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Title: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: chillinoutz on September 04, 2006, 03:18:47 PM

 :-/My computer initially comes with a WMP 10, how do i downgrade it to windows media player 9 cause i hate the WMP 10.  :'(

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: soybean on September 04, 2006, 03:50:31 PM

Take a look in your Add or Remove Programs panel.  If WMP 10 is there, and it should be, then remove it.  That should take you back to the previous version.  If it takes you back to pre-WMP 9, then you'll have to download and install WMP 9.

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: chillinoutz on September 04, 2006, 03:55:12 PM

No, it's not in the add or remove programs, and everytime i try to install wm9; it will say that i already have an newer version of it. Therefore it won't let me install the older version of it. :'(

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: Dusty on September 04, 2006, 04:08:15 PM

This from another forum...

"In the Add/Remove Programs screen, click on Show
Updates.  

Then WMP10 will show .. you can roll back
to v9"

Might not work but worth a try.

Good luck

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: GX1_Man on September 04, 2006, 04:21:52 PM

And if not, then it's time to format and reinstall.  ;)

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: Dusty on September 04, 2006, 04:46:14 PM

Repair install maybe, but format :-?

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: chillinoutz on September 04, 2006, 05:00:02 PM

:car: Thanks everyon, especially dusty for the rollback theory. I am back to WMP 9  8-)


p.s

"Formating your computer for a media player, that is the funniest thing i heard today"

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: Dusty on September 04, 2006, 08:48:21 PM

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:car: Thanks everyon, especially dusty for the rollback [highlight]theory.[/highlight] I am back to WMP 9  8-)

For the sake of others who may be in the same position re Wmp 10 please come back and tell us if the rollback instructions I gave you actually worked or did you achieve the rollback by some other method :-?.

Thanks

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: GX1_Man on September 04, 2006, 08:59:22 PM

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"Formating your computer for a media player, that is the funniest thing i heard today"

Microsoft makes you do strange things. Try to get an earlier version of Direct X, or WMP 11, in some cases.  ::)

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: soybean on September 05, 2006, 08:41:49 AM

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:car: Thanks everyon, especially dusty for the rollback [highlight]theory.[/highlight] I am back to WMP 9  8-)

For the sake of others who may be in the same position re Wmp 10 please come back and tell us if the rollback instructions I gave you actually worked or did you achieve the rollback by some other method :-?.

Thanks

Is there something different from your procedure, other than checking the box in Add or Remove Programs to Show Updates, that I suggested in reply#1?

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: chillinoutz on September 05, 2006, 11:56:10 AM

For the sake of others who may be in the same position re Wmp 10 please come back and tell us if the rollback instructions I gave you actually worked or did you achieve the rollback by some other method :-?.

Thanks[/quote]

Yes, the rollback instructions u gave me did work, i just uninstall the WMP  after checking the show updates. And then installed the WMP 9 setup that pops up after uninstallation.

Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: Dusty on September 05, 2006, 05:03:31 PM

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:car: Thanks everyon, especially dusty for the rollback [highlight]theory.[/highlight] I am back to WMP 9  8-)

For the sake of others who may be in the same position re Wmp 10 please come back and tell us if the rollback instructions I gave you actually worked or did you achieve the rollback by some other method :-?.

Thanks

Is there something different from your procedure, other than checking the box in Add or Remove Programs to Show Updates, that I suggested in reply#1?

I don't think so.  My purpose in questioning Chillinoutz about how he achieved the removal of Wmp10 was only to clarify his use of "[highlight]Rollback theory[/highlight]".. and ensure that the instructions actually worked.

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Title: Re: How to downgrade Windows media player 10
Post by: Dusty on September 05, 2006, 05:05:33 PM

Chillinoutz - many thanks for coming back with your clarification

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