Windows Media Player 12 skin for Windows XP

Are you looking for Windows Media player 12 look alike for Windows XP ? Deviantart user fediaFedia has ported the Windows Media Player 12 skin for windows vista to XP.

Free download WMP 12 Skin For XP fromhere.If you happen to have a newer (or older) version of WMP11 on windows XP, you can easily change the version info as mentioned below and use it.

• 1. Open reshacker
• 2. Drag and drop the wmploc.dll into reshacker
• 3. Go to Version Info, expand it, expand 1 and click 1033
• 4. You will see the following values:
  VALUE “CompanyName”, “Microsoft Corporation”
  VALUE “FileDescription”, “Windows Media Player Resources”
  VALUE “FileVersion”, “11.0.5721.5230 (WMP_11.061018-2006)”
  VALUE “InternalName”, “wmploc.dll”
  VALUE “LegalCopyright”, “© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.”
  VALUE “OriginalFilename”, “wmploc.dll”
  VALUE “ProductName”, “Microsoft® Windows® Operating System”
  VALUE “ProductVersion”, “11.0.5721.5230″

You will have to modify values for “FileVersion” and “ProductVersion”. Type your version of WMP11 as follows:

• VALUE “ProductVersion”, “11.0.5721.XXXX”
• VALUE “FileVersion”, “11.0.5721.XXXX (WMP_11.061018-2006)”

where XXXX need to be replaced by your WMP version number.

• 5. Click Compile script in reshack and save wmploc.dll
• 6. Use the above modified wmploc.dll to replace your version of wmploc.dll, by following the installation instructions here. Take a backup of your version of wmploc.dll before doing such installation

Installing the above skin requires you to change system files and registry entries. Hence doing this incorrectly may cause Windows or some of its components to stop working properly. you are hereby advised to make proper back-ups, before actually changing anything.

If you like to remove the black box that appears around videos go to Options > Performance and change the Video border color to (R:249 G:250 B:254).

Enjoy Windows Media Player 12 skin For Windows XP!!!