Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature –FeatureName "WindowsMediaPlayer" -OnlineĪs soon as you execute the command, the PowerShell will uninstall the Windows Media Player. In the PowerShell window, execute the below command. To do that, search for “PowerShell” in the start menu, right-click on it and select “Run as Administrator” option.Ģ. First, open the elevated PowerShell window. The best thing about this method is that you don’t have to go through obscure pages.ġ. 2] PowerShell Command to Uninstall Windows Media PlayerĪs an alternative, you can also use a simple PowerShell command to uninstall the Windows Media Player. Now, find Windows Media Player in the list, click on it, and then click on the “Install” button. If you want to reinstall Windows Media Player again, go to the same Optional Feature page, click on the “Add a feature” button. To make the changes take effect, reboot Windows. Once you see the list, scroll all the way down, click on the “Windows Media Player” option and then click on the “Uninstall” button.Īs soon as you click on the button, Windows Media Player will be uninstalled silently in the background. It can take a couple of seconds to load the installed optional features list. This action will take you to the optional features page. On the right panel, click on the “Optional Features” link under the Apps & Features section.ģ. After opening the Settings app, go to the “Apps → Apps & Features” page. I tried almost all the others, but each had problems, like no equalizer settings kept in VLC, poor audio in MP Classic, hogged system resources for many popular players, etc.2.
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I use different players for different file types, but my favorite is JetAudio free version since it plays everything, downloads anything needed if it can’t and even in my oldest PC, it can play full HD videos without stuttering and the audio quality is outstanding. Tools>folder options>file types in explorer is another option to make changes for one or many file types in XP and similar options are there for others. Sometimes, defaults will act again automatically and unexpected associations will result. When installing a new player, or changing a file association for it, care should be taken in its list. If you already have one or more media players with some file types (avi, mp3, mp4, etc.) configured as default, you have to first unselect any in that player’s list otherwise when you use that player or if the player installed a utility that works at bootup, the associations will come back, sometimes even if that player has been uninstalled. With so many players out there, it is impossible to list all, but the procedure to be followed should be: Wholesale change, as it sounds like you are, using the replacement utilitiesĪbility to set it all up for you is most likely the best way to go.ĭifferent media players have sometimes different behavior when modifying file associations. Your media files once again you can simply run it and return to this optionsĪlmost every other approach involves manually setting the media player forĮach individual file type that you care about. If you decide you want Windows Media Player to play some, or even all, of In fact, Windows Media Player itself has a similar selection as part of it’s In the “Advanced” or other non-default options selections – or as an option in Most other media players do something similar, either at setup time – often “unregistering”, no deleting, no having to figure out what file types you care Media player when you double click or otherwise open a file. That’s by far the fastest way to set up “something else” as your default Like) and on completion the setup program will register VLC media player as theĭefault program to play all those file types. To examine the list of file types in more detail, and to pick and choose if you I’ve selected all (you can expand the lists I’ve scrolled the list of options down somewhat to uncover the File When you run the VLC Setup program, one of the steps allows you to choose Supports many, many different file types and encodings. Media player, a free, open source, cross platform media player that Doing that by hand can be difficult, but many programs have a Instead, you want to replace the default program with the one of yourĬhoosing. Removing the association leaves you with no program to be It is possible to remove the associations, but honestly, I don’t think that’s By “default” I’m going to assume that you mean the default for playing a
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