i have windows media center 2002. when i try to install wmp-11 i get a
message saying i need windows media center 2005 or better. are there any
downloads i can get to upgrade my system so as to upgrade to wmp-11 (i need
this to watch movies from netflix). thanks for any advice i get.

Re: media center 2002 upgrade to wmp-11 by Neil

Neil
Sat Mar 15 13:59:53 PDT 2008

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:27:01 -0700, e39525iat
<e39525iat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>i have windows media center 2002. when i try to install wmp-11 i get a
>message saying i need windows media center 2005 or better. are there any
>downloads i can get to upgrade my system so as to upgrade to wmp-11 (i need
>this to watch movies from netflix). thanks for any advice i get.


No, you need MCE2005 with a patch (or Vista MCE) to run WMP11 : See
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/readme.aspx#InstallingthePlayeronWindowsXPMediaCenterEdition

WMP11 depends on some patches included in XP SP2, which I believe
can't be applied to MCE2002 (which is now 6 years old).

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs

Re: media center 2002 upgrade to wmp-11 by zachd

zachd
Wed Mar 19 09:30:26 PDT 2008


Media Center 2002 also isn't itself compatible with WMP11, since it uses WMP
for recordings. Updating to a newer WMP with that particular old Media
Center would break various recording, which would be horrible.

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:6afot394o3va4cdi58mh6t9o2q9gnfllj6@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:27:01 -0700, e39525iat
> <e39525iat@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>
>>i have windows media center 2002. when i try to install wmp-11 i get a
>>message saying i need windows media center 2005 or better. are there any
>>downloads i can get to upgrade my system so as to upgrade to wmp-11 (i
>>need
>>this to watch movies from netflix). thanks for any advice i get.
>
>
> No, you need MCE2005 with a patch (or Vista MCE) to run WMP11 : See
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/11/readme.aspx#InstallingthePlayeronWindowsXPMediaCenterEdition
>
> WMP11 depends on some patches included in XP SP2, which I believe
> can't be applied to MCE2002 (which is now 6 years old).
>
> HTH
> Cheers - Neil
> ------------------------------------------------
> Digital Media MVP : 2004-2008
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/mvpfaqs