Welcome to Windows Media Player 9 Series

[bucketbuster]

How can I get rid of the WMP9 intro wizard?

This is what worked for me under SP1, but doesn't under SP2 anymore:

"AcceptedPrivacyStatement"=dword:00000001

[j4ever]

bump

[mwiner]

That's odd... it never worked for me in sp1 as part of my regtweaks.reg. But I found out that the setting gets over written later during the install (runonceex).

I ended up making a custom AMD file for group policies. This work for me on sp1 and sp2

[bucketbuster]

I don't use group policies and to be honest I don't know anything about them.

Can they be silently applied during Unattended install?

[prathapml]

No, you don't really need all that....

Just these in your registry:

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
"AcceptedPrivacyStatement"=dword:00000001
"FirstRun"=dword:00000000

;Media Player License Autoaccept
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMediaPlayer]
"GroupPrivacyAcceptance"=dword:00000001

All of those regtweaks are to be applied through cmdlines (T-12). And searching would have given you this solution a bit sooner disable first-run in SP2's WMP9

I had the same problem with SP2 too! It was pretty simple as I later found out - do post back on how it goes.

[bucketbuster]

@prathapml

It WORKED.

I did search for it, but used the wrong searchwords.

I searched for: welcome to windows ,which didn't return any usable results.

Thanks again

[mwiner]

Hurm...... never knew about the

"FirstRun"=dword:00000000

maybe that was my problem. I knew about the other two but it wouldn't work. Virtual PC here I come.

Thanks

[j4ever]

just this morning my windows media player 9 downloaded an update and then i got that stupid screen back! is their a way to slipstream wmp9 updates into xp?

[prathapml]

just this morning my windows media player 9 downloaded an update and then i got that stupid screen back!

If you have those 3 tweaks above, imported into windows registry - you'll never see the first-run of WMP9, no matter what.

is there a way to slipstream wmp9 updates into xp?

If you've slip-streamed SP2 into your XP CD, you'll not need to have an update patch for quite some time. SP2 is the latest update you will need - no others are needed if you have that.