Now that I've got iTunes for music and DivX for movies, I dont really need Media Player anymore (I think). But how do I get rid of it? I cant find it in the 'Add/Remove programs' list. There is something called Viewpoint Player in the list with an icon like WMP....is that what I remove??
2006-08-12 02:27:31 · 13 answers · asked by Wildhoney 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
go to control panel and then add/remove windows components. there you will find media player. clear the box and hey its gone.
2006-08-12 02:35:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Errrrmmmmmm, probably download a windows media player 10 installation, then install over 11, then if that works, do it backwards to 9. I dont think theres a way of fully getting the whole WMP off for good. If you wanna use summin else, probably right click on an mp3 file, click on properties. Next to the program, click change then double click on the other media player. Or you could look in the other media player's options (or preferences) area and see if theres something to do with shell extensions, associating with files, windows integration etc.
2016-03-26 22:55:37 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure which Windows you are running, but if you go to your control panel, on the left side should be a selection that says add/remove windows applications. Another window should pop up and you should be able to find Windows Media Player there and uninstall it that way.
2006-08-12 02:35:28 · answer #3 · answered by Almondeyez1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you downloaded the new media 11 player, then you will have to `click start`, click on `control panel`, click on `add or remove`,
click the box `show updates`, click on `Windows XP - software update` find windows media player 11 and delete it :-)
This will also work for windows media player 10 :-)
But, why remove it?
2006-08-12 02:37:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go into 'My Computer' and sort through your folders until you find where Windows Media Player is installed. (usually C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player). Delete the folder if you can't find an uninstall icon.
2006-08-12 02:35:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i guess windows media player is setup as your default player tht is why it is bugging u ...do this open my documents-click tools - folder option -file types- select the movie files format ( for eg-.mpg ,mpeg ,dat avi etc) and associate it with the required programme sucha as divX etc.
otherwise u cannot uninstall the windows media player because it is a built in software tht comes with windows.
2006-08-12 02:35:36 · answer #6 · answered by asslko 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
go to start...control panel...click on add remove programs and then click windows media player and that should remove it
2006-08-12 02:36:07 · answer #7 · answered by matt D 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think you can't uninstall WMP, think it's a regular part of Windows... Someone told me that recently, but I'm not sure...
2006-08-12 02:34:39 · answer #8 · answered by Jasna 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to start and find windows media player and click uninstall.
2006-08-12 02:29:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
goto add/remove program in control panel
select add/remove windows components
remove it from there
hope this helps
2006-08-14 03:02:00 · answer #10 · answered by jarrajackie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋