For some reason my default media player is Real Player, can I change it to Windows Media Player.?

Question

Windows Media Player used to be my default and I dont know what happened.

Answer 1

Go to start, then set program access and defaults, click on custom, then click on Windows Media Player as your default media player. No need to unistall the Real Player. You can still use it if you want.

Answer 2

You can open media player and go to the settings and make it default player. Another way is to reinstall Media Player and just apply it as default player.

Answer 3

The complete answer:

On the Start Menu, there's an option called "Set Program Access and Defaults".

This option allows you to set your preferred internet browser, e-mail program, media player, instant messenger, and Java virtual machine. You could either select "Microsoft" to set all your defaults back to Microsoft programs, or you could select "Custom", drill down, and select "Windows Media Player".

Answer 4

OPen windows media player.

File/Options
Click the "File types" tab.
Check each file type you want WMP to be the default player for.


As an aside, Real player was made the default for these files when you installed it.

Answer 5

Go to program Access and defaults (Start Menu) and set the media player to WMP.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Start>
Control Panel>
Add/Remove Programs>
Then Find Real Player and take it off.

That's the easiest way I can think of.

~Brendon
Hope I helped!