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Remove Windows Media Player from Winows 7
Hi,
I have Windows 7 64bit.
After I installed it, everything was fine except the part where I wanted to configure Mplayer(www.mplayerhq.hu) to be used for all movie extensions.
I right-clicked a .avi movie, Open With, Choose Default Program, Browse, selected the Mplayer executable and checked the checkbox that says to use Mplayer always to open this kind of files.
Normally(in WindowsXP and Windows Vista) next time I just double-click any .avi file and it opens with Mplayer. Instead in Windows 7 when double-clicked an .avi file, it automatically opened Windows Media Player. After this each time I right-click, Open With, Browse, select Mplayer, the checkbox that says "Use this program to always..." is simply grayed out. I tried to add the NoFileAssociation registry thing but it does not help. No matter what I do, Windows 7 forces me to use Windows Media Player by default.
I got mad, rebooted and started WindowsXP from a liveCD, changed ownership of the two(program files 32bit and 64bit) wmplayer.exe executables and removed them. Then I copied mplayer in the Windows Media Player directory and renamed it to wmplayer.exe. After rebooting to Windows 7, when I double click a movie I can see that it tries to open using the renamed wmplayer.exe mplayer but it does not work because most likely it passes some parameters to the command line which mplayer does not understand.
Situations like this one when the stupid Microsoft forces you to use the stupid Windows Media Player makes me throw the Windows CD out of the window.
Please tell me how do I remove Windows Media Player completely out of my new Windows 7 and how do I make my .avi movies open using Mplayer when I double-click them.
Please help.
Many thanks in advance.