Windows Vista Windows Media Player Won't Work & Won't Uninstall

Hello all :l
My computer Specs are as followed:

Intel Emachines W3623
Windows Vista Basic
Intel Pentium 4 Processor
512 MB DDR2
Intel Media Graphics Accelerator 950

Here is the problem. As of, maybe, 6 months ago Windows Media Player stopped working for me. Well, I hardly ever use it anyway since I use VLC but now I think it is affecting my computer performance. My reasoning behind this is I noticed everytime I start up my computer if I press CTRL Alt Del Right away and bring up my task manager I see WMPLAYER.EXE constantly closing and opening (too quick for me to end the process) and causing my computer to have crappy performance for the first hour or so its on.

So, I decided I'd try to delete it. Well, ofc like all stupid things on vista its gonna tell me I don't have permission (even though I'm the only user on this computer, no other accounts have ever been created)
So, I went into its properties of the folder to try and give myself permission (which I know how to do) but every time I tried to add myself as having all permissions it would give me this error:
An Error has occurred while adding security information to: (filename and location). This error pops up for all files in the WMPlayer location not allowing me access to any of them.

This is (of course) one of a million problems I'm having with Vista. Most of them revolving around what a pain it is to get certain things deleted.

I have also tried going to the Add/Remove programs function of the Control Panel but it doesn't even list Windows Media Player there as a available option. Also when I click on the wm_setup.exe in my wmplayer folder trying to delete or repair it with that it tells me that it can't be open because a more up to date version of WMPlayer is on my computer...well it isn't :l unless somehow its in a folder that isn't named anything to do with WMPlayer and is a file that has a totally different name too. I've searched everywhere :l

If anyone can shoot me some advice I would greatly appreciate it.

 

Start -> Run type each of the lines below and press Ok and see if Media Player will work:

c:\regsvr32 vbscript.dll

c:\regsvr32 jscript.dll

 

You have very little RAM to run Vista. 1GB of RAM is probably minimal. If you have 512MB of RAM, Vista will probably just get slower and slower (and maybe seem like it is not going to open programs, when it can no longer put them into RAM and start needing to put them into Pagefile on the hard disk drive).

Don't delete something to uninstall it...please! Programs should be uninstalled. If you delete (Windows system) programs, the registry could be kaput, unless it is a very, very simple program. If you cannot uninstall Windows programs, they are "built-in ", you will only trash your system by deleting them. You will need to find another method like using System Restore.

If you have deleted or are deleting program folders to uninstall them, it is probably the start of your problems, not the end.

Matt

 

try to download and install windows media player 11

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...14-E238-4E45-8668-5166114010CA&displaylang=en