Completely Remove Media Player

[Lived]

Is there a way to completely remove Windows Media Player? I want to remove as much spyware as possible.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Just right-click the exe file and choose "Delete"

 

[Lived]

I was hoping it would include any and all registry entries so there would be no conflicts.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

If you right-click all your different media types and choose "Open with" and point them to your preffered media player, and put a tick in "always use this", there will be no conflicts.

 

[Lived]

So you're pretty much saying there is no direct efficient way to remove WMP.......

 

[Lived]

If you try to delete the files, Windows automatically regenerates them. Just goes to show you how bad MS wants to spy on you.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

Delete the driver cache and Windows can't replace it, however its not advisable to delete this cache, if you get a dodgy driver, Windows will not be able to fix it