San not download and run WMP

[DTP]

THis is the message I get when I try to download WMP. This version of
Windows Media Technologies is incompatible with this version of Windows. For
more information, view the information at the Microsoft web
site.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/default.aspx is
the site that states version 9 is no longer available.
Yes I am using WindowsXP and Office 2003. Does this info help in determing
what I need to do to download WMP?

"Mike Williams" wrote:

> DTP wrote:
> > Here is the site for the SP3 update
> > http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=85AF7BFD-6F69-4289-8BD1-EB966BCDFB5E&displaylang=en
> > However even though the SP3 download was unseccesful this is when I started
> > to have problems. Windows automaticaly updated the Microsoft Media player to
> > version 10 now I do not have any sound tyhe old version was 9. Microsoft
> > states that there is currently no support for version 9
> > Any suggestion on what to do next?
>
> OK - That's *OFFICE* XP SP3 not *WINDOWS* XP SP3. Are you actually
> running Office XP too? Think very carefully as the two are not interrelated.
>
> If you downloaded a whole lot of unrelated fixes, did you happen to
> notice if WMP10 was included amongst them? It's not a compulsory update..
>
> Where do you read "Microsoft states that there is currently no support
> for version 9".?
>

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

Launch your Windows Media Player 9 and from
the Toolbar select: Help > Check for Player Updates.
This is the proper procedure in order to upgrade
to Windows Media Player 10.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows Shell/User

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"DTP" wrote:

| THis is the message I get when I try to download WMP. This version of
| Windows Media Technologies is incompatible with this version of Windows. For
| more information, view the information at the Microsoft web
| site.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/default.aspx is
| the site that states version 9 is no longer available.
| Yes I am using WindowsXP and Office 2003. Does this info help in determing
| what I need to do to download WMP?

[Mike Williams]

DTP wrote:
> THis is the message I get when I try to download WMP. This version of
> Windows Media Technologies is incompatible with this version of Windows. For
> more information, view the information at the Microsoft web
> site.http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/9series/default.aspx is
> the site that states version 9 is no longer available.
> Yes I am using WindowsXP and Office 2003. Does this info help in determing
> what I need to do to download WMP?

That's a well-known error message posted here almost every other day.In
fact popping the first sentence into Google, gives answers fairly rapidly.

For instance: http://msmvps.com/blogs/chrisl/archive/2004/10/02/14743.aspx

Or http://www.zachd.com/pss/pss.html