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How to install Windows Media Player 11 for vista home premium 32 bit This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. Free download Windows Media Player 12 skin from here. How to install Windows Media Player 12 skin for Windows Vista. After you download the WMP 12 skin to your computer, you may execute the following steps to to install it. If you are using Windows Media Player 11 for Vista, close the application. Next, take ownership of wmploc.dll.

Windows Media Player 12 is the next version of microsoft windows media player to be bundled with Windows 7. In an earlier post, we detailed the features of Windows Media Player 12. On reading it, you will find that WMP 12 has some awesome new features, making it a more complete media player on windows 7!

Microsoft is planning to release Windows 7 toward the end of 2009. Recently, they released a beta version of Windows 7 and it had WMP 12 bundled with it. One of “deviantART” users, bogo-d, has developed a theme (skin) to make Windows Media Player 11 look like Windows Media Player 12 in windows vista. Here we explain how to download and install the windows media player 12 skin in Vista.

Microsoft Windows Media Player 12 (WMP12) Skin for Vista:

Before installing this theme, you will do well to keep in mind that the skin requires Windows Vista (32 bit) and to install it, you will be required to change system files and registry entries in the operating system. You are hereby advised to do so at your own risk and warned that doing this incorrectly might cause windows vista or some of its components to stop functioning properly.

Free download Windows Media Player 12 skin from here.

How to install Windows Media Player 12 skin for Windows Vista

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After you download the WMP 12 skin to your computer, you may execute the following steps to to install it.

If you are using Windows Media Player 11 for Vista, close the application.
Next, take ownership of wmploc.dll. To do this, go to X:WindowsSystem32 where X is the drive letter of the partition where Windows Vista is installed
Right-click wmploc.dll and choose Properties
In the Properties window, select the Security tab and press Advanced
Next, select the Owner tab and press on Edit. If an UAC prompt appears, choose Continue
Select Administrators from the list and press OK on all the remaining dialogs.
Again, right click wmploc.dll and select Properties
In the Properties window, select the Security tab and press Advanced
Press Edit. If an UAC prompt appears, choose Continue
Select Administrators from the list and press Edit
Check the box next to Full Control under Allow . Press OK
Press OK on all remaining Properties dialog.
Rename wmploc.dll to wmploc.dll.bak and back it up in a safe location
Copy the extracted wmploc.dll from the downloaded zip archive to X:WindowsSystem32 folder
Copy settings.reg and restore.reg files to any folder on your computer.
Run settings.reg and press OK.

Thereafter, settings.reg can be deleted if you wish. However, do not delete restore.reg as you will need it to uninstall the theme.

How to restore the original Windows Media player 11?

Find below the steps to uninstall the above WMP 12 Skin for vista, in case you want to revert back to the original Windows Media player 11.

If you are running Windows Media Player, close the application
Delete wmploc.dll in system 32 folder. (X:WindowsSystem32wmploc.dll)
Rename wmploc.dll.bak that you backed up earlier, to wmploc.dll
Find restore.reg in the folder where you saved it and double click to execute it. It will restore the WMP 11 registry entries.

If you want to restore wmploc.dll’s original ownership and permissions, do the following.

Right-click wmploc.dll and choose Properties
In the Properties window, select the Security tab and press Advanced
Press Edit. If an UAC prompt appears, choose Continue
Select Administrators from the list and press Edit
Press Clear All
After clearing all boxes, check only the following.
- Traverse folder/execute file
- Read folder/read data
- Read attributes
- Read extended attributes and
- Read permissions
Press OK
Select the Owner tab
Press Edit. If an UAC prompt appears, choose Continue
Press Other users or groups…
Under “Enter the object name to select”, type NT SERVICETrustedInstaller
Press OK on all remaining Properties dialog

That is all folks .

From the above installation steps, it is clear that you will need to take ownership of wmploc.dll and windows Media Player folder on your vista installation. This is required to copy the extracted files, replacing the current file and folder, as detailed above. If you are not aware of how to take ownership of files in vista, you could use the free Winbubble tool to tweak vista and take ownership of files and folders.

Enjoy the free Windows Media Player 12 skin for Vista.

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If you are on windows xp, you could try the windows media player 12 for windows xp skin. You could also download windows media player 11, if you are not using the latest version of Windows media player 11 for Vista and XP.

Microsoft has released new version of Windows media player and Internet explorer for its new generation OS, Windows 7. The new Windows media player 12 is specially designed for Windows Vista and Windows 7. So for now its not possible to run Windows media player 12 on Windows XP. Actually the new WMP 12 is almost similar to Windows media player 11 which is now freely available for download. However, if you want Windows media player 12 in your Windows XP system, here is a solution. One Deviantart user has manged to extract Windows media player 12 resource files and made it available for Windows XP users.

Microsoft Windows media player 12 :

Windows media player 12 features:

Windows media player 12 has a new attractive toolbar design and compact menu structure. It can be used to burn or rip music disc, purchase music online, organize media files, sync from other music sources etc.

The sound quality of Windows media player 12 is very similar to that of WMP 11. So installing the player in Windows XP won’t make much difference. Checkout this post if you want improve sound quality of your Windows media player using another method.

How to install Windows media player 12 for Windows Vista/XP :
Download the following ZIP file. It contains two folders. From which , transfer wmploc.dll to your Windowssystem32 folder and the other one to program files folder .

Microsoft Windows Media Player 12 (WMP12) Skin for Vista:

How to install Windows Media Player 12 skin for Windows Vista

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