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??? Why do you answer about directx slipstreaming? I was searching (and I did find) the installer for windows media player 9 series... Was I misunderstood?

I read in wikipedia .net framework version 2.0SP2 is the latest official package supporting win2k. Is there some important update needed for it?

Well, with a bit of luck I just found this page: http://www.dataflow.it/download.htm (I don't know if I can direct link the file, so I provide the full page as reference) which contains the installer I was after. Here you have it too, perhaps bristols wants to add the link to his page...?

I'm performing the win2k slipstreaming with the updates suggested by bristols. The issue is I'm actually unable to find a valid installer for WMP9 series (MPsetup.exe) in italian, it seems it was deleted in the whole internet. The only installer is MPsetupXP.exe, which just contains XP-optimised modules. Else, I only find the original english installer MPsetup.exe provided with so-called multi-lingual-interface modules. What are they? Am I supposed to install two different things in place of a single localized executable? Are they useful in this case? I would like to find a localized version for WMP9 Series, has someone a valid link for the italian installer? Of course, slipstreaming the english installer works ok but, you know, everything else in the OS is localized, so... Thank you.

This works like a charm, thank you for your hints!!!

The following files are installed by wmfdist95.exe: DRMUPGDS.EXE UWDF.EXE WDFMGR.EXE WDFAPI.DLL WMDRMDEV.DLL WMDRMNET.DLL WMVADVD.DLL WMVADVE.DLL WPD_CI.DLL WPDCONNS.DLL WPDMTP.DLL WPDMTPDR.DLL WPDMTPUS.DLL WPDSP.DLL WPDTRACE.DLL Further, I have: MSOOBCI.DLL into "{programs folder}\Windows Media Player" and WPDUSB.SYS into "{windows folder}\system32\drivers" The installer contains indeed many other files but these appear to be already installed in updated versions by other packages and so they are not replaced. I think I can live without these files, unless someone knows they provide very VERY important features.

I want to tell you about my last trial. I slipstreamed everything but wmfdist95.exe, the new system appeared working into the VM, wmp9 running, ie8 running and much happiness was in the air. Viewing some embedded content was the next challenge. Well, the embedded videos did not appear but a warning popped up about an ActiveX control needed to be run in order to the whole page to work: the component was a "Windows Media 6.4 Player Shim" which is related (thank Google) to KB891772. I did run the needed control and the embedded contents worked. But what was I missing without wmfdist95.exe? I installed the exe and nothing changed: I mean, everything still worked as before. New step. I installed again this new XP (wmp9 worked, ie8 worked), then installed wmfdist95.exe, just to be sure nothing was missing on this system. Then, surfed to some embedded content again. Again, I had to run the activeX control about "Windows Media 6.4 Player Shim" and the embedded content was enabled. Now, about wmfdist95.exe I will investigate what I miss without installing it. Note: about the needed ActiveX control, the warning says it is already on my system (it was installed by some other package), it just need to be run in order to provide its functionality. Maybe there is a way to run it during system installation to avoid the pop-up to appear?

Sorry, no good news. Latest trial using all the updates together brought the same old story: wmp9 doesn't run, it says it's not properly installed. What now?

Finishing the big work... WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB973540-x86-ITA.exe All went ok, wmp9 is running. wmfdist95.exe Same result, everything was fine. Maybe this was the case. I re-downloaded the file, then slipstreamed again (alone) and everything worked, wmp9 and ie8, with no errors during setup. Conclusion: each hotfix added alone doesn't cause system corruption (and now I'm sure they're NOT corrupted), so the next step is to slipstream the whole thing again using them all together.

Hey, wait a little, playing this game is not so fast! After selecting the next hotfix to integrate I have to: - slipstream (this takes half a hour) - create a VM (a couple of minutes) - install windows (more than half a hour) - perform some test Waiting in most of the time... Here some results: WindowsMedia9-KB969878-x86-ITA.exe wmp9 runs flawlessly WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB952069-v2-x86-ITA.exe wmp9 run flawlessly WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB954155-x86-ITA.exe !!!!!!!!!! Error during install: in the very first stage (text only) setup complains IEFRAME.DLL is missing. Anyway it goes on when I select "ignore". Install completes, wmp9 runs flawlessly BUT ie8 DOESN'T start at all!!! Furthermore, the default theme is "windows classic", not "Luna". "Luna" is present and I can select it but it's not selected as default theme. Side note: since when I removed "Q282784_WXP_SP1_x86_ENU.exe", qfecheck.exe is not available anymore. Since it's not related to wmp business, I will include it again from now on. edit: WindowsXP-WindowsMedia-KB968816-x86-ITA.exe wmp9 is working again, ie8 starts again, installation shows no errors.

Here you have my latest hfslip.log. Going to slipstream a lot... Edit: I always remove SOURCESS folder in order to re-start the whole process. Is there a way to (save some time) / (skip some part) / (keep some old file)? HFSLIP.LOG.zip

Well, well, well. I removed the files tommyp suggested and now I'm finally able to run wmp9 with no flaw. Each component of my virtualized slipstreamed XP is working as expected (but, of course, latest windows media updates are missing). So what's happened this time? Can you say which of those packages introduces the bug? This is a very old package providing an outdated version of qfecheck (I really thought I removed this some time ago). I actually don't know how to slipstream the latest qfecheck.exe (I think it's version 6.2.29.0) which is floating on internet.

Of course, this is a logical question. I'm aware that wmp9 is outdated and it's actually not my favourite player. I play music via foobar2000 and videos via Media Player Classic or even MPlayer (using command line) but, since I always used nLite until yesterday, I want to be sure this break up is not related to some other system failure which may badly appear in the next days (after a real installation). Lacking wmp9 won't hurt, but system hanging will. During my latest trial I was even able to watch some embedded wmv into IE8 so I'm quite sure the multimedia system is working and the crash of wmplayer.exe is taking less and less relevance.

Ok, filemon (hey, finding this tool isn't easy at all, anyway!) tells wmp can't find some components. The strange is: 1) these libraries are neither wer.dll nor ieshims.dll 2) missing libraries exist on the system! They are into windows\system32 but wmp can't find them. I can confirm this behaviour on my latest hfslip-streamed system also, this one is built with no extra/unknown/dx9 packages. Wmp9 is the only executable showing this problem.

Ok, filemon (hey, finding this tool isn't easy at all, anyway!) tells wmp can't find some components. The strange is: 1) these libraries are neither wer.dll nor ieshims.dll 2) missing libraries exist on the system! They are into windows\system32 but wmp can't find them.

Well, I definitively do NOT need them! BTW, can someone explain strange messages from hfslip during archive extraction (the first stage)? Sometimes I can read "0 files extracted", why this? Does MS provide empty hotfixes? Further, some file shows "access denied" but the folder was created by me, I'm sure I have full access to the files! Can't figure out this. FIX: the strange messages are not from hfslip: they are localized, so they're coming from self-extractors.

Aren't they useful? Are they too many?

Uh??? What a strange strategy: removing software packages in order to achieve more installed software?

Just installed my shiny new slipstreamed winxp sp3 in a virtual machine and wmp9 doesn't work! It complains it is not installed the right way. I checked the executable via dependencywalker and I saw two dll are missing: IESHIMS.DLL and WER.DLL (screenshot attached). I used winxp pro with sp3, adding ie8 and each and every hotfix and update suggested by Mimo, except for wmp11. You can see this in my hfslip.log. What went wrong? Where can I get these libraries? hfslip_1.zip