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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: rdegenna on 2 September 2003, 06:48
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Our tech support people installed office xp on my computer without my permission. With it came media player 9. I haven't gone through the setup routine, but it's on the hard drive.
Is there a way to get rid of it so that I can go back to something less intrusive, like ver 6?
If you have any ideas, please email me at [email protected]
Thanks.
Ray
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Nope you are pretty much screwed. Thanks go to microsoft for violating their own rule about how applications should have their own uninstaller.
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There is Media Player Classic (http://216.239.53.104/search?q=cache:U6wdHOyAHFgJ:www.gabest.org/mpc.php+Media+Player+classic&hl=en&ie=UTF-8) the look of 6.x but can do more modern things and play any video that has a codec for it (WMP 7-9, Divx, xviD, Quicktime etc..) as well as DVD, VCD... :-P
site is being re-done, link is a Google Cache (download at sf.net)
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Only way that I know of is to use the System Restore feature to rollback the PC. It's supposed to create a restore point when it's installed, unless your tech people told it not to.
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short answer: you can't. this is the stock answer for many microsoft related problems. in fact...
http://belg88.com/faqman/index.php?op=view&t=66 (http://belg88.com/faqman/index.php?op=view&t=66)
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rdegenna: Our tech support people installed office xp on my computer without my permission. With it came media player 9. I haven't gone through the setup routine, but it's on the hard drive.
It's best to never call tech support people ever again. The only things there good for is trashing your computer by installing crappy software like Download Accelerator Plus, Office XP, etc.
It's best to solve stuff yourself and ask your friends how to do things.
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My favorite is winamp2 , more stable then winamp3 same features doesnt load like 30secs it loads like 1 sec GEtt it!
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Originally posted by rdegenna:
Our tech support people installed office xp on my computer without my permission. With it came media player 9. I haven't gone through the setup routine, but it's on the hard drive.
Is there a way to get rid of it so that I can go back to something less intrusive, like ver 6?
If you have any ideas, please email me at [email protected]
Thanks.
Ray
Download this (http://knoppix.net) and boot it every time you want to use your work computer. ;) Just make sure you have Windows installed to a FAT32 partition rather than an NTFS one as Linux has trouble writing to NTFS...
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http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/crawford/02december09.asp (http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/expertzone/columns/crawford/02december09.asp)
It's not difficult to remove Windows Media Player 9 Series as long as you plan ahead. Before installing Media Player 9 Series, use System Restore and create a restore point. Here's how you do it:
1. Click Start, and then click Help and Support.
2. Under Pick a task, click Undo changes to your computer with System Restore.
3. Click Create a restore point.
4. In the Restore point description box, provide a name for the restore point, as shown in Figure 1 below. Windows XP will automatically add the date and time to the name.
5. Click Create.
Figure 1
Install Windows Media Player 9 Series and should you become disillusioned with it (and I'm betting you won't) you can return your computer to that restore point. Just return to the System Restore entry in Help and Support. Click Restore my computer to an earlier time, and then click the restore point you created, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2
Windows Media Player 9 Series is removed and the previous version of the Player is restored. Any CD tracks copied to your computer will remain, and the previous version of Windows Media Player will be able to play this audio content.