Is it possible to remove visualization plugins from Windows Media Player 11

[Azzan]

Hello Friends

I would like to know that is it possible to remove visualization plugins from Windows Media Player 11? Do any one knows how can i do that? Please guide me to do so. Any information related to this would be appreciated.

Thanking you in advance.

[Macarenas]

Try doing a system restore to the time before you changed things. Click on Start Menu--> All Programs--> Accessories--> System Tools and then click on System Restore and put the date. If you want to go back preferably a month or so before you changed things around, it will restore the PC to what was on it on that date, you will lose everything that you did from that time.

[chroma]

You can do that by editing your registry keys.

Follow the below steps mention to remove visualisations from the windows media player 11.

Go to

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/
MediaPlayer/Objects/Effects

Here you will find keys relating to the visualisations, click on the key of the visualisation you want to remove then on the toolbar select File and then Export, give the file a name that identifies the visualisation and save it to a backup folder

Now open the key of the visualisation you want to remove and then open the properties key. Make a note of the classid number, the format looks something like this example

{0A767E66-4D5E-11d5-A8AF-00105AC582C2}

Select the key of the visualisation you want to remove again and press delete.

Now go to

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/CLSID

and look for the key with the number you copied down

Select this key, on the toolbar select File and then Export.
Give the file a name that identifies the visualisation and save it to the backup folder

In this key are 2 subkeys, InprocServer32 and TypeLib, open the InprocServer32 key and check that the default data points to C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\Visualizations\name Of Visualisation.dll

Re-select the key with the long number and press delete. Now when you open windows media player the visualisation has gone from its list.

Hope so this may help you out.

[Raine]

Hey you can also try out by unregistering your DLL with regsvr32.

Eg. regsvr32 /u :- "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\Visualizations\visualization-name.dll"