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, December 4, 2004 at 5:59 am Posted by Jeffie Freedom (1 messages posted) you are such a douche for thinking that people spent half a year trying to figure out something that easy . . why don't YOU try to get rid of the Windows Media Player in XP . . BTW it's imposible On Wednesday, November 10, 2004 at 9:15 pm, Mike wrote: >ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS GO TO ADD/REMOVE PROGRAMS THEN TO THE LEFT... GO TO ADD/REMOVE >WINDOWS COMPONENTS! Scroll Down; You will find Windows Media Player, Uncheck It; >And Hit Apply; And Wait. If you ever reinstall through this option you will need >a windowsdisk... NO MORE POSTS ON THIS PLEASE haha how hard could it be that people >been posting for more than half a year > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, July 9, 2005 at 4:49 pm Posted by edie (2 messages posted) 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. Download and install ccleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com Restart in safe mode. After installing ccleaner, do a search for "wmp" in C:\Windows, make sure "search hidden files and folders" is checked in "more advanced options". 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. Go to C:\Program Files and delete the windows media player folder. Now try installing the older version of windows. This will not uninstall windows media player 10 but it will let you install an older version of windows media player. On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, July 9, 2005 at 5:51 pm 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. > >Download and install ccleaner from http://www.ccleaner.com > >Restart in safe mode. > >After installing ccleaner, do a search for "wmp" in C:\Windows, make sure "search >hidden files and folders" is checked in "more advanced options". > >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. > >Go to C:\Program Files and delete the windows media player folder. > >Now try installing the older version of windows. > >This will not uninstall windows media player 10 but it will let you install an older >version of windows media player. > > > > > > > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Sunday, August 21, 2005 at 6:33 am Posted by The Other Guy (1 messages posted) never say it's impossible. It's very much possible. I just dont know yet On Saturday, December 4, 2004 at 5:59 am, Jeffie Freedom wrote: >you are such a douche for thinking that people spent half a year trying to figure >out something that easy . . why don't YOU try to get rid of the Windows Media Player >in XP . . BTW it's imposible > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Friday, March 24, 2006 at 7:41 pm Posted by Boogie (1 messages posted) I can't do it. I tried all that Edie said to remove WMP10, but it didn't work. The darn thing won't die. On Sunday, August 21, 2005 at 6:33 am, The Other Guy wrote: >never say it's impossible. It's very much possible. I just dont know yet > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Thursday, March 30, 2006 at 5:40 pm Posted by kevin osborne (1 messages posted) from: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq.aspx Windows Media Player 10 If you have installed Windows Media Player 10, you can roll back to the version of the Player that was on your computer before installing Windows Media Player 10. To roll back from Windows Media Player 10 to a previous version, do the following: 1. In Control Panel (Category View), click Add or Remove Programs. 2. Click Remove a program, and then do one of the following: If you are running Windows XP Service Pack 2, select the Show updates check box (at the top of the list), click Windows Media Player 10 (in the Windows Updates section), and then click Change/Remove. - or - If you are running Windows XP Service Pack 1 or earlier, click Windows Media Player 10, and then click Change/Remove. - worked for me. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 11:08 pm Posted by axel18 (1 messages posted) Ok in the add and remove programs uninstall service pack 2 then uninstall Windows media player and then re-upgrade to serivce pack 2 On Friday, March 24, 2006 at 7:41 pm, Boogie wrote: >I can't do it. I tried all that Edie said to remove WMP10, but it didn't work. The >darn thing won't die. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 6:22 am Posted by OwnageKingX (1 messages posted) All you've gotta do is go to "Add and remove programs" Check "Show updates" Then Click Change and remove It will rollback. Then remove the WMP Format Runtime. And now you've got your previous WMP version. And just remove that one. On Wednesday, February 28, 2007 at 11:08 pm, axel18 wrote: > >Ok in the add and remove programs uninstall service pack 2 then uninstall Windows >media player and then re-upgrade to serivce pack 2 > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 4:26 pm Posted by Nick (1 messages posted) Interesting topic starting in 2002 but this is the problem I have, Every time I try to play a video from the internet on an internet wmp, my internet freezes because of my retarded version of wmp 10, and every time I want to stream a video from the internet to my wmp it starts downloading the video to a temporary folder and I get an error from wmp saying that this file failed to play because it is on another computer, but its not its in th temporary folder and all I wanted it to do was to stream it, but instead it downloaded it. I tried wat u said in the Add/Remove Programs and all of the other things stated here, but when I try to install an older version like wmp 9 or try reinstalling wmp 10, it says that u have a newer version installed on ur computer, but I don't and I already deleted any file associated with wmp and it still says I have a more current version installed, when I don't. Then I used system restore and in the thing that u said in the updates section I don't have a file named WMP 10 to uninstall!! it just says a bunch of security updates for windows XP. All I want is to watch videos online and have them stream properly into my wmp, and thats it, thats the only reason I want to rollback to an older version. If any can please help thank you. On Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 6:22 am, OwnageKingX wrote: >All you've gotta do is go to "Add and remove programs" Check "Show updates" >Then Click Change and remove >It will rollback. >Then remove the WMP Format Runtime. >And now you've got your previous WMP version. >And just remove that one. > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 6:06 pm Posted by 666 (2255 messages posted) The easy but expensive way: http://www.litepc.com/xplite.html The free way for if you ever plan a clean install: http://www.nliteos.com/ The hard way: switch off windows file protection, delete the WiMP folder, delete the same files from the hidden folder \windows\system32\dllcache (or just delete every file in the dllcache folder), ignore the warnings that XP pops up, and run a registry cleaner to remove the dead references to the files you deleted. ______________ make windows xp behave [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Monday, May 28, 2007 at 9:34 pm Posted by Frank (13 messages posted) I think Microsoft sneaks WMP9 in on you through the updates or something. I did not download it but woke up one bright morning and there it was. They do other sneaky things also. > >The free way for if you ever plan a clean install: http://www.nliteos.com/ > >The hard way: switch off windows file protection, delete the WiMP folder, delete >the same files from the hidden folder \windows\system32\dllcache (or just delete >every file in the dllcache folder), ignore the warnings that XP pops up, and run >a registry cleaner to remove the dead references to the files you deleted. > >______________ > >make windows xp behave [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Tuesday, September 2, 2008 at 9:15 pm Posted by Charlotte Hyatt (2 messages posted) I've read this entire thread and did not find my problem. My WMP keeps jumping while downloading video and audio from the web. Sort of like buffering but I have a cable modem, 1gb ram, and the XP desktop has 60gb free on the drive. it stutters so fast I cannot even close out the program before it starts again. Charlotte Hyatt On Monday, May 28, 2007 at 9:34 pm, Frank wrote: >I think Microsoft sneaks WMP9 in on you through the updates or something. I did not >download it but woke up one bright morning and there it was. They do other sneaky >things also. > > > > >>The free way for if you ever plan a clean install: http://www.nliteos.com/ >> >>The hard way: switch off windows file protection, delete the WiMP folder, delete >>the same files from the hidden folder \windows\system32\dllcache (or just delete >>every file in the dllcache folder), ignore the warnings that XP pops up, and run >>a registry cleaner to remove the dead references to the files you deleted. >> >>______________ >> >>make windows xp behave [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Thursday, December 11, 2008 at 2:49 am Posted by manish (1 messages posted) im not able to find \winnt\inf\sysoc.inf on my computer, i did search but it turned up blank...help On Thursday, January 3, 2002 at 6:47 am, Pierre wrote: >I would like to complete uninstall windows media player out of my Windows XP. Is >it possible? Please help [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Uninstall Windows Media Player from XP Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 1:54 pm 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 > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum