MCE: Help Installing Windows Media Player 11 Beta
As I noted Wednesday, the beta for Windows Media Player 11 was released this week. I've found out that if you are running Windows Media Center 2002 you have to have update rollup 2 installed or you will get an 'Unsupported Operating System' message when you try and install WMP 11.
Aaron Stebner posted today that some 3rd party apps will change a registry setting so that even if you do have rollup 2 installed you'll get the unsupported message. Fortunately Aaron also posted a fix for this:
- Go to Add/Remove Programs, check the box labeled Show updates, scroll to the bottom, and verify that Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 is listed
- Launch Media Center, go to Settings | General | About Media Center | Software Version and verify that the version number is greater than or equal to 5.1.2715.2732 and that Update Rollup 2 is listed there
- Go to %windir%\ehome and verify that the version number of ehshell.exe is greater than or equal to 5.1.2715.2732
Once you have verified that Update Rollup 2 truly is installed on your system, you can modify the registry key that WMP 11 setup uses to the detect Windows Media Center version by using the following steps:
- Click on the Start menu, choose Run and type cmd
- Type reg add "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center" /v Ident /t REG_SZ /d 4.0 /f
- Re-run WMP 11 setup
This entry was posted on Friday, May 19, 2006 at 5/19/2006 10:55:00 PM. 
2 Comments:
Not sure how you installed Update Rollup 2 for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 when you only have Media Center 2002. It won't let me install it at all. It says I need Media Center 2005 in order to proceed. Any ideas??
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April, at 1/14/2008 11:34:00 PM
I had the same problem. I found the following solution on the internet, and it worked for me:
1) Download Media Player 11 exe (wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe) to a folder. I created c:\download for this purpose.
2) Download and install the free utility “7-Zip”. I got it at Download.com, but other sites are available. Other zip utilities may work, but I know this one does.
3) Run 7-Zip and have it extract the files from wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe into another folder (eg: c:\download\wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu)
4) Run the file wmfdist11.exe from the folder, and complete the install prompts.
5) Run the file wmp11.exe from the folder, and complete the install prompts.
You should now have Media Player 11 installed.
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Anonymous, at 3/16/2008 10:40:00 AM
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