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wiltay — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 03:49:34 GMT

Thanks for the info.

Original Blog Entry: Cut Out Windows Media Player From WinXP, Didn't Crash WinXP.

LANTERN — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:34:26 GMT

I didn't uninstall WMP, I deleted it.

C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player

It is almost as if it had been uninstalled, in practice, its folder is still there and:

setup_wm.exe

Is there, but that is all that is there, I guess kind of like waiting for me to install it or something.

I had Windows Media Player 9, I had uninstalled the older WMP, so I could not roll-back to it.

So WMP 9 could not be uninstalled nor deleted for good, as it would regenerate itself and all its files evertime that I deleted them.

That is due to Windows Files Protection, system files either can't be deleted and or they regenerate soon after you delete them.

This appears to be done from Windows 2000 on up, Win98SE and below didn't have that.

To do as I did is kind of very risky for the Windows instalation and also hard to do, is better for most people not to try to do such things.

Anyhow, now WMP is out of the way for this particular partition-installation.

I have tested several Media Players and:

http://www.getmiro.com/

Miro kind of won, it gives a nice video-picture and plays many kinds of video files.

For Midi files you can get:

vkaraoke.exe

Or

vanBasco's Karaoke Player

Both of those Midi players are nice also.

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There are also nice portable media players out there.

The Main question might be:

Will it play or not?

With Miro and VLC there is a good chance that they will play, I like Miro better.

Having to download Codecs for a player to work is not a good thing, Miro and VLC already come with their own built in codecs.

No separate codecs to download.

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