Manually remove media player 11

The steps below will not work in Windows Media Player Thanks, Marilyn. In reply to Marilyn O's post on April 3, This doesn't uninstall it and remove it from the hard drive does it? It has made multiple copies of my music and now takes up a huge amount so I would like to remove it forever. In reply to samihhazimeh's post on July 5, Hi Samih, We are sorry for the delay in response. You can 'turn off' Windows Media Player by following the steps below: 1.

Click on Start and select Control Panel. Select Programs and Features. Select Turn Windows features on or off. Expand Media Features. So, without waiting any further, let me show the steps to uninstall or disable Windows Media Player in Windows Windows Media Player is installed as an optional feature. So, all we have to do is uninstall it from the OpLtional Features page in the Settings app.

This action will take you to the optional features page. It can take a couple of seconds to load the installed optional features list. This article will outline the different methods and the steps to remove Windows Media Player Most software programs installed on your PC will have an Uninstall option in the program menu, from where you can easily uninstall the software. Windows Media Player cannot be completely removed on all versions of Windows OS as it is a feature built into the operating system in some versions like Windows vista and Windows 7.

However, depending upon the version of the media player and Windows OS that you are using on the computer, you might be able to roll back to a previous version of the player installed on the computer. However, the roll back procedure varies depending upon the version of the Player used. Before proceeding to uninstall WMP 11, make sure that you have logged into Windows XP as an administrator or a member of the Administrators group.

This is necessitated by the fact that one should have administrative privileges to uninstall Windows Media Player 11 in Windows XP. That is all! Did you mean:. Last reply by dbramlet Unsolved. I've managed to destroy Media Player 11 - how to re-install? In cleaning up my hard drive trying to get rid of AOL, I have done something nasty to Windows Media Player 11 so that, no matter what I ask it to play, it says "Windows Media Player cannot play the file.

The Player might not support the file type or might not support the codec that was used to compress the file. I tried uninstalling MP11 but Windows said it would roll back to version 10 and I'd already deleted that so it couldn't roll back and wouldn't let me uninstall MP I downloaded a file of new codecs from the Microsoft website but that file said it was incompatible with MP11 and then said it was successfully installed - one of those messages had to be wrong!

So I downloaded MP11 from Microsoft and did an express install which it said worked OK but it still won't play anything. I also downloaded and installed the latest drivers for my sound card SoundBlaster Live.

Yup - I confess that I made this mess myself but can someone please tell me how to fix it beyond reformatting my C drive and starting again, please? My guess is that I have fouled up my registry but, as system restore has never worked on my computer, there's not a lot I can do about that. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic.

Replies How about a system restore back to a date before you did this? If you change them correctly you would need to reboot most likely. Select microsoft windows and then select custom.