XP MCE 2002 and Media Player 11 - any hope? ljb 12/28/2008 12:47:00 AM I've read in many places that MCE 2002 does not support Media Player 11. But I received a Kodak WiFi Digital Frame for Christmas that requires Media Player 11 to display photos from my computer. Is there any work-around for this? I've spent hours trying to install MP 11 - and it works fine, but it's really MP 10. The screen is the old version, and does not have the Library tab, so I know it's not working correctly. My Control Panel shows that I have Service Pack 3 installed (not sure if that matters) but it doesn't display a date of installation. I am willing to give up Media Center - don't use it anyway. One thing I tried was installing MP 11 in pieces per a post on afterdawn.com. It still came back as MP 10 (but says it's 11). I really don't want to tell my daughter-in-law that her Christmas present won't work because my operating system won't support it. If there is no answer, should I replace the OS with Vista? What is easiest/least expensive? I'm really happy with the computer (Dell Dimension, Intel 4, 3.0 GHz, 1.9 GB RAM), and it's not even 3 years old. Any hope or advice? Thanks in advance! Leslie -- ljb

Re: XP MCE 2002 and Media Player 11 - any hope? "S.Sengupta" <ssengupta_[ at ]msn.com.invalid> 12/28/2008 1:52:35 AM Unfortunately Windows Media Player 11 for Windows XP cannot be installed on computers running Windows XP Media Center Edition 2002. If you like to go for Vista then check your system with 'Windows Vista Upgrade Advisor' http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-vista/get/upgrade-advisor.aspx regards, S.Sengupta[MS-MVP] ljb wrote: [Quoted Text] > I've read in many places that MCE 2002 does not support Media Player 11. But > I received a Kodak WiFi Digital Frame for Christmas that requires Media > Player 11 to display photos from my computer. > Is there any work-around for this? I've spent hours trying to install MP 11 > - and it works fine, but it's really MP 10. The screen is the old version, > and does not have the Library tab, so I know it's not working correctly. > My Control Panel shows that I have Service Pack 3 installed (not sure if > that matters) but it doesn't display a date of installation. > I am willing to give up Media Center - don't use it anyway. One thing I > tried was installing MP 11 in pieces per a post on afterdawn.com. It still > came back as MP 10 (but says it's 11). > I really don't want to tell my daughter-in-law that her Christmas present > won't work because my operating system won't support it. > If there is no answer, should I replace the OS with Vista? What is > easiest/least expensive? I'm really happy with the computer (Dell Dimension, > Intel 4, 3.0 GHz, 1.9 GB RAM), and it's not even 3 years old. > Any hope or advice? > Thanks in advance! > Leslie

XP MCE 2002 and Media Player 11 - any hope? ljb 12/28/2008 2:20:01 AM Thanks so much for the reply. It's not the news I wanted to hear, but apparently it's the only answer. My computer can upgrade to Vista (with a new video card and some minor software adjustments) but I'm not sure I'm game for that yet. Guess I'll just get the photos on the frame through USB for now. Oh, and the frame can access my Kodak Gallery account, so it's extra painful that it can't access my drive. Is it true that support for XP ends in April? Maybe that provides incentive to get to Vista. -- ljb

Re: XP MCE 2002 and Media Player 11 - any hope? "S.Sengupta" <ssengupta_[ at ]msn.com.invalid> 12/28/2008 2:29:47 AM Yes. Ref:- http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/default.aspx?sort=PN&alpha=WINDOWS+XP&Filter=FilterNO regards, S.Sengupta[MS-MVP] ljb wrote: [Quoted Text] > Thanks so much for the reply. It's not the news I wanted to hear, but > apparently it's the only answer. My computer can upgrade to Vista (with a > new video card and some minor software adjustments) but I'm not sure I'm game > for that yet. Guess I'll just get the photos on the frame through USB for > now. Oh, and the frame can access my Kodak Gallery account, so it's extra > painful that it can't access my drive. > Is it true that support for XP ends in April? Maybe that provides incentive > to get to Vista.

Re: XP MCE 2002 and Media Player 11 - any hope? "Doug" <datapod[ at ]yahoo.com> 12/28/2008 4:22:41 PM ljb wrote: [Quoted Text] >> I've read in many places that MCE 2002 does not support Media Player >> 11. But I received a Kodak WiFi Digital Frame for Christmas that >> requires Media Player 11 to display photos from my computer. >> Is there any work-around for this? I've spent hours trying to >> install MP 11 - and it works fine, but it's really MP 10. The >> screen is the old version, and does not have the Library tab, so I >> know it's not working correctly. >> My Control Panel shows that I have Service Pack 3 installed (not >> sure if that matters) but it doesn't display a date of installation. >> I am willing to give up Media Center - don't use it anyway. One >> thing I tried was installing MP 11 in pieces per a post on >> afterdawn.com. It still came back as MP 10 (but says it's 11). >> I really don't want to tell my daughter-in-law that her Christmas >> present won't work because my operating system won't support it. >> If there is no answer, should I replace the OS with Vista? What is >> easiest/least expensive? I'm really happy with the computer (Dell >> Dimension, Intel 4, 3.0 GHz, 1.9 GB RAM), and it's not even 3 years >> old. >> Any hope or advice? >> Thanks in advance! >> Leslie >> -- >> ljb It's very unlikely you have Media Center 2002 if you have a three year old Dell. You almost certainly have MCE 2005. To see your Media Center Edition version start Media Center and click Settings> General> About Media Center> Software Version. If you do find as I suspect that you have MCE 2005 you may have an incorrect ident value set in the registry. See the "Ident Set" utility [ at ] http://www.salloway.org.uk/mediacenter/util/index.htm#ident D