“Yes, Hello, Plumbers? I Think There’s A Leak In My Memory.”
At least, as far as Windows Media Player 9 is concerned there is…
Imagine a time-flow like this:
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You say: Windows, remove the Component ‘Media Player 9′ from your system
Windows says: Certainly, are you sure you want to do that?
You say: Of course I’m sure, I wouldn’t be asking you if I wasn’t
Windows says: OK, but are you really sure that you’re sure?
You say: Just do it before I remove you and just use my Linux instalation for everything
Windows says (in a sullen tone of voice): OK, OK… removing that component now Done, please restart me.
You restart
You go about your business
After a couple of hours of uptime Windows says: Please wait while I try to update the component I just removed; and promptly chews up all of your processor time and nearly all of your RAM as it tries to access now-missing routines, files and loop ender specifiers
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So… now the search begins to try and find out the hidden windows command I use ot totally remove their media player from my system. it has to be there, or so I hope. Oh, and the search also begins for a new media player to use for my video files and DVDs. Songs ‘n stuff don’t matter; I have Winamp for that, and wouldn’t use anything else if you paid me.
Addendum (08:01 AM): Found it. If you ever want to wipe this nasty little thing form your system, enter at the command line: RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall
It will ask you if you want to roll back to the version of WMP that originally came with Windows. Yes, you do. It will then ask you to restart. Do so, thne go through and remove the windows component of Media Player again, and that should be that.
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