subject: How to Uninstall Windows Media Player Completely [print this page] How to Uninstall Windows Media Player Completely
Have you ever been disturbed that the windows media player cannot play image and songs smoothly? In fact, compared with other computer players, such software does not support certain formats like avi unless you install a separate decoder. Besides, it takes up excessive resources in your system. That is why nowadays many users are inclined to uninstall such player.
However, it is not an easy job for some users to uninstall WMP perfectly. So, at first I pay much attention to how to install such software in order to get better understanding of how to uninstall it.
The process as follows:
Start > run, then input C:WINDOWS$NtUninstallWMFDist11 $spuninstspuninst.exe and C:WINDOWS$NtUninstallwmp11 $spuninstspuninst.exe
Then your windows media player will be restored to the former state.
The following method may offer some help for you to uninstall windows media player perfectly.
First of all, you can create a new point of restoration for your system in case of operation errors.
Then Click Start > Run, type rund1132.exe adadvpack.dll, LaunchINFSection%windir%infwmp10.inf,DefaultUninstall, and click "Enter", then a progress window will pop up. If you are prompted by a dialog box that wmdbind.dll cannot be found (Microsoft deliberately prevents users from installing the program), on such occasion, you can copy wmpbind.dll in the folder of windows media player to the catalog of inf in windows. Or you can name wmpbind.dll to be wmdbind.dll. Then the dialog box will be gone, then click on "browse" button and select the folder of "windows media player". In the end, We are done here.
And the computer will remind you to restart. After restarting your computer and rerunning windows media player, you will find it is windows media player 9 running. If you are prompted that it was not properly installed, you can download WMP9 install program from Microsoft official website. And, there will be no prompt box saying there is advanced version available.
Then click Start > Run, type in "regsvr32 jscript.dll" and enter. Then type "regsvr32 vbscript.dll" and enter. It is a slow process of executing jscript.dll and vbscript.dll. You will be able to uninstall WMP perfectly.
If you have done all the above steps correctly, you can uninstall windows media player perfectly. If not, you can click here to download a powerfull uninstall software. It will help you uninstall unwanted programs or software.
