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Is there a way of uninstalling WMP on Vista?
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Shouldn't this be illegal in some way? o_O
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I really doubt it's a good idea that's remotely worth the space you'll save though.
Nah, it's just that I don't need it and I've always got a problem with the mfpmp, it just stacks the same process over and over again and when I try to shutdown my laptop I have to press the power button, yeah I know, it's strange
But since it's that much complicated then I'll just leave as it is, thanks for the help guys
vLite is basically designed for this. You will probably need to reinstall Windows, but you can do so with as little extraneous crap as possible.
Why do you want to uninstall it? It takes up little space and it's not intrusive at all.
In general a corporation isn't supposed to leverage a monopoly in one product to obtain a new and exciting monopoly on a completely different product, which is why the U.S. DoJ (among other governmental agencies) has been breathing down Microsoft's neck for, what, ten years now? In Europe Microsoft was required to distribute a version of Windows without the media player.
MS has done some things wrong and continues to do so but the EU seems to have some greater biff with MS.
WMP being in Windows depresses the market for other media players in the same way that bundling IE makes it impossible to sell a web browser. Notepad, Wordpad, and Paint, unlike WMP and IE, are half-assed bullshit: nobody in their right mind would claim that Notepad is a fully-featured text editor.
That's the legal theory, anyway. I agree that it isn't a big deal but it really is irritating that Microsoft won't let you uninstall them.
Apple doesn't have a monopoly, so no.
Man, I'm just explaining the theory that these governments are working from, I didn't say I agreed with it.
Although people used to spend actual money for browsers (Netscape and Opera used to cost money, remember) and in fact still do for platforms other than the PC. And text editors, too. I mean, all an IDE really is, when you break it down, is a specialized text editor and a compiler.