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1. WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SETUP INSTALL
2. WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SETUP UPDATE
3. WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SETUP SOFTWARE

Click the Finish button and continue to set up your new version of WMP. It will fail, but the player will still work. VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Launch WMP 11: You need to deliberately to fail WGA validation! Launch the new version of Windows Media Player and click the Validate button. Simply deleting it gets tangled up in System Restore which tries to reinstate it.

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out the new Media Player for Windows 11 to all Windows Insiders in the Dev Channel.

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SETUP UPDATE

When it finishes, you may get a notification that the installation failed. UPDATE 2/3 We have released the new Media Player for Windows 11 to Windows Insiders in the Beta Channel. Then check the Windows Media Player and play your media files. WMP will download a small 1Mb stub installer, to begin downloading WMP 11 proper. Lastly, restart your computer and go to the Media Features list.

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SETUP INSTALL

However it is possible to install WMP 11 on Windows XP without requiring WGA validation (assuming you have WMP 9 or version 10 as a base for dll’s and codecs).ĭownload and Install: you can download version 11 from the Microsoft web site, or launch your existing version of WMP (9 or 10) and from the Tools menu, select Check for Updates. Unfortunately, separately upgradable items such as Internet Explorer 7 and Windows Media Player 11 came with their own WGA landmine inside.

WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER 9 SETUP SOFTWARE

It was foisted on most of us through Windows Update and thrust its’ grubby tentacles deep into the Windows system software stack and I refused to have anything to do with it as, frankly, dealing with Microsoft for re-validation is a waste of my time and energy I can do without. The only safe way to have it is to install a Windows XP on another machine. Windows Media Player 9 has already been removed on the Download Center and there's no safe download link for it anymore. The reason? WGA.Īs far back as 2007, Microsoft’s anti-piracy measure known as Windows Genuine Advantage caused more trouble than it was worth. Windows Media Player is the pre-built Media Player of the Windows operating system. One problem the luxury item of Windows Media Player 12 isn’t available for XP and 11 won’t play. Believe me two years is a good age for an XP install (about fourteen measured in dog years). You should contact Microsoft to give them well-deserved grief if legitimately-licensed software does not properly validate.įor the first time in two years, I’ve had to rebuild my Windows XP machine (now virtualised) in order to keep running a couple of items of legacy software. First, a disclaimer: the process described is for trouble-shooting purposes only.