Windows: Media Player
Play DVDs with Windows Media Player
To play DVD's with Windows Media Player, you
need to have a DVD Player (For example, PowerDVD) or a MPEG2
codec installed.[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Player\Settings]Create
the String value Enable DVDUI, value = yes. Reboot.
Delete Windows Media Player 8 history and
playlists History
In C:\Documents and Settings\{username}\Local
Settings\Application Data, you will find a file with a name such as
DCBC2A71-70D8-4DAN-#HR*-#0D61DEA3FDF.ini. Delete it.
Playlists
In C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Applications Data\Microsoft\Media Index, you will find a file with
a DB extension. Delete it. As far as I can tell, WMP8 does not store
filenames in the registry. If you know otherwise, please let me know.
How to Disable the Windows Media Player for
Windows XP Automatic Update Feature
To control whether you allow the Windows Media
Player Automatic Update feature, user the following Windows XP registry
hack:
Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Key: SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer
Name: DisableAutoUpdate
Type: REG_DWORD
Value: 1
The same registry hack works for Windows Media Player 7.0 and 7.1 used
in NT and Windows 2000.
For older Windows with Windows Media Player 6.4, the key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\EnableAutoUpgrade,
Type=REG_SZ, and value="No".
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