Windows 7 Blue theme for Windows Media Player 12
Bored of the way your Windows Media Player looks? Want to customize your WMP 12 ? Here is a nice way to change the look of your Windows Media Player 12.
Once you have download the file from Deviantart, navigate to C:\Windows\System32 folder and find wmploc.dll.
Take ownership of wmploc.dll.
Copy it to your desktop and save it as a backup copy.
As an additional safety measure, rename the original wmploc.dll in the system32 folder as wmploc.dll.old, so that it remains as an additional backup in your system32 folder.
Now copy the new downloaded wmploc.dll into the system32 folder.
Open Windows Media Player and see the difference!
I tried it. Worked like a charm.
Sould any problem arise, one can always run the System File Checker.
Download file from Deviantart : 32-bit | 64-bit.
Comments
on March 13th, 2010 at 2:49 PM
“Take ownership of wmploc.dll”
I had trouble taking ownership of the .dll file.
I was using the R. click> properties> security tab> edit I was allowed to keep the full control when I clicked “OK”.
Is there a way you could suggest that would allow me to be able to add the .old tag and thus use the new .dll?
on March 13th, 2010 at 2:53 PM
Edit of above:
I was allowed to keep the full control when I clicked “OK”. Should be, I was “not” allowed to keep the full control when I clicked “OK”.
on March 13th, 2010 at 3:08 PM
Use UWT to ‘Add take ownership’ option, easily to your right click context menu, easily.
Click Yes to the prompts…
on March 13th, 2010 at 3:20 PM
Thank you very much. That is quite helpful.
on March 13th, 2010 at 5:22 PM
I got it to work. It looks really good with a blue Win 7 theme.
I had UWT v2.0 so I got the new version and took care of that too!
on March 24th, 2010 at 12:52 PM
I have a problem with version number.
I can not run the wmp after replace.
Error message show “The wmploc.dll has a version number of 12.0.7600.16415 where 12.0.7600.16385 was expected”
on March 24th, 2010 at 4:16 PM
^ Do a System Restore or Run sfc /scannow
on July 28th, 2010 at 12:21 AM
I have followed all the instruction but yet there is no change in my w. m. player can you people help me?
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