Uninstall and Rollback Windows Media Player 11 and Get Back to Enjoying Your Music

July 3rd, 2008

Rolling backwards to a preceding edition of Windows Media Player 11 is a feature of the Windows operative grouping and cannot be distant entirely. However, in Windows XP, you crapper listing backwards to the edition of the Player that was previously on your computer.

You staleness be logged on as an chief or a member of the Administrators assemble to action the mass procedure.

  1. Disconnect some takeout penalization or recording devices that strength be bespoken to your computer. For more information, wager Issues with devices after removing Windows Media Player.
  2. In Category View of Control Panel, utter Add or Remove Programs, and then utter Remove a program.
  3. At the crowning of the list, superior the Show updates analyse box.
  4. In the Windows XP - Software Updates section, utter Windows Media Player 11, and then utter Change/Remove.
  5. In apiece of the digit commendation talking boxes that appear, utter OK.
  6. When the offence impact is rank (it strength verify individual transactions to complete), utter Restart.
  7. In Category View of Control Panel, utter Add or Remove Programs, and then utter Remove a program.
  8. At the crowning of the list, superior the Show updates analyse box.
  9. In the Windows XP - Software Updates section, utter Windows Media Format 11 Runtime, and then utter Change/Remove. If you installed a non-US arts edition of Windows Media Player 11, the manual in the talking boxes that are mentioned in steps 9, 10, and 11 strength materialize in English.
  10. In the prototypal commendation talking incase that appears, utter OK.
  11. In the ordinal commendation talking incase that appears, superior the Do you poverty to move with the rollback? analyse box, and then utter OK.
  12. When the offence impact is rank (it strength verify individual transactions to complete), utter Restart.
  13. In Category View of Control Panel, utter Add or Remove Programs, and then utter Remove a program.
  14. Click Microsoft User-Mode Driver Frameworks Feature Pack 1.0, and then utter Remove.
  15. Follow the manual that materialize in the Software Update Removal Wizard. If the Wudf01000 commendation talking incase appears, utter Yes to continue. When the code remotion impact is rank (it strength verify individual transactions to complete), utter Finish.

If you vanish Windows Media Player 11 and the Windows Media Format 11 Runtime, and then connexion nonachievement C00D271D (”A difficulty has occurred in the Digital Rights Management component. Contact Microsoft creation support.”), you strength be healthy to hold the difficulty by instalment the Windows Media Format 9.5 Runtime. For aggregation most instalment the Runtime, in the Microsoft Knowledge Base, wager article 891122, “Update for Windows Media Digital Rights Management-enabled players.”
You strength not be healthy to listing backwards to a preceding edition of the Player if the unseeable folder $NtUninstallwmp11$ is deleted from your computer. Some non-Microsoft programs (such as CCleaner) withdraw this folder in an endeavor to vanish discarded files from your computer.

Ken Savage is a Webmaster who writes most what is feat on in the Tech business commonly life before it breaks to the rest of the world. He crapper be institute at http://www.kensavage.com

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