{"id":3143,"date":"2013-09-28T14:48:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T14:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3143"},"modified":"2013-09-28T18:37:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T18:37:30","slug":"3143","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3143","title":{"rendered":"Install Windows Media Player 11 on Server 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the directions for doing this on the web, somewhere, but I felt as though the page was poorly written. It failed to note a couple of things which could lead to confusion when doing this install. Anyway, Windows Media Player 11 will work on Server 2003. The steps to make it work, however, are pretty strange. So, here goes<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> First, download Windows Media Player 11 \u2013 you can get it from me, here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/WMP11_2k31.zip\">DOWNLOAD MEDIA PLAYER 11<\/a><\/p>\n<li> Begin the installation but do not proceed beyond the screen which says \u201cvalidate\u201d \u2013 and leave this screen open throughout all of the next steps.\n<li> At this point temporary files will have been extracted somewhere \u2013 although I couldn\u2019t find the damned things using the Windows search function (contrary to the instructions I\u2019d originally found). I finally found them at:<br \/>\n<strong>C:\\Documents and Settings\\Administrator\\Local Settings\\Temp\\IXP000.TMP<\/strong><br \/>\nYours may be somewhere else &#8211; but they\u2019re in there somewhere. Once you&#8217;ve found these files you need to run them (1) in the following order, and, (2) in <strong>XP compatibility mode<\/strong>.<strong><br \/>\nwmfdist11.exe<br \/>\numdf.exe<br \/>\nwmdbexport.exe<\/strong><\/p>\n<li> <strong>Very important:<\/strong> now, restart your computer.<\/ul>\n<p>This is one of those spots where the page I found overlooked something. In the same folder from which you&#8217;d been working you now need to run <strong>wmp11.exe<\/strong>.   There&#8217;s a bit of a problem to solve, first, however. Once you\u2019ve restarted the temporary files will be gone. You need to begin the installation just as you did at the top, stopping with the validation screen, in order to create this file.<br \/>\nOnce you\u2019ve run the above file, restart again.<br \/>\nNow go to <strong>Start > Run<\/strong> and type <strong>wmplayer<\/strong>. This will bring up the standard option to choose an express installation, etc. \u2013 just finish the process and you\u2019re done\u2026it works.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/wmp.png\" width=\"580\" height=\"400\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the directions for doing this on the web, somewhere, but I felt as though the page was poorly written. It failed to note a couple of things which could lead to confusion when doing this install. Anyway, Windows Media Player 11 will work on Server 2003. The steps to make it work, however, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}