Comments on: More Annoyances With the Windows Media Player Library http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html Fri, 25 May 2012 17:16:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20172 Anonymous Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20172 Ed Bott's solution worked perfectly. Delete all the database files you find in there, and you're done!<br /><br />Thanks. Ed Bott’s solution worked perfectly. Delete all the database files you find in there, and you’re done!

Thanks.

]]> By: JakeTheRipper http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20174 JakeTheRipper Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:56:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20174 Ha, Ed Bott's solution worked perfectly for my problem of the same nature. Cheers for the help :) Ha, Ed Bott’s solution worked perfectly for my problem of the same nature. Cheers for the help :)

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20175 Anonymous Tue, 07 Mar 2006 13:52:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20175 to uninstall media player you go to add/remove programs and put a check mark in the "Show Updates" box and then it will list the player in there to uninstall media player you go to add/remove programs and put a check mark in the “Show Updates” box and then it will list the player in there

]]> By: Ryan http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20176 Ryan Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:29:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20176 It worked! I have spent half a day trying to remove the current media library and vuala, it's gone. Thanks! It worked! I have spent half a day trying to remove the current media library and vuala, it’s gone. Thanks!

]]> By: Raj http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20177 Raj Tue, 22 Mar 2005 07:20:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20177 Bingo! That worked for me. Thanks for the tip. Bingo! That worked for me. Thanks for the tip.

]]> By: Ed Bott http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20178 Ed Bott Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:19:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20178 Thomas,<br /><br />I documented all this in Windows XP Inside Out Second Edition last year. My bet is that the files are exactly where they should be, only hidden. Try copying this text, exactly as typed (with percent signs) and paste it into the Run box:<br /><br />%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player<br /><br />Ed Thomas,

I documented all this in Windows XP Inside Out Second Edition last year. My bet is that the files are exactly where they should be, only hidden. Try copying this text, exactly as typed (with percent signs) and paste it into the Run box:

%userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player

Ed

]]> By: Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20179 Thomas Hawk Sat, 12 Mar 2005 13:48:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20179 Thanks for the suggestion Tobias. Unfortunately, that file is not where it should be. Further I did a search for folders and files on my PC looking for both "current" and ".wmdb" and Windows Explorer could not come up with the file.<br /><br />Thanks for the advice though. I'm still stuck with my library unfortunately. Thanks for the suggestion Tobias. Unfortunately, that file is not where it should be. Further I did a search for folders and files on my PC looking for both “current” and “.wmdb” and Windows Explorer could not come up with the file.

Thanks for the advice though. I’m still stuck with my library unfortunately.

]]> By: The Mister T http://thomashawk.com/2005/03/more-annoyances-with-windows-media.html/comment-page-1#comment-20180 The Mister T Sat, 12 Mar 2005 08:13:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=4188#comment-20180 Take a look at <i>C:\Documents and Settings\[YOURNAMEHERE]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player</i> - you'll find "CurrentDatabase*.wmdb" files in there. You can try to delete those and see if the stuff is gone (have not tried this yet). <br />Found it out via FileMon from <a href="http://www.sysinternals.com/" rel="nofollow">www.sysinternals.com </a> (which should really be installed on every system :).<br /><br />Hope this helps<br />- Tobias Take a look at C:\Documents and Settings\[YOURNAMEHERE]\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Media Player – you’ll find “CurrentDatabase*.wmdb” files in there. You can try to delete those and see if the stuff is gone (have not tried this yet).
Found it out via FileMon from http://www.sysinternals.com (which should really be installed on every system :) .

Hope this helps
- Tobias

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