Destroying WMP

I was wondering about this, Can u get rid of Windows Media Player??? I have had several people tell me u can(unfortunately they don't know how) and i have had sites(especially MS) tell me you can't get rid of it.... personally despise WMP, for my own personal reasons(we're not going into that) but I was just curious. It should be possible, it's just like any other program/software on you computer

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ya know; you should'nt really remove WMP alltogether. It's better to get another program to play music and stuff on and just forget about WMP. If something ever happens to your program; you can endure WMP and listen to some of your music.

You can just delete the desktop icons and program folders in the start list and just forget it's there.

And you are able to change your default settings to stop it from opening anything inside it. Unfortunately, I use WMP for my music, it works better in my opinion than Winamp. That's my opinion, though.

Originally Posted by Lozzie

And you are able to change your default settings to stop it from opening anything inside it. Unfortunately, I use WMP for my music, it works better in my opinion than Winamp. That's my opinion, though.

Use ITunes, seriously. Nothing beats the Partyshuffle option.


But if you deleted WMP now you might have to download it later again because you wan't to play a file on the internet which is only streamed in WMFormat.

You could try manually deleting the files and setting up another music player, such as iTunes, Winamp or Realplayer (though I don't reccommend that one too highly).

I use WMP as my default media player because it doesn't seem to do a lot that I don't like. It has a decent library interface as well as good equalizer modes; the look and style don't hurt it either. I'm happy with it.

If you REALLY want to get rid of it, you may be able to install an old version of WMP (from the Microsoft website) over the current one (9 or 10, whichever you have). It might work.

Originally Posted by Nictel

Use ITunes, seriously. Nothing beats the Partyshuffle option.


But if you deleted WMP now you might have to download it later again because you wan't to play a file on the internet which is only streamed in WMFormat.

Yep Yeap, thats what i have now and I liek ti a lot better than WMP, it's more friendly to me. The main reason WMP is becoming such a burden and hassle is that it plays everything that i want to listen to, and it'll freeze up after about 1 min of playin and then ihave to restart compter, blah blah and so on.

Does anyone know how to set it so iTunes plays all media files(music,movies,everything else )

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I use WMP above I-Tunes, Real and Quicktime. Reason, it is a lot better to use, it has more features and i can sync it direct to my Creative player and send my playlist over from WMP to the Creative.

Does anyone know how to set it so iTunes plays all media files(music,movies,everything else )

1. Go into My Computer, then tools->folder options.
2. Select the tab that says "File Types", up should come a box with all the different file types on your machine and which programs are used to launch them.
3. Find a list entry with the WMP file logo and click on it, the change button should activate. Click on the change button and up should come a window with a list of applications, choose iTunes and select OK. In the list the logo should change to the iTunes logo.
4. Repeat step 3 for all entries with the WMP logo.
5. Press OK.

Now when you click on a movie file, music file etc iTunes should open. This is how you change any file launcher in Windows (hope that made sense ).

Originally Posted by Demma10

1. Go into My Computer, then tools->folder options.
2. Select the tab that says "File Types", up should come a box with all the different file types on your machine and which programs are used to launch them.
3. Find a list entry with the WMP file logo and click on it, the change button should activate. Click on the change button and up should come a window with a list of applications, choose iTunes and select OK. In the list the logo should change to the iTunes logo.
4. Repeat step 3 for all entries with the WMP logo.
5. Press OK.

Now when you click on a movie file, music file etc iTunes should open. This is how you change any file launcher in Windows (hope that made sense ).

Hmm...Thanks, i was wondering if anyone was ever going to respond to that question

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