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    Windows Media Player Trouble

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by RWUK, Oct 31, 2009.

  1. RWUK

    RWUK Notebook Evangelist

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    :mad:

    So my dumba$$ brother got hold of my laptop today when I was gone and installed Windows Media Player on it. I've been in perfect harmony using Winamp and Media Player Classic for all my audio and video needs and purposely didn't want WMP installed and trying to 'update' itself every day or whatever.

    Am I stuck with it unless I reinstall Vista?

    And some more :mad: :mad: faces cause this really pisses me off!

    Thanks for the help.
     
    RWUK, Oct 31, 2009
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  2. yay

    yay Notebook Consultant

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    Change your default application to whatever player you want. Right click the file, go down to properties and change your player to whatever you were happy with before.
     
    yay, Oct 31, 2009
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  3. Imperfect1

    Imperfect1 Notebook Evangelist

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    And maybe put a password on your laptop! ;)
     
    Imperfect1, Nov 1, 2009
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Media Player doesn't try to update itself "every day" - if it does something is wrong.
    Its also a perfectly useable ad good media player - audio quality isn't perfect somehow though :(

    But everybody to his, her on.
     
    DetlevCM, Nov 1, 2009
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  5. RWUK

    RWUK Notebook Evangelist

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    Yeah I reset the file extensions to play in what I want to see them in. Also told the firewall to not let WMP do anything so I guess that's as good as it will get for now.

    Password?? haha. Simple yet brilliant!
     
    RWUK, Nov 1, 2009
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  6. swarmer

    swarmer beep beep

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    That won't help, because Vista comes with WMP, and it always has, and there's no supported way to uninstall it. So... whatever you originally did to uninstall it, you could do that again.

    But... I wouldn't bother. If you just never run it, then it just sits on the disk unused and doesn't affect you. If it gets updated, who cares?
     
    swarmer, Nov 1, 2009
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