Software Deployment

Have a look in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\{WMP_Product_Code} for a value 'SystemComponent' with data '1'. If present, WMP is installed as a system component and therefore has no Remove/Repair natively available from Add/Remove Programs. However, you should be able to drive it from the command line, using the '/F' switch.

Hi VBScab,

Thanks for your quick response. As this is not an .msi the productcode does not exist under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\.

but the two other key names exist under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\windows media format runtime and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\windows media player exist under which two uninstall string values exist.

As there is no .msi /f switch will also not work for repairing. Please share any other option for repairing if you know. Thanks again for your quick response


Regards
Ramesh

Sorry about that...I kind of assumed that MS would persist with a technology it's been pushing down everyone's throat for the last decade. I can't see any way to initiate a repair using that installer. I guess you *could* capture it...

I guess you *could* capture it...

If you were a nut.

Surely WMP should be delivered using Windows Update Services - the same as you'd deliver thinks like Internet Explorer and the like?!

Use the Enterprise Deployment Pack to create an MSI. Problem solved.
Its all documented in the Package KB.
http://itninja.com/link/download


http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/enterprise/deploypack.aspx

Do you know what, Dean? I thought that there had to be such a thing but I searched the MS site for as long as I could (before work got in the way...) and came up blank. I would, of course, have followed the advice I regularly dish out and used the Package KB, were it not for the fact that I couldn't access it yesterday (nor again today). (Bob, if you're reading this, I think it's the ad rotator script taking forever but don't quote me...)

I'm not seeing any delays at all. The ad code is actually fed via an online service and should not effect the time it takes the content of the page to appear-- what brower are you using? IE, Chrome and FireFox seem fine.

My default is FF but, as usual, before whining, I check that issues like this aren't browser-related by resorting to IE (6 & 7). Same result. Today, all is well. I'll blame it on sunspot activity...