How to Uninstall Windows Media Player 11
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Usually most of the software you install has an uninstall option in the program menu from where you can easily uninstall the software, but with some softwares like Windows Media Player 11 and Internet Explorer 7 it is not the case.
Recently one of my readers asked me how to uninstall the Windows Media Player 11, which in itself is not a straight forward task as it is does not have an uninstall option present unlinke most of the other softwares.
Performing the steps listed below you can remove any Windows Software updates that have been installed on your computer, including Internet Explorer 7 and any other updates.
Its a quite simple process and do this you will have to open the Add / remove program option from Control Panel.
Once you are in the Add / Remove Program section you will see a list of programs that have been installed on your computer.
In the top section of the Add / Remove program section you will see a small check box saying Show updates click on that as shown in the screen shot below.
Once you have clicked on that scroll down till you see Windows XP – Software Updates.
Under that remove anything that is related to the Windows media player 11 and you will have successfully uninstalled Windows Media Player 11.
You will also find the Internet Explorer Beta 7 and various other updates installed by Windows Update and uninstall it using the same steps.
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thomas tompkins
June 17th, 2006 at 9:33 pm #
THANK FOR LETTING MEHOW TO UNINSTALL MEDIA PLAYER 1 I THINK IT SUCKS BECAKS IT SCREWS EVERYTHING UP
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SSSS Reply:
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:26 am
I removed the media player on a wrong way… I just removed the icon, and now I can`t get rid of the other files and I can`t install it again:S
Can some body help me?
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Sony Joseph
June 23rd, 2006 at 4:58 am #
Hat’s off To whoever found this solution….. to uninstall the Windows Media Player 11….. and Internet Explorer 7.
I racked my head for 3 days and searched many tech websites and forums but could not find the solution…. I may have skipped your website but today on 23rd June 2006…. I happened to see this and was thrilled…. Thanks buddy….
Regards,
Sony Joseph
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Techie
June 23rd, 2006 at 5:17 am #
Great to know that you found a solution to your woes from this site.
I am glad to be of help.
Keep visiting back for more such interesting things.
Thanks
Techie
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Gerald
July 20th, 2006 at 3:19 pm #
yeahh i have the same exact problem as Ashley…sumone help pleeeez!
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Sid. Coates
July 8th, 2006 at 2:38 am #
Like the look of Windows Media Player 11 but soon found out it did not support my “online stores” and was therefore unable to download any music tracks. This is of course the BETA version so hopefully the full version will soon be out !
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scott
July 8th, 2006 at 3:46 pm #
Cool this is good stuff…for whatever reason pcmark05 doesnt like media player 11
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Howard
July 8th, 2006 at 7:59 pm #
Thanks for the help. Media Player 11 sucks!
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joedy
July 9th, 2006 at 10:59 am #
Thanks for the find, but mine Fails to roll back… thanks MS…
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Paul Reply:
June 12th, 2007 at 8:37 am
I have tried everything to uninstall WMP 11. Nothing works…it won’t roll back to 10. WMP 11 also plays videos from CNN and ESPN, which use the WMP format, upside down.
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Techie
July 9th, 2006 at 11:27 pm #
Hi scott,
Thanks I hope to help in future too.
Howard,
Glad to be of some help to you.
Joedy,
Too sad you could not get rid of it, maybe I can help you if you want.
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Ashley
July 10th, 2006 at 12:58 am #
I have tried to uninstall the way you said, but it says that it has rolled back to the previous version succesfully but when I click on the icon for media player nothing happens and when I try to install media player 10 it says it cant because ther is a newer version on the computer, I have tried restarting and all that, but no matter how many times it says it rolled back the version nothing seems to change except I cant access the player without reinstalling media player 11.
I need media player 10 because 11 screws around with my iRiver MPC.
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sudnem Reply:
September 6th, 2007 at 5:12 am
if you fail to unisnatll wmp11 (rollback to the previous version of wmp) please try the following solution if all other solutions given above fails….. but note this might even take u back to wmp9 (original wmp that comes with winxp).. then u might need to re-install wmp10 again if that’s what u want…
I tried every possible solution that was give in all the sites….. maybe there are even tools which i might have not come across… but the following worked for me… so i hope it will work for u too
GOTO ->
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
after the rollback is complete… a restart might be required… then afterwards…
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
again a reatart might be needed….
good luck all!
No warranties express or implied with this solution. Try at you own risk.
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clinton lewis Reply:
March 29th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
the files
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
and
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
don’t seem to exist on my computer to get rid of this BLEEPING program.
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Steve-O Reply:
October 15th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
Copy The Directories He Gave You Into Your Windows Explorer Address Bar.
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
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Rajeev Mishra Reply:
November 14th, 2009 at 5:24 am
thanx a lot
At last that worked….
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Sam K.
July 23rd, 2006 at 10:55 am #
Hi all,
I’m hoping someone has an answer for my problem. Not the personal ones.
Ever since I installed media 11 my colors are all messed up. Everything is highly saturated with red. Even DVDs that I play via PowerDVD are overly red. Worth mentioning is that I never had a problem with version 10. Serves me right to try a beta from MS!
Like many here I’ve tried to uninstall version 11 to no avail. My next step to start poking in the registry.
Any thoughs other than reinstall XP? Please…
Thank you.
Sam
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Timothy Reply:
May 25th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
I have had the same problem. The first time, I corrected it by re-installing WMP. This time, I am running into the same “rollback” problem as everyone else and I can’t seem to reinstall WMP–the installer runs through the entire installation process and tells me at the end that it was unsuccessful
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jordan
July 26th, 2006 at 4:25 pm #
thank you sooooo much….media player SUKS. had soo many problems. thank for the tip
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yolanda taylor
July 26th, 2006 at 2:20 pm #
i thought i was getting a good deal but i found out i was sooooooo.. wrong thank you very much for showing me how to get rid of this version i hope nobady else is as jumpy as me to get rid of thier 10 version.
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Rob Engley
August 5th, 2006 at 6:00 am #
I tried for over two weeks to uninstall windows media 11 from my computer. I went to many different web sites to try to find out how to do this. On my own I found out the best way to do this is to go to safe mode. Once you are in safe mode you can go to my computer and then to C drive. Once there click programs and find windows media and delete it. You might also go to search and type in windows media and then delete what ever comes up there. People this really works just try it. If you have questions just write me and maybe I can help you through this.
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ChefDave Reply:
November 14th, 2007 at 4:26 am
I tried this method of going in through safe mode and simply deleting Media Player. Worked like a charm! Thanks a lot, Rob. It would have never occurred to me to try it this way. I would have kept on trying and getting my blood pressure up to the boiling point ’til I just exploded and left my wife to clean up the mess! She thanks you, too, btw.
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Solari Reply:
March 12th, 2008 at 4:14 am
I tried and it seems I got rid of WMP11. But then I can’t install WMP10?
It says that it’s not compatible with my OS. I have ordinary XP and I’m trying to install WMP10 for XP. What can be wrong?
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Bud
August 7th, 2006 at 3:06 pm #
FANTASTIC!!!! windows media 11 was about to drive me to compter mayhem. Thanks for your help in removing Media 11. I’m sure when it is ready for the market it will be great like the media 10.
Thanks again, Bud
Be Blessed
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Suryakant
August 19th, 2006 at 3:36 am #
Thanks for the information to uninstall WMP11 with right screen shots.It works.
regards,
Suryakant Nayak
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Silent
August 19th, 2006 at 10:05 pm #
Hi Thanks so much, MP 11 really sucks and cause alot problems
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Steven
July 21st, 2006 at 4:39 am #
This is what microsoft suggests:
Rolling back to a previous version of the Player
Windows Media Player is a feature of the Windows operating system and cannot be removed entirely. However, in Windows XP, you can roll back to the version of the Player that was previously on your computer.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to perform the following procedure.
1.
Disconnect any portable music or video devices that might be attached to your computer.
For more information, see Issues with devices after removing Windows Media Player.
2.
In Category View of Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Remove a program.
3.
At the top of the list, select the Show updates check box.
4.
In the Windows XP – Software Updates section, click Windows Media Player 11, and then click Change/Remove.
5.
In each of the two confirmation dialog boxes that appear, click OK.
6.
When the rollback process is complete (it might take several minutes to complete), click Restart.
7.
In Category View of Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Remove a program.
8.
At the top of the list, select the Show updates check box.
9.
In the Windows XP – Software Updates section, click Windows Media Format 11 Runtime, and then click Change/Remove.
If you installed a non-US English version of Windows Media Player 11, the instructions in the dialog boxes that are mentioned in steps 9, 10, and 11 might appear in English.
10.
In the first confirmation dialog box that appears, click OK.
11.
In the second confirmation dialog box that appears, select the Do you want to continue with the rollback? check box, and then click OK.
12.
When the rollback process is complete (it might take several minutes to complete), click Restart.
13.
In Category View of Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs, and then click Remove a program.
14.
Click Microsoft User-Mode Driver Frameworks Feature Pack 1.0, and then click Remove.
15.
Follow the instructions that appear in the Software Update Removal Wizard.
If the Wudf01000 confirmation dialog box appears, click Yes to continue. When the software removal process is complete (it might take several minutes to complete), click Finish.
Note If you remove Windows Media Player 11 and the Windows Media Format 11 Runtime, and then encounter error C00D271D (”A problem has occurred in the Digital Rights Management component. Contact Microsoft product support.”), you might be able to resolve the problem by installing the Windows Media Format 9.5 Runtime. For information about installing the Runtime, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, see article 891122, “Update for Windows Media Digital Rights Management-enabled players.”
You might not be able to roll back to a previous version of the Player if the hidden folder $NtUninstallwmp11$ is deleted from your computer. Some non-Microsoft programs (such as CCleaner) delete this folder in an attempt to remove unwanted files from your computer.
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DURANDAL
August 30th, 2006 at 10:51 pm #
Omg that dint work it rollback to windows media player 10, but qith skins and buttons of media player 11 and it freezes…
oh wwait now it doesnt wor at all
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BIT-stream
September 2nd, 2006 at 1:30 am #
Hi.. all
if you fail to unisnatll wmp11 (rollback to the previous version of wmp) please try the following solution if all other solutions given above fails….. but note this might even take u back to wmp9 (original wmp that comes with winxp).. then u might need to re-install wmp10 again if that\’s what u want…
I tried every possible solution that was give in all the sites….. maybe there are even tools which i might have not come across… but the following worked for me… so i hope it will work for u too
GOTO ->
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
after the rollback is complete… a restart might be required… then afterwards…
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
again a reatart might be needed….
good luck all!
p.s. the reason behind unistalling wmp11 was not coz it was bad… coz i did not have any bad experience with it untill now when i got my nokia n91 the mplayer sync driver that came with the player did not work with wmp11… this is due to me upgrading wmp9(comes withg windows) directly to wmp11. i had to install wmp10 1st to make the driver work and then upgrade to wmp11… which fixed my problem…. but the latest wmp11 beta does not work at all with the syn driver anyway….
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Sergio Reply:
August 21st, 2007 at 11:12 am
Thanks BIT-stream. Was the only one metod that helped me…
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Sol
September 22nd, 2006 at 3:37 pm #
You sir are a genius , the uninstallation process seems to be complex yet its so simple to perform….keep on the good work,i love your work
peace
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aaron.9
September 2nd, 2006 at 9:12 pm #
thanx u helped alot ……….
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billgatessucks
September 4th, 2006 at 11:32 am #
MP11 SUCKS and so does BILL GATES!
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Gary
September 7th, 2006 at 12:47 am #
[quote=Sam K.]Hi all,
I\’m hoping someone has an answer for my problem. Not the personal ones.
Ever since I installed media 11 my colors are all messed up.
Hi Sam,
Have you found a solution? I have the same problem. I haven\’t installed Media Player 11 tho… My red saturated issues only started after I updated my drivers for 7900GT. But I have exactly the same problem as you, red saturation in all video and not just in media player.
Drop me a line if you came right.
G out
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Javi
September 22nd, 2006 at 2:59 pm #
BIT-stream
^^^thx for the help
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Jay
September 23rd, 2006 at 9:43 am #
I HATE WMP11! Where can I find:
GOTO ->
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
BITstream, I cant locate this where you suggested. Any ideas? Thanks.
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BIT-stream
September 25th, 2006 at 12:03 pm #
anyway Jay!… I did not clearly understand wat you meant by \”where to locate it\”… it should be in your windows installation Drive if it\’s not your C drive then try the other drives.. as d:…etc. if you still cant find it though u have found the windows folder… then most probably something must have happened to the uninstallation information….
where at this point i am not really sure wat is wrong…..
if all your required files are in place.. then try to re-install wmp11 and then find the unsinstallation folder using the information in my earlier post!
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Andrea
September 26th, 2006 at 1:11 pm #
BIT-Stream, I\’m going to try your solution today. I\’ve had a very frustrating time with trying to get rid of Windows Media Player 11. I\’ve tried the instructions from Microsoft itself, which didn\’t work, and I\’ve also tried the other solutions on this site, yet I keep getting the message that I have a newer version installed, and can\’t install Windows Media Player 10.
The only other option I\’ve been able to find through my search is to get rid of SP2 in order to be able to take this thing off, but that means reinstalling Internet Explorer and a bunch of other things. I really hope it doesn\’t come to that, so here\’s to hoping your solution works! *crosses fingers* I\’ll check back and let you know.
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mombo
September 26th, 2006 at 2:05 pm #
I have gone through removing WMP 11, and WM Format Runtime 11, but when I get to the point that I need to remove MS User-Mode Driver Framework Feature Patch 1.0.0, and I click \”yes\” something pops up that says \”in clicking yes, you may have problems running these other applications\” including Adobe Photoshop, Palm OS, etc… I don\’t want to click yes just to have problems with all these other things then. What to do?
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aaron Reply:
June 9th, 2007 at 6:27 pm
i unstalled media 11.
i need to unstall. ms user-mode drive framework.
feature 1.0. it says is i remove this program.
i might have problems it gives me a bunch of programs. on my computer .can i remove this.
with out having. all of these problems.
with these other programs. please let me know.
something. aaron
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Data7o9
October 6th, 2006 at 3:12 pm #
Thanks for this tip. I have searched off and on ever since I have downloaded this useless excuse of a media player to uninstall it.
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acebase
October 21st, 2006 at 12:34 am #
do a search for spuninst.exe using windows search
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Andrew
October 21st, 2006 at 8:07 pm #
ok, ive tried a little bit of everything ive seen here
i tried to uninstall, restart, uninstall, restart, get rid of that file….didnt work
reinstalled, looked for those files, dont exist…back to square one…
nothing i do will get rid of wmp 11 enough so i can get 10 back on…help please?
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Bob H
November 8th, 2006 at 8:08 pm #
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I too am having problems getting rid of media 11. This is rediculous. Who on earth could have thought of such a thing. Neverhave I ever seen anything that I couldn\’t delete or un-install in some way or another. This thing doesn\’t let go…! Is there anything that has ever worked? Help please
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Dana
November 13th, 2006 at 7:57 am #
the Internet is so big, with no help in regards to wmp11. Why dos\’nt Microsoft hired real brains like you people. Thanks for your help.
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T
November 14th, 2006 at 8:55 am #
Problem !!!
Cannot roll back because uninstall folder are deleted
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
I accidentaly delete all files that is $NtUninstallwmp11 similiar.
I try reinstalling WMP11 but it did not create uninstall folder at all.
Help
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M. Oliver
November 17th, 2006 at 4:08 am #
i tried doin all tht, but it says rollback complete but it just messes up the media player and doesn\’t uninstall it, its really pissin me off lol
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mal
November 21st, 2006 at 2:48 pm #
im having problems uninstalling media player 11… ive follow the instrustions as above but in remove programs my media player isnt selected under windows XP updates its its own seperate thing. ive tried to simply remove it anyway but obviously it didnt work, otherwize i wouldnt be here, it keeps saying it cant delete it because the uninstall folder has already been deleted (or something like that) and i havnt deleted anything ive even tried reinstalling media player 11 to get this folder back but i still cant get…. can anyone help??
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teh pwn3r
December 3rd, 2006 at 9:37 pm #
This command actually removes it instead of rolling it back. i found it using a tweakUI app.
[code]C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe[/code]
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Ding
December 5th, 2006 at 3:09 am #
WMP 11 Is gone but cant uninstall IE7
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Hawk911
December 5th, 2006 at 5:30 pm #
I don\’t have those 2 updates- what now?
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Jay
December 6th, 2006 at 11:40 am #
in response to anyone who has deleted these two folders due to space
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$
&
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$
If you use have another machine or a friends machine and copy over its wmp11 uninstall folders then run the spuninst\\spuninst.exe in each of those folders it will get you back to wmp10 then i just ran the wmp10 install again to fix any unseen problems
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demas
December 11th, 2006 at 4:37 pm #
Thanks a lot finally I found out a solution to my problem guys.Thx a lot.
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BK
December 19th, 2006 at 12:35 am #
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$
or you will not be able to reinstall Windows Media 10
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scott
December 20th, 2006 at 10:15 pm #
I deleted the folders:
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$
and
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$
then I went in to control panel add/remove
and uninstalled mediaplayer 10 (not 11) which rolls it back to mediaplayer 9 and then reinstalled mediaplayer 10 (downloaded from a non microsoft site)
Worked like a charm
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Ello...
December 22nd, 2006 at 6:54 pm #
I am completely un tech savy. I went to completely uninstall 11. It says I need the eula.txt on the NT service Pack. I have no idea what to do from there.
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hmd
December 22nd, 2006 at 11:46 pm #
I DO NOT HAVE WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11 AND WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 11 RUNTIME IN THE SOFTWARE UPDATES SECTION .. PLEASE HELP ME WHAT DO I DO
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Patty
December 26th, 2006 at 8:58 am #
OH MY GOSH!!!!! Who in their right mind put media player 11 accessible to ANYONE yet?!?!? IT acts more like a VIRUS than a \’better\’ version! I typed song info on 1 song – only 1 song – the ONLY song I had listed under a certain artist. The program randomly pulled 13 songs from other artists and albums and put them all under this one artist, and made it an album! WHAT A MESS! anyone have any ideas on how to fix this before I just try the roll back option?! I tried to change one of THE FEW songs I knew to the correct info, but it still shows under this bogus album, and is NO LONGER listed in the correct place! I went into my add/remove and selected show updates as stated. I do not show any media player updates, HOWEVER, it DOES show 2 updates for yesterday (the day I \’upgraded\’ to 11). They are listed as a \’hot fix\’ and another as an \’XP media center edition.\’ Do I mess with either or both of these? HELP!
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Patty
December 26th, 2006 at 9:09 am #
… (added from Patty) I don\’t want to do ANYTHING else on a hunch – at this point, I think I have just made things worse so I am not doing anything else until someone with (more) experience with this stuff! This is all quite frustrating – I consider myself a quite computer-literate person, but this stuff is NUTS!
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Patty
December 26th, 2006 at 9:35 am #
did you lose any of your \’stuff\’ on media player? THAT is my BIG concern… we have quite an extensive library, and I don\’t even want to THINK about what would happen if/when I lost the whole thing… :confused:
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Phil
December 28th, 2006 at 6:12 pm #
I too can\’t get rid of WMP11 and roll back but after reading this post I suddenly realized that both my WMP11 and Windows Media Format Runtime 11 aren\’t listed under the \’Updates\’ section in Add/Remove Programs. They are listed as normal programs in that section. Could this be why I can\’t roll back?
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Ronald
December 31st, 2006 at 1:35 am #
Thanks for your advice,
But now an other promlem.
How do you remove the plug in player in Internet Explorer. I have dowloaded the player and it really sucks. I reversed the programm in order you told so. But eveytime I want to play a flim on the internet the plug in players pops up and there is no film to see. Whats the solution??????
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Brian
January 5th, 2007 at 4:19 am #
after updating to wmp 11 all videos now play with a red tint.
I tyred rolling back to wmp 10, but it\’s still red. I cant roll back to wmp 9 cuz wmp 10 is not showne on add/remove programs.
I also tryed system restore and its still red.
I\’ve even tryed other media players and they play red as well.
dose anyone know how to fix the red bug?
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L
January 5th, 2007 at 9:05 am #
God, thank you so much – I was so relieved when I saw a dialog box asking me if I wanted to roll back to my previous WMP version. Now I know where to go if I want to uninstall anything.
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Hoopla
January 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pm #
Thank you so much !
Merci beaucoup pour cette aide precieuse !
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Jay
January 7th, 2007 at 5:29 pm #
The only thing that worked for me was to run this
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
As suggested by [quote=BIT-stream]Hi.. all
if you fail to unisnatll wmp11 (rollback to the previous version of wmp) please try the following solution if all other solutions given above fails….. but note this might even take u back to wmp9 (original wmp that comes with winxp).. then u might need to re-install wmp10 again if that\’s what u want…
I tried every possible solution that was give in all the sites….. maybe there are even tools which i might have not come across… but the following worked for me… so i hope it will work for u too
GOTO ->
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
after the rollback is complete… a restart might be required… then afterwards…
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
again a reatart might be needed….
good luck all!
p.s. the reason behind unistalling wmp11 was not coz it was bad… coz i did not have any bad experience with it untill now when i got my nokia n91 the mplayer sync driver that came with the player did not work with wmp11… this is due to me upgrading wmp9(comes withg windows) directly to wmp11. i had to install wmp10 1st to make the driver work and then upgrade to wmp11… which fixed my problem…. but the latest wmp11 beta does not work at all with the syn driver anyway….[/quote]
THIS WORKS.
I tried everything for a couple days. Frustrating. Thanks this works.
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Jerry
January 16th, 2007 at 1:43 am #
Sometimes this does not work is there an alternate solution?
I mean i dont want to go into safe mode and delete everything
then go through the registry and remove all the WMP 11 values
Maybe there is another way….
Any help please.
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Jerry
January 16th, 2007 at 1:47 am #
sorry i missed the post above mine. Thanks anyway
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bextage
January 16th, 2007 at 7:46 am #
Thnx BIT STREAM !!!!
the method discribed by bit strea
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bextage
January 16th, 2007 at 7:50 am #
Thnx BIT STREAM !!!!
the method discribed by bit stream realy worked for me !
the remove/rollback to wmp10 didnt work for me, wmp11 would not remove from my system but with the method provided by bit stream i rolled back to wmp10
thnx a lot !!!!
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Niko
January 25th, 2007 at 10:56 pm #
Thanx BIT STREAM,
Thro\’ Control Panel I couldn\’t un-install WMP11. But your method rocks.
Niko
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ian
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:18 pm #
cool…it works…
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dan
February 2nd, 2007 at 12:50 am #
I only had one of those folders under windows.
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
Ran the exe, removed the files. But it doesn\’t matter is still can\’t install WMP 10. I still get that stupid media player 11 installed pop up.
I even removed the whole media player folder, that didn\’t work.
So where the hell are the rest of the WMP11 files and when is that stupid pop up that prevents me from installing WMP 10?
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Niko
February 3rd, 2007 at 11:31 pm #
dan,
If you do not have the following folders & files, try to [b]copy from another PC where these are available [/b]and then try t un-install WMP11 as per the following process:
Execeute:
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
after the rollback is complete… a restart might be required… then afterwards execute:
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
again a reatart might be needed….
Niko
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word up
February 5th, 2007 at 8:41 am #
Let me start off by saying thanks for posting these solutions. I\’m not tech savvy but can follow instructions. That being said, at the \”Once you have clicked on that scroll down till you see Windows XP – Software Updates.\” stage of the instructions, I don\’t get the same window that is showing (i.e. my WMP11 and WMF11 runtime) is above the windows xp software updates, not within the file as shown. what do I do?
word up
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vince
February 24th, 2007 at 10:29 am #
i have exactly the same problem as Ashey.. can someone help, pls?
[quote=Ashley]I have tried to uninstall the way you said, but it says that it has rolled back to the previous version succesfully but when I click on the icon for media player nothing happens and when I try to install media player 10 it says it cant because ther is a newer version on the computer, I have tried restarting and all that, but no matter how many times it says it rolled back the version nothing seems to change except I cant access the player without reinstalling media player 11.
I need media player 10 because 11 screws around with my iRiver MPC.[/quote]
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Scott
February 25th, 2007 at 11:30 am #
I believe I\’ve tried everything contained in the above postings but I still can\’t install the firmware upgrade on my Zen Vision M. Does anyone know if I can send it anywhere to have someone do it for me?
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Ramanathan
February 28th, 2007 at 7:33 am #
Very good post. I was actually looking for a way to do it.
BTW, thanks for visiting my blog and writing a review.
Would you like to exchange links?
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Kinta Puntae\'
March 2nd, 2007 at 5:29 pm #
[size=large][/size][size=medium][color=na[i][/i][b][/b]vy]I realize some computer retards will have problems with many facets of the new Windows package. I am advanced, so I know how to scroll through a program, learn it, and figure out what to do with the settings inolved. Saying that, I\’ve configured WP 11 to my needs and it works just great in my Dell. Now, if you just install it and expect it to do all these wonderful things without giving it any attention, then maybe you should just delete it. Because its a waste of your and its time. Ive found settings to address everything I neded in settting this baby up. Its actually the best version yet. I guess though simpletons should stick with the simpler versions. Peace zipperheads! LMAO, Punta-booo[/color][/size]
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Edmon
March 3rd, 2007 at 3:06 am #
people, please, help meeeeee
i have tried all ways of uninstalling WMP 11
it does not help
i don\’t know what to do
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ucro
March 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm #
OK, for those of u that don\’t \”see\” the
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
and
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
folders:
-open a Windows Explorer window
-go to Tools
-go to Folder Options
-click View
-enable Show hidden Files and Folders
-disable Hide protected operatings system files
-click Apply to all folders
-OK
Now u can execute both files in the order states above and follow the instructions of both files. Hope it helps.
Oh, and i recommend switching back the options above the way they were so u don\’t system files by mistake.
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Edmon
March 4th, 2007 at 3:03 am #
yessssssss, i did it
thank u all for your advices
i knew about the hidden folders but i did not think that this folder $NtUninstallWMFDist11$ could be hidden.
anyway, thanks a lot
i would ruther use the odler version
God damn WMP 11
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Marg
March 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am #
Thanks for solution to the media 11 uninstall.I thought I was stuck with it forever as I had tried & tried to get rid of it & not finding any help .Found this forum in search & intend to check in often. Got back media 10 & everything is A OK. Thank you….thank you.
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Hartley
March 9th, 2007 at 2:40 pm #
After you uninstall WMP11
Find & DL Windows Media Format 9 Runtime
run this program & it will give you back control of your MP3\’s
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Brian
March 10th, 2007 at 5:53 pm #
I\’ve tried everything except copying the files:
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
from another computer and then running them. Can anyone send me these files so i can try this or must I format my hard drive?
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Bill
March 19th, 2007 at 1:25 am #
[quote=BIT-stream]Hi.. all
if you fail to unisnatll wmp11 (rollback to the previous version of wmp) please try the following solution if all other solutions given above fails….. but note this might even take u back to wmp9 (original wmp that comes with winxp).. then u might need to re-install wmp10 again if that\’s what u want…
I tried every possible solution that was give in all the sites….. maybe there are even tools which i might have not come across… but the following worked for me… so i hope it will work for u too
GOTO ->
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
after the rollback is complete… a restart might be required… then afterwards…
C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe
again a reatart might be needed….
good luck all!
p.s. the reason behind unistalling wmp11 was not coz it was bad… coz i did not have any bad experience with it untill now when i got my nokia n91 the mplayer sync driver that came with the player did not work with wmp11… this is due to me upgrading wmp9(comes withg windows) directly to wmp11. i had to install wmp10 1st to make the driver work and then upgrade to wmp11… which fixed my problem…. but the latest wmp11 beta does not work at all with the syn driver anyway….[/quote]
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Bill
March 19th, 2007 at 1:26 am #
You hit right on the head…….Thank you very much…….
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Jason
March 20th, 2007 at 8:41 am #
I tried everything mentioned in this post and it hasn\’t worked. After running the
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
it gets to the Running Processes Before Uninstall and that is it. The buttons at the bottom stay ghosted and it stops.
Really pissing me off because I like media player for songs better than Real Player because it shows in your msn list for what you are listening to.
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Jeffe
March 20th, 2007 at 1:51 pm #
Thanks a lot, Jay.
Your method is really the best way to uninstall the WMP11 I found on the web.
I must try to install again the 9 or 10 version of WMP. But my PC is now very cleaned for the moment.
Best Regards,
JFF…
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March 23rd, 2007 at 5:30 am #
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Written by keith
Saturday, 17 June 2006
Technorati tags: uninstall windows media player 11, uninstall media player, uninstall internet explorer 7, uninstall software updates
Usually most of the software you install has an uninstall option in the program menu from where you can easily uninstall the software, but with some softwares like Windows Media Player 11 and Internet Explorer 7 it is not the case.
Recently one of my readers asked me how to uninstall the Windows Media Player 11, which in itself is not a straight forward task as it is does not have an uninstall option present unlinke most of the other softwares.
Performing the steps listed below you can remove any Windows Software updates that have been installed on your computer, including Internet Explorer 7 and any other updates.
Its a quite simple process and do this you will have to open the Add / remove program option from Control Panel.
Once you are in the Add / Remove Program section you will see a list of programs that have been installed on your computer.
In the top section of the Add / Remove program section you will see a small check box saying Show updates click on that as shown in the screen shot below.
Once you have clicked on that scroll down till you see Windows XP – Software Updates.
Under that remove anything that is related to the Windows media player 11 and you will have successfully uninstalled Windows Media Player 11.
You will also find the Internet Explorer Beta 7 and various other updates installed by Windows Update and uninstall it using the same steps.
technorati tags: uninstall windows media player 11 uninstall media player uninstall internet explorer 7 uninstall software updates media player 11 !
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thomas tompkins – MALE 2006-06-17 21:33:52
THANK FOR LETTING MEHOW TO UNINSTALL MEDIA PLAYER 1 I THINK IT SUCKS BECAKS IT SCREWS EVERYTHING UP
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Sony Joseph – I could Uninstall the annoying 2006-06-23 04:58:24
Hat\’s off To whoever found this solution….. to uninstall the Windows Media Player 11….. and Internet Explorer 7.
I racked my head for 3 days and searched many tech websites and forums but could not find the solution…. I may have skipped your website but today on 23rd June 2006…. I happened to see this and was thrilled…. Thanks buddy….
Regards,
Sony Joseph
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Techie – Hi Sony 2006-06-23 05:17:47
Great to know that you found a solution to your woes from this site.
I am glad to be of help.
Keep visiting back for more such interesting things.
Thanks
Techie
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Gerald 2006-07-20 15:19:12
yeahh i have the same exact problem as Ashley…sumone help pleeeez!
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Sid. Coates – Mr. 2006-07-08 02:38:35
Like the look of Windows Media Player 11 but soon found out it did not support my \”online stores\” and was therefore unable to download any music tracks. This is of course the BETA version so hopefully the full version will soon be out !
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scott 2006-07-08 15:46:48
Cool this is good stuff…for whatever reason pcmark05 doesnt like media player 11
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Howard 2006-07-08 19:59:36
Thanks for the help. Media Player 11 sucks!
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joedy – Failed 2006-07-09 10:59:36
Thanks for the find, but mine Fails to roll back… thanks MS…
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Techie – Glad to help 2006-07-09 23:27:46
Hi scott,
Thanks I hope to help in future too.
Howard,
Glad to be of some help to you.
Joedy,
Too sad you could not get rid of it, maybe I can help you if you want.
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Ashley 2006-07-10 00:58:09
I have tried to uninstall the way you said, but it says that it has rolled back to the previous version succesfully but when I click on the icon for media player nothing happens and when I try to install media player 10 it says it cant because ther is a newer version on the computer, I have tried restarting and all that, but no matter how many times it says it rolled back the version nothing seems to change except I cant access the player without reinstalling media player 11.
I need media player 10 because 11 screws around with my iRiver MPC.
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Sam K. – Everything is red
2006-07-23 10:55:02
Hi all,
I\’m hoping someone has an answer for my problem. Not the personal ones.
Ever since I installed media 11 my colors are all messed up. Everything is highly saturated with red. Even DVDs that I play via PowerDVD are overly red. Worth mentioning is that I never had a problem with version 10. Serves me right to try a beta from MS!
Like many here I\’ve tried to uninstall version 11 to no avail. My next step to start poking in the registry.
Any thoughs other than reinstall XP? Please…
Thank you.
Sam
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jordan 2006-07-26 16:25:59
thank you sooooo much….media player SUKS. had soo many problems. thank for the tip
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yolanda taylor – ms. 2006-07-26 14:20:01
i thought i was getting a good deal but i found out i was sooooooo.. wrong thank you very much for showing me how to get rid of this version i hope nobady else is as jumpy as me to get rid of thier 10 version.
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Rob Engley 2006-08-05 06:00:19
I tried for over two weeks to uninstall windows media 11 from my computer. I went to many different web sites to try to find out how to do this. On my own I found out the best way to do this is to go to safe mode. Once you are in safe mode you can go to my computer and then to C drive. Once there click programs and find windows media and delete it. You might also go to search and type in windows media and then delete what ever comes up there. People this really works just try it. If you have questions just write me and maybe I can help you through this.
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Bud 2006-08-07 15:06:58
FANTASTIC!!!! windows media 11 was about to drive me to compter mayhem. Thanks for your help in removing Media 11. I\’m sure when it is ready for the market it will be great like the media 10.
Thanks again, Bud
Be Blessed
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Suryakant – Thanks for the help. 2006-08-19 03:36:05
Thanks for the information to uninstall WMP11 with right screen shots.It works.
regards,
Suryakant Nayak
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Silent 2006-08-19 22:05:32
Hi Thanks so much, MP 11 really sucks and cause alot problems
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Steven 2006-07-21 04:39:32
This is what microsoft suggests:
Rolling back to a previous version of the Player
Windows Media Player is a feature of the Windows operating system and cannot be removed entirely. However, in Windows XP, you can roll back to the version of the Player that was previously on your computer.
You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to perform the following procedure.
what does that mean? Can I do that to be able to remove WMP11? I got to see the updates but after uninstalling the last one I still have the WMP 11 interface.
If I try unistalling backward in time it warns me that other programs – like my antivirus – may be affected! How reliable are these warnings? I already regret updating WMP butI don\’t want to mess the whole pc trying t oremove it! Thanks for any info you can spare ciao
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niki
March 23rd, 2007 at 5:34 am #
sorry for the long one before, somehow it copied the whole log: here was my message
\”You must be logged on as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group to perform the following procedure.\”
what does that mean? Can I do that to be able to remove WMP11? I got to see the updates but after uninstalling the last one I still have the WMP 11 interface.
If I try unistalling backward in time it warns me that other programs – like my antivirus – may be affected! How reliable are these warnings? I already regret updating WMP butI don\’t want to mess the whole pc trying t oremove it! Thanks for any info you can spare ciao
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RJT
March 29th, 2007 at 9:26 am #
Can one get ride of the new and come back with the old?
Meaning I would like to unistall WMP-11 and reinstall WMP-10. Can it be done?
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Suraj
April 13th, 2007 at 4:46 am #
[quote]Hi.. all
if you fail to unisnatll wmp11 (rollback to the previous version of wmp) please try the following solution if all other solutions given above fails….. but note this might even take u back to wmp9 (original wmp that comes with winxp).. then u might need to re-install wmp10 again if that\’s what u want…
I tried every possible solution that was give in all the sites….. maybe there are even tools which i might have not come across… but the following worked for me… so i hope it will work for u too
GOTO ->
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallwmp11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
after the rollback is complete… a restart might be required… then afterwards…
C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe
again a reatart might be needed….
good luck all!
p.s. the reason behind unistalling wmp11 was not coz it was bad… coz i did not have any bad experience with it untill now when i got my nokia n91 the mplayer sync driver that came with the player did not work with wmp11… this is due to me upgrading wmp9(comes withg windows) directly to wmp11. i had to install wmp10 1st to make the driver work and then upgrade to wmp11… which fixed my problem…. but the latest wmp11 beta does not work at all with the syn driver anyway….[/quote]
You are a Æ’ucking legend BIT-STREAM. Thanks alot!!!
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Sunny
April 14th, 2007 at 2:25 pm #
[quote=Gary][quote=Sam K.]Hi all,
I\’m hoping someone has an answer for my problem. Not the personal ones.
Ever since I installed media 11 my colors are all messed up.
Hi Sam,
Have you found a solution? I have the same problem. I haven\’t installed Media Player 11 tho… My red saturated issues only started after I updated my drivers for 7900GT. But I have exactly the same problem as you, red saturation in all video and not just in media player.
Drop me a line if you came right.
G out[/quote]
Im having the same problem all my video files are overly red and ive tried rolling back and downloading different codecs but the movies still appear to play red. I wasn\’t having this problem on my ati x300. But with my new 7900gs the videos all play red wondering if you two have found a solution to this.
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ris
May 8th, 2007 at 12:07 pm #
Fuckit, going to format c:
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Aehdan
May 26th, 2007 at 7:59 pm #
This is for XP, Windows Vista is a little different, any help for that?
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keith
May 26th, 2007 at 8:55 pm #
Hi Aehdan,
Sorry no help. I don’t use Windows Vista so cannot help you with that.
Keith
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Craig
June 23rd, 2007 at 10:50 am #
I did this and rolled back to Media Player 9 – and the same red tint problem was still there, that didn’t used to be there before WMP 11.
So for now, I just lowere the ’saturation’ way down, and increased bright, and it’s watchable, but not good.
The Hue item seems useless; whatever you set it to, it colors the video way too much that color.
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leo jeves
June 25th, 2007 at 2:26 am #
this comment is mainly towards sony joseph, might be fore but i did not read any.
To tell you the truth, this is on the microsoft page, the exact samething it tells us to do, why do people search tech sites on products, when you can just go to the product site and find a solution within like 5 min..
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Rishi
July 6th, 2007 at 9:25 am #
I never took pain to install it. I use and prefer VLC and it rocks. what do others think about it???
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Feniks79
July 12th, 2007 at 1:42 pm #
Hello, i tried all the solutions but i have not those directories for uninstall wmp11. I deleted them, i also have no possiblity to get them from another computer is any way to unistall this wmp sh**???
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Eli
August 16th, 2007 at 7:04 pm #
I’ve tried everything here, aside from the spuninst files, which I can’t find. This is becoming ridiculous. I love wmp 11, but my gigabeat s doesn’t work so hot on it. Wonder if throwing the pc out the window would work?
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Jimmy
September 16th, 2007 at 12:04 am #
I have become a slave to Microsoft. I have this on my machine and cant get it off, I feel so shackled
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gintosia
September 17th, 2007 at 12:41 pm #
okay, i think i will end up killing someone, because I have tried EVERYTHING that people suggested here and so far NOTHING worked.
at first, i tried to uninstall the player by checking ’show updates’ box in add/remove programs, but it didn’t work. then i tried using all those ‘C:\\WINDOWS\\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\\spuninst\\spuninst.exe’ and stuff, but it didn’t work either. it’s just every time after, so called uninstallation WMP11 doesn’t work, but I can’t install WMP10 either, because the pc says that there’s already a newer version of the player in the pc… So yeah, if anyone can really help me I would be more than grateful! Please please please please?
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cory
September 22nd, 2007 at 2:46 pm #
how do you go about uninstalling WMP 11 from windows vista?
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Symbian
September 26th, 2007 at 5:49 am #
Thanks for the help. This will help me to remove it and revert to version 10.
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Tarig
September 28th, 2007 at 12:14 am #
Hey Guys
whenever i want to install windows media i get this message
“The ordinal 65280 could not be located in the dynamic link library GDI32.dll.”
any ideas on how to resolve this?
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A. V. A.
October 27th, 2007 at 8:55 am #
Thanks a million. WMP leeches my MIDI card from Sibelius.
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Karen
October 30th, 2007 at 8:06 am #
THX! I successfully uninstalled Media Player 11. Before I reinstall, I searched under Program Files and found Windows Media Connect 2 folder empty plus Windows Media Player folder with empty subfolders Icons, Network Sharing, Sample Playlists and Visualizations and a Skins subfolder that has 2 (Compact and Revert) in it.
Is it necessary to delete these before I reinstall Media Player11?
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kirk
October 31st, 2007 at 2:32 pm #
cool. way to shoot down that monopolizing WMP 11. thanks!
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Rajiv
November 2nd, 2007 at 3:57 am #
I would like to raise a point here.
While you talk of Uninstalling..even installation of WMP and IE7 have been a problem for me..
during installation they needed to test my XP pack online to se whether it is genuine or not..Once they checked it to be ungenuine…i couldn’t install them……
Now ,knowing this….I would never think of installing them….WHy is Microsoft turning it’s back to us……..
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Niaz
November 6th, 2007 at 3:55 pm #
respected all
i have two problems
1)i have bought a new compaq laptop presario c559 and it has alredy windows vista installed on it.when i watch tv on internet it has problem in watching because it comes in pictures and not in movie form while my old pIII system shows the same in movie form
i hae adsl connection of interenet so no problem in that;
i want to uninstall vista and install xp,is it possible.
i have tried but when i boot from xp;it boots but after some process it says that there is no hard disk.
NOW IF THE PROBLEM OF MOVOE IS DUE TO WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER HOW I CAN UNISNSTALL IT BECAUSE ITS SHOWN IN CONTROL PANNEL
OR HOW I CAN REMOVE VIXTA AND INSTALL XP?PLEAZE HELP ME
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Kevin
December 22nd, 2007 at 12:31 pm #
This does not work in Windows Vista, all I know for sure is Windows Media Player 11 got screwed up real bad first time I ran it, now I would just like to remove this piece of **** from my system and either run a different version or use Media Player Classic. I don’t have Media Player 11 on my other computer and it plays all my files just fine somehow Media Player 11 is screwing up files even ones I play in other player programs, so I want it off my system, any thoughts?
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DAVID
December 31st, 2007 at 4:36 am #
OH MY GOD I STUMBLED UPON THIS MYSELF. IF YOU WANT TO COMPLETELY UNINSTALL WMP 11 OFF YOUR COMPUTER DO THIS.
OPEN REGEDIT AND GO TO
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\
YOU SHOULD SEE SOMETHING ON THE RIGHT PANE THAT SAYS
BlockUninstall which has a value of No
Change that to a Yes and it will unlock the option to completely uninstall WMP11 in Add/Remove Programs.
HOPE THIS HELPS YALL!! IT HELPED ME!!
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Mr. P
January 15th, 2008 at 10:24 pm #
For me, uninstalling Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger and the instant messenger was as easy as going to add/remove programs, add/remove windows components and then just uncheck the pesky applications and POOF! they gone forever!
Yup, my Windows version for some reason has the options to remove these built-in. SWEET!!!!
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ralph
February 8th, 2008 at 3:19 pm #
i did that procedure..but when i press Remove a window opens telling me to install it. And it’s already installed on my pc.. i really want to uninstall the wmp 11 coz it makes my pc slow. Need HELP!
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ou7l4w
February 10th, 2008 at 7:37 pm #
This does not work in Windows Vista, if anyone knows how to unistall Media Player in Vista please let me know
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ou7l4w
February 10th, 2008 at 9:15 pm #
I HAV FOUND A FIX FOR VISTA WMP11 REMOVAL
you have to delete the registry key in local machine….regedit, open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, then got to software. look for Microsoft, look for HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer………….. DELETE THE WHOLE REGISTRY KEY FOLDER then reboot, it should ask if you want to reinstall it….. that was my fix
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Gadgets4nowt
February 18th, 2008 at 7:01 pm #
It’s always good to see workarounds for Microsoft’s invasive product range.
I personally think Windows Media Player 11 if useful for music files but prefer VLC as an allrounder, so off to use the guide and unistall, thanks!
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Samuel
March 1st, 2008 at 12:33 am #
I have used your methos above. However, my computer is in Window Vista, and Window media player 11 and IE7 are not shown in add/remove programes of Control Panal! How can I uninstall them for Vista?
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kshitij
March 26th, 2008 at 12:06 pm #
i have a prob
i did method u say
but it does not roll back
i tried do from windows but it does not has d folder 2 remove windows 11
wot shud i do
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Brian
April 13th, 2008 at 5:20 pm #
Vista does not offer the view or the option you indictae, Your view is an XP view.
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Jaky
April 22nd, 2008 at 12:43 pm #
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alex
April 25th, 2008 at 5:13 pm #
lol hahaha, or you could just click on add or remove windows components and you can chose from a list of anything that you want to delete
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Komik Resimler
August 25th, 2008 at 10:04 am #
it’s very easy. thank you.
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Jingai
August 31st, 2008 at 9:22 am #
I’ve gotten rid of WMP 11, almost. Every time I restart, windows remakes the “Windows Media Player” folder in my program files. How do I stop this?
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Nick
October 14th, 2008 at 6:58 am #
it was really a simple step but i didn’t know it.
Thanks bro.
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Moiz
October 19th, 2008 at 12:51 pm #
I was so desperate to remove stupid Windows Media Player i never liked it thanks for removing it dude
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Speechless
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:46 am #
When I uninstall Windows Media Player by the Add/Remove programs it just rolled back to the previous wmp, it acts still the same cannot play anything. Is there a way to manually delete windows media player and all it components from your system?
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Gadgets4nowt
November 5th, 2008 at 2:36 pm #
The classic Windows Media Player isn’t too bad, can’t you just stick with that?
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Swarnendu
November 8th, 2008 at 2:36 pm #
Method 2: Run a program to remove Windows Media Player
1. Click Start, click Run, type %windir%\$ntUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe, and then click OK.
2. Click Next, and then click Finish.
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vishnu
December 21st, 2008 at 11:45 am #
hey it didn’t work.it dosen’t have a component called windows media player runtime…
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Charles
December 28th, 2008 at 9:59 pm #
I tried your procedure of first removing all WMP updates on the Add and Remove list, but it didn’t work. I wish it were that simple. I get a message saying the rollback is complete, then when I try and setup WMP 10, it tells me a more recent version of WMP player has been installed, and that the set up cannot continue.
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Tynstar666
January 17th, 2009 at 10:15 am #
I’m just pissed that once you get rid of WMP 11 theres no way to get rid of 9. I’m gunna have to switch to linux one of these days…
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OKami-Kairo
February 19th, 2009 at 5:49 am #
Oh my god!
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!
nobody on the whole internet had this info!
One more word.. I hade WMP11
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Xaroula
April 9th, 2009 at 2:05 am #
I see an army or people with the same problem.
I have windows xp pro sp1. My media player 10 had problems and it prompted me to fix it at the microsoft site. I did not read that the fix was for No11 so I downloaded it. I was running at the time firefox, i had to download a plugin in order to validate my windows. Validation came up that my region does no apply to the windows I was running. Off I went.
But then I could not install Media player No 10 as it was telling me I have a newer version. Well I actually never installed the No11 due to validation conflict that made no sense but I did not want to be bothered since I realized at the time that I should have sp2 which I don’t want at all costs.
Reading here I found on my C/ windows the $NtUninstallKB917734_WMP10$ and of course Nothing for the 11. I click on this and it told me that WP10 has been removed. Off I went to install it from scratch still the same msg I run a newer version…..
At my add/remove program is not there either.
I went to registry and delete all the values completely. Tried to install WMP10 still gives the msg that I have newer version.
I rebooted hoping it will prompt me to install… of course it did not since from the gazillion times I read it I knew I had the newer version …. only they don’t tell me where and how to shoot it to the Mars. Oh and all the deled values from the registry are back on… Geeeeeeeee
Can anyone help me pleaseeee…. prity please?
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Jordan
April 13th, 2009 at 2:10 pm #
What about on Windows Vista anyone?
I need rid off this crap program as its not working properly
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bart
June 7th, 2009 at 2:29 pm #
How can I uninstall WMP from Vista? in my case, when I select show updates there’re only a few updates of adobe rider and that’s it. What shall I do? help!!
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Miya
June 13th, 2009 at 1:51 am #
Yeah, I wish. I don’t have it under add or remove programs, and I cannot delete the files from their location. It states I need ‘permission’ and such things, despite my being the administrator and owner of the computer. Neither will it work properly or be ‘fixed’ – playing and codec.
Any chance of help? I’d prefer not to have to go through drama of wiping my driver.
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okn0tok
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:33 am #
thank god! I’ve been grappling with this stupid thing forever and couldnt update music om my dell dj for months
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helenna
July 29th, 2009 at 8:36 am #
great tip , i was looking for a way to remove WMP since a long time, thanks a lot
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devildoll Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 5:07 am
how have you managed to delete wmp 11 from vista ? as I cannot find a way
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it support London
August 21st, 2009 at 4:54 am #
I’m not sure why you would want to remove media player 11 it is much better than all of the previous versions. That said I had always wondered how to get rid of IE7.
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devildoll Reply:
August 29th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Please help I have vista and I have wmp 11 … I need to uninstall it as it has something in it causing me problems with my creative vision m mp3 player so i need to do it but cant find out how
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rona
September 6th, 2009 at 11:20 pm #
please.. can someone send me the C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallwmp11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe and the C:\WINDOWS\$NtUninstallWMFDist11$\spuninst\spuninst.exe too?
please..please.. none of my friends have that folders on their computer..
i’ll reallyappreciate the help.
here’s my email
rona_gabaldon@yahoo.com
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Alds Reply:
September 23rd, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Try to re-install wmp11, that should fix your problem.
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Alex B
September 21st, 2009 at 5:16 am #
Yeah, um I actually wanted to know how to uninstall in not revert to a previous version or update. I want to use windows mediaplayer 9 because It will let you fastforward anything despite codecs, 11 doesn’t and I can’t install 9 because windows says I already have 11.
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