Comments on: How to Uninstall / Rollback Windows Media Player 10

By: KJ

KJ — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 23:07:55 +0000

Windows Media Player is a joke.
Itunes is EVEN worse.

Download Winamp….and if you need to change your file names use one of the two —— programs listed above.

Don’t believe me? That’s fine. I just “custom installed” winamp after downloading it and chose to keep the OLD SCHOOL skin.

No extra features. No extra ——– to slow down the media player-whose purpose may I remind you is to do just as its name says:
Play media.

That’s all I want my media player to do, so I use Winamp. Forget everything else.

By: lefty

lefty — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 03:19:17 +0000

I hate WMP. No matter what I do, I can’t remove it. I tried all of the listed methods, follwed their instructions to a tee, and low & behold, all the WMP files still reside safely in my C: drive. WHAT CAN I DO?!!! I wanna go back to older versions, but every time little windows pop up to indicate that WMP 10 has finally been removed from my computer, I go to install version 8 and another little window pops up to inform me that my computer already has a more recent version of WMP. AGHHHHHHH!!!!!! (tears out sideburns) I don’t even know why I care so much. I think I just want to beat this because there should be a way to fix everything!! M$ should fix their bugs!! And if all this WMP crap isn’t what they’d classify as a bug, I’d hate to see what they really call a glitch…
Anyways, if anyone has more time and/or brainpower to devote to this cause, please notify me should you stumble upon the solution.
Thank you.
Peace!!!
Luv,
Mike F.

By: Mayotruck

Mayotruck — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 06:26:31 +0000

Ok well heres my issue… I was running WMP11 and I have rolled it back to WMP10 after alot of research…but now is it possible for me to get wmp9 on my computer, without a reformat ? Every solution I have seen says roll it back…well my “previous version” of WMP was 11 so if I roll it back it will go back and forth to WMP10->WMP11 when all i want is WMP9…

I have wmp10 in my add remove but all i can do with that is rollback to wmp11…getting pretty upset about tis whole ordeal.

By: llitos

llitos — Wed, 06 Dec 2006 00:12:50 +0000

has someone ever seen a little box which says “the file wmp.dll has a version number of 10.0.0.3937″ bla bla bla??

Well, the Windows media player won’t work.. all you have to do is go to the registry and erase this little file. It worked on my PC, I hope it works on yours.

on the RegisTry:

Hkey_Local_Machine/
Software/
Microsoft/
Media Player/
Setup/
Installed Versions/

And in this part, you’ll see: ab(default), wmplayer.exe, wmploc.dll AND the one you want OUT!!… wmp.dll Just erase this one… and watch your videos!

Bye

By: FROBER

FROBER — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:55:31 +0000

I couldn’t remove my MP v.11, but it is fully possible to roll back to earlier vesion, such as v.10, by simply using the built-in program “System Restor” in Windows Xp.

By: ab

ab — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:17:16 +0000

I’ll go all the way back to Windows Media Player 6.4 with it’s options to open multiple players at one time, easy ablility to go full screen when watching video.

Since I am low tech and don’t want to risk crashing the Windows XP, I manually run MP 6.4 and manually open files in it.

Hit start button, click run option, in box type mplayer2.exe, and it brings up the player.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:30:46 +0000

do you know how to rollback from WMP 11 back to 10?

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:19:28 +0000

I typed in run “C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\Setup_wm.exe”

but it just says you are running the most recent version of wmp10 and all of its components. There are no updates at this time.

By: Brian

Brian — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 14:30:36 +0000

Hi there,

I came across this page while trying to figure out the WMP problem. I tried doing a lot of things a couple of weeks ago and couldn’t get anywhere. Couldn’t apparently get rid of it and couldn’t install a diff version. But it wasn’t really there either (WMP wouldn’t open or work) I had to end up performing a system restore.
In the steps above, there is no media player or uninstall Media Player in the “uninstall” folder in the registry string for me.
Will the “show updates” or [click run then type ("C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\Setup_wm.exe" /Uninstall)] work??? I don’t want to go through all this again if it just isn’t going to work.

It’s frustrating to go to CNN.com and not be able to see their video clips because I’m prompted to get WMP 9 or above when I already have it.

I’m running XP (media edition??) on a sony vaio laptop. The media player was already installed. I’ve had other computers that could run multiple versions of WMP.

Did any of you have the same problems?

Thanks

By: pctech

pctech — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:48:44 +0000

click start, click run then type (”C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\Setup_wm.exe” /Uninstall) (not including the brackets.)

This is the command line from the registry. I’m just amazed no one made it simpler for others.

PCTECH