I’ve just installed Window Media Player 11 on windows xp sp2, but when I start, it gives an error message:
“The file wmplayer.exe has a version number of 11.0.5358.4827 where 9.0.0.3250 was expected”
and I’m not able to start the player. After a little googling found this tips on eivaagames.com. The fix is as follows:
For Windows Vista:
Reboot your system. Then open cmd.exe as an administrator and then run
“c:\windows\system32\unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMP” to fix this.
On all other Windows systems:
Reboot your system and then run “c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMP” to fix this.
December 5, 2008 at 5:54 am |
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I scoured the net for complicated fixes, and this was the only one to work. Plus it was horribly simple.
December 5, 2008 at 11:19 am |
Thanks Benton for sharing that. I am glad knowing that MyOneCent is serving it’s purpose.
December 12, 2008 at 3:02 am |
Where should i put “c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMP”
December 15, 2008 at 12:08 pm |
Click on windows start menu then click Run. On the Run dialog box type in the command and then click OK.
December 18, 2008 at 11:19 am |
Thank you. i did what you said and was able to roll back to version 10. But when i install version 11. i get this message Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled. Do you want to install the player from the Microsoft Web Site?
May 6, 2009 at 4:47 am |
So I tried this but I don’t have the Update WMP option after I open up unregmp2.exe, please help!
September 3, 2009 at 1:18 pm |
there is a problem..in the command prompt,when i give the path,that says “the path is not specified”
September 17, 2009 at 6:03 pm |
THANK YOU!!! THIS ALSO FIXED IE8…
This not only fixed WMP on my Vista laptop that went bad today but also fixed Internet Explorer on it as well. A couple months ago, I kept getting this “Internet explorer has stopped working” message & IE8 would not start up. I started using Chrome instead but now IE works!
IE8 went bad after I installed a video editing program but once I uninstalled it, it still wouldn’t open. Before, I tried all sorts of fixes & scanned my computer for viruses but nothing worked. It wouldn’t let me uninstall, reinstall, or downgrade the version either. It’s nice peace of mind to have things working again rather than having both a broken WMP & IE!!!
October 30, 2009 at 1:46 pm |
OMG IT WORKED!!!
Godlike work, dude!! (also on Windows 7, like on Vista)
THANK YOUU!!!!!
October 30, 2009 at 1:59 pm |
You’re welcome and thanks for your appreciation.
November 9, 2009 at 2:05 am |
Great !
Its working, thank you for your help !
November 14, 2009 at 4:38 pm |
Thanks 4 the advice , you rullz