This is not the same one you download from the official Microsoft’s homepage as that one will not work.ģ. Next you’ll want to download the Windows Media Player 11 executable from here. Next, simply hit the Create button from the dialog box and give your restore point a name to help you identify it. To do so, simply type in ‘restore point’ in your Start Menu Search box and select Create a Restore Point in the results. Before doing anything, create a system restore point! This allows us to revert back in case the installation procedure goes horrid or if it causes system instability. Please read about it at the end of this article before proceeding. I along with other users have experienced a problem after performing the downgrade procedure. Therefore, once again, do this AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Currently I don’t know of a way to upgrade back to WMP12 from WMP11. I am not held responsible should you break your system following these steps. I am now documenting the same steps on my main laptop. I have followed it step by step in my Windows 7 virtual machine and everything worked perfectly. This entire procedure is based on this article. Although this is a small issue for users who don’t have a large music library, it certainly is for users who do and I am one of those user. I’m really hoping that it’s just a bug in the Windows 7 RC beta because a lot of people are complaining about this as well.
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Immediately afterwards, it stops with the update and everything returns to normal! No more random library updates and CPU hogging! Horray! Therefore, there really isn’t any incentive for actually following through with this guide anymore.īy downgrading back to WMP11, I shouldn’t have to worry about the constant hard drive access WMP12 causes. WMP12 behaves like it should! Whenever I add a new music album to a monitored folder, WMP12 quickly adds the new items to my library. Although I cannot clearly say for sure, both of my home computers seem to be doing fine when I added my music library to it.
The constant update issue of WMP12 in the Windows 7 RC seems to have been fixed in the retail version of the operating system.