uninstalling windows components/msie

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I want to uninstall the stupid windows media player
because the new xp version won't allow me to use Win DVD.
It won't let me uninstall it. It wants the disk to copy
MORE files on my hard drive - so it says. What part of
UNinstall does microsoft not understand?? How DOES one
uninstall a window component these days with the latest
(xp) dumbed down version of windows - so dumbed-down it's
impossible to operate? (I won't dignify ms/bg with capital
letters.) Why do xp components sabotage other (legitimate)
programs? And why doesn't msie let me set my internet
security to low? It just keeps setting it back to medium
no matter what I do and it's driving me crazy!!! (And
hampering functionality.) Is it time to go back to
Netscape, or maybe another lawsuit is in order?! Egads! I
wish I could afford a Mac! If windows is dumbed down any
further I swear I will eat beans for a year just to get
rid of ms. I am sick of being insulted by a stupid
computer program/os that treats me like I'm not capable of
setting my own internet security level, besides other too-
numerous-too-mention degrading insults.

(Thanks for letting me vent....sigh.)
 
Visit the "Official" Windows Media Player Newsgroup:
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

Windows Media Player FAQ
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/player/faq.aspx

Windows Media Player: WMP mini FAQ (Excellent Site!)
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

Windows Media Player Support Center
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=FH;[LN];wmp


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

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| I want to uninstall the stupid windows media player
| because the new xp version won't allow me to use Win DVD.
| It won't let me uninstall it. It wants the disk to copy
| MORE files on my hard drive - so it says. What part of
| UNinstall does microsoft not understand?? How DOES one
| uninstall a window component these days with the latest
| (xp) dumbed down version of windows - so dumbed-down it's
| impossible to operate? (I won't dignify ms/bg with capital
| letters.) Why do xp components sabotage other (legitimate)
| programs? And why doesn't msie let me set my internet
| security to low? It just keeps setting it back to medium
| no matter what I do and it's driving me crazy!!! (And
| hampering functionality.) Is it time to go back to
| Netscape, or maybe another lawsuit is in order?! Egads! I
| wish I could afford a Mac! If windows is dumbed down any
| further I swear I will eat beans for a year just to get
| rid of ms. I am sick of being insulted by a stupid
| computer program/os that treats me like I'm not capable of
| setting my own internet security level, besides other too-
| numerous-too-mention degrading insults.
|
| (Thanks for letting me vent....sigh.)
 
Of course, none of this is down to your inabilities or lack of understanding
re.XP.. should we all shudder at the thought of that?..
 
Well Gee, I spent years learning/managing/configuring
MSDOS6/WIN3.1/WIN95/WIN98. During the early years of
intensive self-training I became skilled at managing
dos/win3.1/win95 memory issues enough to run robust kids
games for my sons and still have memory to spare, enter
complicated dos commands, do very complicated configuring
issues with win3.1/win95/win98 - oh and I forgot - also
winME which was a massive piece of crap foisted off on the
unsuspecting public - not too mention jumping tall
buildings in a single bound. (Working, raising children
going to undergrad and trying to get into med school.

But now I actually have a LIFE - in my case, med school,
TRYING to learn to save lives and all that entails. So
gee, SORRY if I don't have multiplied, countless hours to
learn all the nuances of where ms has hidden all the
things I used to be able to configure myself in all the
previous versions of windows because the powers that be
have suddenly decided the public is too STUPID to
configure their own components.

In fact, I'm at the point where, in lieu of buying a mac
(not an option due to poverty - for now) I'm thinking of
selling my XP and backing down to win98se - the last REAL
ms OS according to many, MANY tech support personnel
across the globe, including every DELL technician I've
talked to. (And that's a lot.) And now that I think about
it, come Christmas when I may actually have a couple extra
days to spare, that is EXACTLY what I will do. Then I
won't have to bother the likes of people like you who make
snap judgements about the competency of people posting
here in frustration, hoping to get a little help and
support, or at least commiseration.

Care to try medical school?
-caw
 
If you show the same level of patience and understanding in Med school, god
help anybody who is ever treated by you..
 
Not being willing to spend countless hours away from my
studies to re-learn an inanimate program I've already
learned 3 times before hardly counts as lacking
in "patience and understanding" toward my studies - or my
future patients which is the inference I assume you're
drawing; otherwise your comparison is worthless and I'm
willing to give you the benefit of doubt. That you have
made such a leap (from inanimate which counts for nothing
to animate which counts for everything) tells us something
about you, my friend.

And now having taken a couple of quick study breaks to
respond to your silliness, your five minutes is up. Take 2
aspirin and call me in the morning. ;)
 
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