Installing a newer Media Player version in Windows 2000

[MSUser2013]

I decided to port newer Windows Media Player Versions into to older windows versions (Windows 98/2000/Me), Here are my attempts

Windows Media Player 8 (Was only available for Windows XP at the time)

1. Install WMP7 and WMP7.1
2. Copy the WMP8 Files and DLLs from Windows XP RTM into Windows 2000 (Installing it doesn't work, It tells you it needs Windows XP to work but lets you install, but doesn't show the components list)
3. It *sort of* works


It has so many UI bugs, Which DLL is responsible for this?

However, it's somewhat decent in skin mode


Windows Media Player 10

As mentioned in this post, WMP10 RTM utilizes a function in Kernel32.DLL that's only in Windows XP SP1 or newer, There are workarounds to this as mentioned below, Once i get around to trying them, I'll post about it later

[q3hardcore]

Can't you just install WMP9 on Windows 2000?

[pyrobisqit]

Do you know Wine? There was kind of a movement in order to make older Windows version ran Windows programs which were only available for more recent editions. Wine is a layer used to run Windows games in Linux, from which ReactOS (which is a free Windows clone) has emerged.

[MSUser2013]

Do you know Wine? There was kind of a movement in order to make older Windows version ran Windows programs which were only available for more recent editions. Wine is a layer used to run Windows games in Linux, from which ReactOS (which is a free Windows clone) has emerged.

KernelEX was an unoffical SP for Windows 98/Me that does a similar thing

I also plan on porting WMP10 and 11 to Windows 2000 once WMP8 is finished, I could upload a copy of the WMP8 Files to mediafire if interested to run WMP8 in Windows 2000 or NT4 (with IE4), I know there are some DLLs inside System32 that WMP installs (wmpcore.dll for example), Which also need to be added for manually installing
EDIT: I decided to reset this project by simply installing the newest RC build of WMP8, Replacing some components (Skins and such) with newer versions (From Windows XP RTM's Media Player), As well as editing the About dialog so it says "Windows Media Player" instead of "Windows Media Player for Windows XP", So this would make as an "RTM" of WMP8 for Windows NT4/98 and Newer

[dewaterfall]

Do you know Wine? There was kind of a movement in order to make older Windows version ran Windows programs which were only available for more recent editions. Wine is a layer used to run Windows games in Linux, from which ReactOS (which is a free Windows clone) has emerged.

KernelEX was an unoffical SP for Windows 98/Me that does a similar thing

I also plan on porting WMP10 and 11 to Windows 2000 once WMP8 is finished, I could upload a copy of the WMP8 Files to mediafire if interested to run WMP8 in Windows 2000 or NT4 (with IE4), I know there are some DLLs inside System32 that WMP installs (wmpcore.dll for example), Which also need to be added for manually installing
EDIT: I decided to reset this project by simply installing the newest RC build of WMP8, Replacing some components (Skins and such) with newer versions (From Windows XP RTM's Media Player), As well as editing the About dialog so it says "Windows Media Player" instead of "Windows Media Player for Windows XP", So this would make as an "RTM" of WMP8 for Windows NT4/98 and Newer

If it is possible to, I can help you to port WMP 12 from Windows 7 into Windows 2000! If it isn't possible to port WMP 12 into Windows 2000, what are the exact hurdles preventing it from being possible?

[MSUser2013]

*snip*
If it is possible to, I can help you to port WMP 12 from Windows 7 into Windows 2000! If it isn't possible to port WMP 12 into Windows 2000, what are the exact hurdles preventing it from being possible?

The thing is, WMP12 was only meant for Windows 7, It could be possible to port to Vista, But for XP or 2000, I doubt it's possible to port it, WMP11 is similar to WMP12, With only a few Differences, I could try porting WMP10 and 11 to Windows 2000

[CaptainPeanut]

. . .
(NOTE : This is a critical situation where dots were needed)
Exact reasons to preventing it from being possible : Development of Windows.

[LoneCrusader]

*snip*I could try porting WMP10 and 11 to Windows 2000

. . .
(NOTE : This is a critical situation where dots were needed)
Exact reasons to preventing it from being possible : Development of Windows.

Well... If WMP10 can be ported to Windows 98, then it certainly should be possible for Windows 2000.
As for the later versions, I have no idea, but there no reason not to try.

[MSUser2013]

Well, I decided to try installing WMP10, By copying the files from the extracted MP10SETUP.EXE into the appropriate location, Then i installed GDI+ which is required for WMP10 to work, However, When i try to start it, I got the lovely "The procedure entry point GetUserGeoID could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" error message

Is there any workarounds to this error?

[z180]

You don't understand the shown message.
I assume NOPing function calls and editing PE imports is too difficult to for you.

[Zv45Beta]

Well, I decided to try installing WMP10, By copying the files from the extracted MP10SETUP.EXE into the appropriate location, Then i installed GDI+ which is required for WMP10 to work, However, When i try to start it, I got the lovely "The procedure entry point GetUserGeoID could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" error message

Is there any workarounds to this error?

Outdated Kernel32.dll, i doubt you can fix this. Probably WMP10 uses entry points unavailable in older Windows.

[WinPC]

Have you tried porting Internet Explorer 7 to the earlier versions of Windows? I would personally be very interested in seeing this myself.

[AlphaBeta]

Well, I decided to try installing WMP10, By copying the files from the extracted MP10SETUP.EXE into the appropriate location, Then i installed GDI+ which is required for WMP10 to work, However, When i try to start it, I got the lovely "The procedure entry point GetUserGeoID could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" error message

Is there any workarounds to this error?

Maybe it will work with the Unofficial Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000. It adds some new functions into tke Kernel32 library, as far as I remember from the MSFN forums

[DeFacto]

I seriously doubt that any version of WMP meant for Vista and up would work on Windows 2000...

[MSUser2013]

Well, I decided to try installing WMP10, By copying the files from the extracted MP10SETUP.EXE into the appropriate location, Then i installed GDI+ which is required for WMP10 to work, However, When i try to start it, I got the lovely "The procedure entry point GetUserGeoID could not be located in the dynamic link library KERNEL32.dll" error message
Is there any workarounds to this error?

Maybe it will work with the Unofficial Service Pack 5 for Windows 2000. It adds some new functions into tke Kernel32 library, as far as I remember from the MSFN forums

I'll try that, I know WinPC said someone got WMP10 to work on Windows 2000 using KernelEx, Maybe I'll try that as well, It would be easier to use a beta version of WMP10 for this experiment

Outdated Kernel32.dll, i doubt you can fix this. Probably WMP10 uses entry points unavailable in older Windows.

A beta version of WMP10 *might* be easier to get working than the RTM (which is what i tried with this experiment), And might not utilize those extra functions not available in Kernel32.DLL in Windows 2000, But still, As said above, Workarounds exist for this situation

[WinPC]

I'll try that, I know WinPC said someone got WMP10 to work on Windows 2000 using KernelEx, Maybe I'll try that as well, It would be easier to use a beta version of WMP10 for this experiment.

I'm not sure where you thought I said that, unless I already posted it and somehow forgot. I also don't remember saying such about Windows Media Player 10 either, unless I was accidentally referring to the version used in this topic by the wrong name.

[MSUser2013]

I'm not sure where you thought I said that, unless I already posted it and somehow forgot. I also don't remember saying such about Windows Media Player 10 either, unless I was accidentally referring to the version used in this topic by the wrong name.

http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewto ... 93#p330993

[As far as I know, someone here managed to get a newer version of Windows Media Player to work on Windows 2000 using KernelEx, even though KernelEx's functions are mostly already in Windows 2000 (this particular case was a notable exception, since KernelEx added the updated code that was apparently introduced with Windows XP, possibly with one of the Service Pack releases).

You didn't mentioned the version of the Media Player, But i just assume it was WMP10 considering the latest version officially supported for Windows 2000 is WMP9

[WinPC]

I'm not sure where you thought I said that, unless I already posted it and somehow forgot. I also don't remember saying such about Windows Media Player 10 either, unless I was accidentally referring to the version used in this topic by the wrong name.

http://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewto ... 93#p330993

[As far as I know, someone here managed to get a newer version of Windows Media Player to work on Windows 2000 using KernelEx, even though KernelEx's functions are mostly already in Windows 2000 (this particular case was a notable exception, since KernelEx added the updated code that was apparently introduced with Windows XP, possibly with one of the Service Pack releases).

You didn't mentioned the version of the Media Player, But i just assume it was WMP10 considering the latest version officially supported for Windows 2000 is WMP9

Nope, I was referring strictly to this topic. Sorry for any confusion that it may have caused.