OK so you chose not to pony up the exorbitant pile of cash necessary to procure a genuine copy of windows. Good for you! (Bad for Microsoft). So now you find yourself sittin’ pretty in a vibrating leather chair which you bought with the excess dough enjoying a hardy laugh. Alright, so Windows Media Player 11 won’t install on your system. It’s nothing but a resource hog anyway and pales in comparison to just about any rival player out there (many of which are free!). No worries right? Right… until the day comes when you decide to watch a streaming movie from your Netflix account (which you did legitimately pay for I’m assuming [otherwise you need to let a brotha know!]). Well now this just isn’t fair. Now now, do not fret, thanks to Microsoft’s blatant ineptitude, the solution is as simple as pie (assumption here is you are already skilled at pie making). So lets move on shall we?
There are no cracks to download or patches to apply. All you need here is a good compression app (something other than Winzip). I recommend either WinRar ( Free Download Here ) or 7zip. Now once you have that, all we need to get started is the actual Media Player 11 installer. Luckily this is available from Microsoft without any validation. Microsoft Page
Once you download the executable, wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe , all that remains is to extract its contents into a folder of your choice. Right click on it and in the case of WinRar, hit extract to <folder name> . Now all the executables are right at your fingertips. First run the wmfdist11.exe file. Once this completes, reboot your machine. Next, run the
wmp11.exe file. Next… there is no next! It’s that easy! Turn up the vibrating motors on that chair of yours and enjoy everything Netflix has to offer.
Here are the steps in case you want to skip the fancy talk and get right down to business
- Download Winrar if not already installed
- Download Microsoft Media Player 11
- Extract its contents into a new folder using WinRar (or utility of choice)
- Run wmfdist11.exe
- Reboot
- Run wmp11.exe
- Enjoy
kalatix said,
June 28, 2008 at 4:11 am
:O I have been trying for hours to work this exact thing out. Amazing what the internet can dig up for you. But thanks for making this in the first place :]
Danang said,
August 30, 2008 at 4:28 am
this is awesome! thanks a lot for wrote us this info