[Ethan Bowen]

I downloaded it and it will not install because it says that it WMP 10 is only for XP 32 bit O/S....I was going to try 11 again...?!?!?

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OK that would be my next suggestion too.

Edited by rshaffer61, 18 April 2009 - 04:04 PM.

[rshaffer61]

OK that would be my next suggestion too.

Edited by rshaffer61, 18 April 2009 - 04:04 PM.

[Ethan Bowen]

I tried the 11 and it said that the version that I tried to install could not be installed over the recent one which is already installed....

[rshaffer61]

Try to install it to a different directory...for example

C:\WMP11

Edited by rshaffer61, 18 April 2009 - 04:12 PM.

[Ethan Bowen]

Yeah I agree that is a good idea, but I only get beyond the User Licensee Agreement and then the error message comes up...

[rshaffer61]

Hmmm, well it seems that Microsoft has locked this down really tight now. I cannot think of any way to get around this now. I would suggest third party ripping software as I stated in post 18
Being that microsoft is not allowing preinstalled versions of Vista and WMP to be uninstalled from control panel that is making it harder to find a fix. As Major Payne stated you might try going to the directory it is installed in and try to remove it that way.

[Ethan Bowen]

How would I do that? And I just tried to remove WMP using a third party uninstaller and it could not even find WMP...........

Edited by Ethan Bowen, 18 April 2009 - 04:43 PM.

[rshaffer61]

This is what Major Payne suggested...I misquoted the post number before

The path to WMP for Vista is listed on my PC as: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" Definitely not in the list of Add/Remove programs. Just wonder if he could physically remove it from the directory?

[rshaffer61]

Maybe Artellos can find something I have missed. I see he's reading this thread.

[Ethan Bowen]

Removing WMP in that directory about crashed my Laptop-not kidding....Oh this is really starting to tick me off

[rshaffer61]

What happened?

[Ethan Bowen]

I tried to get ride of WMP in that directory for me it was C:/ProgramFiles/WindowsMediaPlayer/wmplayer.exe and I tried to wipe everything out of that directory but it almost crashed my Laptop, and it was acting up. I said that it was using WMP and so I went the task manager and ended processes that where WMP and tried it again and it almost crashed it again and I had to restart my Laptop...

[Ethan Bowen]

What about downloading the codes manually? How do you do that?

[rshaffer61]

Downloading the codecs is the site I gave you earlier. The K-Lite pack
Have you reinstalled WMP back in to the same directory?
That should take care of the crashing problem as it is looking for the directory and its not there

[Ethan Bowen]

Oh okay, but see what I do not understand is that I installed the codes and it says that I have to do it again??!@?@?? Yeah I reset it back to the place where it came from. If I downloaded the codes manually why did that not take care of the problem then? That is what it said, to download the codes or it would do it automatically...That is what is getting me, I did what it said to do and it still does not work..>>!>@>@