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Windows Media Player uninstall - how?
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A friend (hah!) sent me a file in Windows Media Player format that he said I "just had to see". I tried to get him to convert it to QuickTime, but he thought I should have WMP around. So, I installed it, watched the video, and now I want to uninstall WMP. Seems like the installer said that it was installing 95 files, but I can only find 7 or 8 that I can identify for sure as having been spawned by WMP. Anybody have any clue where the other 85-odd files are hiding, and/or how I can safely uninstall WMP?
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some programs have an uninstaller option in the installer program. run the installer again and see if it gives you that option.
if you can't get it uninstalled, I wouldn't worry. it is benign enough.
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Nope, already checked for an uninstaller. My Windows friend said that since Windows itself features an "Add/Remove Program" option, most Windows apps don't have their own uninstaller, and that since WMP is a Microsoft product, it probably follows that standard - which means that us Mac users don't get an uninstall option.
The reason I'm worried is that the installer said that it was installing 95 files, yet I can only find 9 files that look like they came from the WMP install. Since I don't know where those missing 86 files are, I don't know what they're doing. Although my latest theory is this - I noticed one of the files is a jar file, so maybe it has 86 files archived inside of it? I'll have to see if I can remember how to open a jar file...
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Originally posted by Sword of Orion:
Nope, already checked for an uninstaller. My Windows friend said that since Windows itself features an "Add/Remove Program" option, most Windows apps don't have their own uninstaller, and that since WMP is a Microsoft product, it probably follows that standard - which means that us Mac users don't get an uninstall option.
The reason I'm worried is that the installer said that it was installing 95 files, yet I can only find 9 files that look like they came from the WMP install. Since I don't know where those missing 86 files are, I don't know what they're doing. Although my latest theory is this - I noticed one of the files is a jar file, so maybe it has 86 files archived inside of it? I'll have to see if I can remember how to open a jar file...
If you're using OS X, delete the Media Player app in /Applications, and the Windows Media Plugin folder in /Library/Internet Plug-ins. That's it.
Under OS 9, there's a lot of junk installed all over the place...I'm afraid I can't help you there.
-spheric*
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Check the preferences folder in your system folder. Use Sherlock to locate remaining WMP files.
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Spheric Harlot - I put it on my OS 9 disk because I didn't want to install anything that I might want to "clean up" on my X disk. Sounds like I should have put it on the X disk!
Fredo - I've already scrubbed the preferences folder, and I've tried every trick in the Sherlock book to find WMP files. (searching for "WMP", "Windows", "Media", "Player", etc...) I just can't find 95 of them. I was suspecting that there would be some invisible files, but I didn't find any.
Thanks for the suggestions!
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