How to completely disable windows media player from running in windows xp?

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You could try uninstalling Windows Media Player so the older version automatically comes on in its place. Windows Media Player 9 is extremely unattractive both visually and in use in comparison to later versions

Hi 'all_purpose_white_guy' (I like your handle!) : Sounds like you've got one of those slow moving PCs. Me too ! Try running your "Disk Defragmenter". Delete all your cookies. Manually search through your computer for programs that you never use and DELETE them. Open a file called 'Temp' and delete all those EMPTY folders. After deleting your cookies, have a look at the same file, where your cookies are, and open a bunch of OBJECTS. Delete the objects that mean nothing to you. So, what you'll be doing, is dumping all the excess baggage from your PC. Get to your favourite computer store and buy a MEMORY STICK to increase the PCs memory. Low memory will really slow down your computer. Buy a memory stick with at least 512 MB. Good Luck ! I know the frustrations you're going through.

Uninstall it.

But so many portable application can play multimedia file right now and I think just uninstall it does not good choice. Consider to move Vista , there are lot of feature to handle like this.

Open Regedit

create key at

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer]

"disallowrun"=dword:00000001

now use the dissallowrun key u just have created and insert

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer\disallowrun]

"*****"="wmplayer.exe"

******give any strange name here

thats all