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Thank you and it works....I found instructions :-)
How to install Windows Media Player 11 without Windows Authentication We receive a lot of emails about installing Windows Media Player version 11 on a computer that has not passed Windows authentication. The problem is that when you download Windows Media Player version 11 from a Microsoft server (wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe) so during installation your welcome to Windows authentication. The joke is that ... ... the authentication mechanism is only in the installation package (wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe), just rename this file to wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.cab and expand it using Total Commander, and then run wmp11.exe (Windows Media Player 11) and wmfdist11.exe (Windows Media Format 11 Runtime).
wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe download
Download File https://t.co/pWeoNEuDkG
You can extract the files that are included in wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe by the following command line, without installing the Media Player:
wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe /T:c:\extract /C
l3codecp.acm is included in the extracted file wmp11.exe:
c:\extract\wmp11.exe /T:c:\extract\wmp11 /C
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