the Office Muscle

Sometimes I just get caught up in the latest, "greatest." Well, I was disappointed with WMP 11. The sleek black is cool, but it functioned differently/incorrectly in my opinion in comparison to the previous. IE 7 was all right, but IE 6 is still the most used browser and I don't know how to test for both on the same machine in my web dev, so I opted with rolling back. It feels much better. ahh....

Warning: You should probably make a backup copy of the registry before attempting to uninstall media player 11 beta. Although I didn't. Tee hee. :) And it's probably only a good idea to use this method if it's not listed under the Add/Remove Programs, which mine wasn't. Make a copy by selecting: Registry / Export Registry, save it on your Desktop.

• Click the START button and select Run.
• Type in: regedit in the command box.
• When the regedit window appears, expand the HKEY LOCAL MACHINE by clicking on the plus sign to its right.
• Now Click on the plus next to SOFTWARE, then MICROSOFT, then WINDOWS, then CURRENT VERSION and finally UNINSTALL
• When you expand the Uninstall folder, you'll see all the programs currently installed, such as the uninstall Media Player 10 or Media Player, etc.
• Click on the folder you want to uninstall, in the box on the right you will see two strings:
• DisplayName and UninstallString.
• Double click UninstallString and a box will appear with the uninstall string highlighted.
• Right click on the highlighted entry and select COPY.
• Close the Regedit window.
• Select the START button and click RUN.
• Right click inside the command box and paste the uninstall string and click OK to uninstall Media Player 10 beta.

I used the same procedure on IE 7 beta (in order to get back to IE 6 -- a somewhat allowable evil in a world that still produces websites that only work in IE. Pathetic!) Obviously, just changed which dir and uninstall string you use.