Puzzled at installing Windows Media Player 10 from WPI

[RJTPlomp]

Dear forum fellows,

For a week I've been trying to install Windows Media Player 10. I have a basic Windows XP Pro (SP2) Corporate Edition to start with, it installs unattended, TEXT-mode and GUI-drivers are loaded as they should... not a cloud on the sky. I am one of those peole that think that further messing with the original installation source is not a secure thing, so what comes after SP2 I install silently after...

But then... I want to add WMP10 to the scene.

I've tried it from RunOnceEx with the command:

MP10Setup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /P:#e /DisallowSystemRestore"

I've tried it from WPI with the same command. And I tried it by putting the command into a batch file that runs from WPI. But to no avail. When I start up WMP10 after installation has completed I get the WMP Intro screen, I can set the settings, I click Finish and the a message pops up saying WMP wasn't installed properly, and am asked if I want to install it from the internet again.... I'm puzzled.

What I do do is after the WMP10 installation (described above), is adding the following updates and hotfixes:

WindowsMedia-KB891122-x86-ENU.exe /Q /Z

WindowsMedia10-KB917734-x86-ENU.exe /Q /Z

windowsmedia10-kb902344-x86-intl.exe /Q /Z

Do these mess it up?

Is there anyone that can help me solve this weird puzzle. I've searched the net and this forum for a clue.. but have found anything. Any information is welcomed!

Roland

Dordrecht, The Netherlands

[RJTPlomp]

Just found another clue myself. It could have to do with a service that is newly installed with MP10 called Windows User Mode Driver Framework. It could be that it is not started just after install. It would have to be after the first reboot. I'll check that first. I will let the outcome know.

[RJTPlomp]

Nope, it's not the service that's causing the problem.

So anyone any ideas?

[Sonic]

Without updates, does it works ?

[RJTPlomp]

Without updates, does it works ?

Sonic I tried the installation without anything else than WMP 10 tonight. Installing from WPI that is.

The error I get is:

Windows Media Player

The file wmploc.dll has a version number of 10.0.0.3802 where 9.0.0.3250 was expected.

Windows Media Player is not installed properly and must be reinstalled.

Do you want to install the Player from the Microsoft Web site?

So somehow the sytem expects WMP 9?

Still puzzled... any suggestions?

I the forum I found a remark that someone was able to get WMP 10 installed from RunOnceEx only.. maybe that's worth a try. Any help is still very welcome.

[Gruik]

Dear forum fellows,

For a week I've been trying to install Windows Media Player 10. I have a basic Windows XP Pro (SP2) Corporate Edition to start with, it installs unattended, TEXT-mode and GUI-drivers are loaded as they should... not a cloud on the sky. I am one of those peole that think that further messing with the original installation source is not a secure thing, so what comes after SP2 I install silently after...

But then... I want to add WMP10 to the scene.

I've tried it from RunOnceEx with the command:

MP10Setup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /P:#e /DisallowSystemRestore"

I've tried it from WPI with the same command. And I tried it by putting the command into a batch file that runs from WPI. But to no avail. When I start up WMP10 after installation has completed I get the WMP Intro screen, I can set the settings, I click Finish and the a message pops up saying WMP wasn't installed properly, and am asked if I want to install it from the internet again.... I'm puzzled.

What I do do is after the WMP10 installation (described above), is adding the following updates and hotfixes:

WindowsMedia-KB891122-x86-ENU.exe /Q /Z

WindowsMedia10-KB917734-x86-ENU.exe /Q /Z

windowsmedia10-kb902344-x86-intl.exe /Q /Z

Do these mess it up?

Is there anyone that can help me solve this weird puzzle. I've searched the net and this forum for a clue.. but have found anything. Any information is welcomed!

Roland

Dordrecht, The Netherlands

My method in a batch file called in "cmdlines.txt" is :

%systemdrive%\winapps\wmp\MPSetup.exe /q:A /c:"setup_wm.exe /Q /R:N /DisallowSystemRestore"

... and it works. (I've renamed main archive to be under 8 chars.)

[RJTPlomp]

We can close this thread. I still ahevn't solved the problem, but I'n now sure it has to do with installing it from WPI . When installing from runonce ex before WPI it install like a dream. I think it has something to do with the fact that WPI itself opens a media player activeX or something like that to enable the possibility to play mausic during install. So that keeps some media player components 'open' during install of WMP10, and so that install doesn't word as it should.

I will conntinue my search for a solution in the WPI sub forum now.

Thx all for the help!

Roland

[Sonic]

oups I have forgotten wmp embedded in wpi, I use wpi but a custom lite version so audio isn't present here ...

I think you're right about install from WPI with audio enable ... post the remark in WPI section to know if anyone has the bug too.