Windows Media Player 10 - Installation Problems

I am hoping somebody can help me with this. I've been trying to upgrade to WMP 10, but whenever I run the install I get a message that says "An unexpected error has occurred. Setup was not able to detect any Windows Media updates. Please try again later." I've tried to find information on this, but so far haven't had any luck.

 

What OS and service pack?

 

I have Windows XP, Service Pack 2

 

SP2 should already have WMP10

But you can just download it here

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/default.aspx

 

FWIW, SP2 comes with Media Player 9. No biggie but I thought I'd mention it.

 

FYI, I've already downloaded it. It just won't install.

 

Launch WMP and click about and make sure it is not WMP10
Then if it is not, go to add/ remove programs / windows components / windows media player and uninstall it .
Then try installing wmp10

 

I tried what you suggested, but still am getting the message

 

Have you tried installing it using windowsupdate?

 

I finally found out what was going on. Turns out I may not have been getting any Windows updates at all "“ at least for awhile. When I went to Windows Update, I got an error that said I needed to download an XML Parser from the Microsoft web site. After I installed that, everything worked perfectly. I was getting my automatic updates before, so it never occurred to me that something was wrong there. Thank for all the suggestions.