WMP11 – Install Windows Media Player 11 without activating / bypass WGA
Contributed by Jimmy Selix 
Tagged: Windows This recipe will explain how to install Windows Media Player 11 without having to Activate your windows copy / bypassing the WGA. This requires Winzip or any other .zip extracting program to be installed.
Bypassing the activation when installing Windows Media Player 11 is pretty simple. Basically what we will do is download the setup file (.exe) and then extract its contents to a folder and manually run the two components needed to install and run Media Player 11.
1. Download Windows Media Player 11. Go here to download.
2. After you have the file downloaded (usually named: wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe), right-click on the File.
If you have Winzip installed, go to the Winzip menu, and choose to Extract to Folder X:\…\wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu
A lot of .exe setup files are really just a self-executing zip file so you can use this method to extract files from .exe files with other installers too (ie device driver installers, if you only want the driver files and not the other ‘fluff’ that sometimes come with the installer.)
4. Once you do this, you will see a folder called wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu. Go into the folder and now we will manually run the two files needed for Windows Media Player 11 to install.
First run: wmfdist11.exe
This is the media player 11 runtime files.
Gp through the installation wizard and then run: wmp11.exe
This will in turn install Windows Media Player 11 and will bypass the activation part of the installer.
Once you finish the install, reboot and you should now have a working Windows Media Player 11 that will not require activation and in turn allow you to install on a non-activated XP install.
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isaac said on October 5, 2008
tnx…
it really worx; awesome
tnk u very much mua mua
karmen said on October 14, 2008
tnx a lot!!!
Bob's your uncle said on October 21, 2008
Thanks a million, was looking for a way round this
Tikuru said on October 28, 2008
Thanx but… Yes Thanx
Not now that my peny should go to the richest guy in planet
herhrehrdthr said on November 14, 2008
Thanks a lot!
You are genious :D
DAn said on November 18, 2008
I did exactly as your recipe instructed and after a reboot I started WMP and it’s asking me to Validate. Do I need to uninstall WMP first and then run the new installer?
drkalo said on November 20, 2008
Dan, may be you need another restart after installing the runtimes I guess. I followed these steps and it worked perfectly for me (they are pretty much the same as seamonkey’s except step #4
1. Download WMP11.
2. Extract (unrar or unzip) wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe by using extraction tool such as WinRAR.
3. Go to the extracted folder, and execute (run) wmfdist11.exe.
4. Restart the computer.
5. Execute wmp11.exe from the extracted folder.
6. Restart the computer.
7. Start using Windows Media Player 11.
I am using a x86 XPsp3 copy of ms windows which appeared not to be genuine but this method really bypasses activation by the wga tool.
Mr. expert said on November 21, 2008
Wonderful. It really did work. I was aiming at installing WMP 11 For the last six months but could not succeed until i reached this page.
exex said on November 27, 2008
thanx
jabastin said on December 10, 2008
thanxxxxxx a lot buddy
i was tryin to install windows media player 11 for past 8 mon but u made it happen
hari said on December 10, 2008
thanx dude
A W said on January 6, 2009
I am using XP 64 and this doesn’t work. I’m now lumped with a validation notice instead of the ability to play media files.
El said on January 19, 2009
TERIMA-KASIH ….Thanks a million….muah…muah…!!!
gm said on January 30, 2009
Thank you thank you thank you :)))
fsdfsdf said on February 2, 2009
Thanks
Richard Cranium said on February 7, 2009
Or you could just go into the Windows Media Player folder in programs folder and delete LegitLibM.dll and delete it. Start WMP11 which bypasses WGA check once activated I undid the delete and it works just fine.
Ady said on February 21, 2009
THAnXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx alot dude….. the bypassing trick is awesome :D
RJ said on March 6, 2009
you rock…………………………!!!!!!
Heather said on March 14, 2009
You are THE BOMB!!!! After 3 friggin’ evenings of working on this to bypass the stupid Windows validation (that I should not have to do with my LEGAL and PAID copy of Windows), I came across this website and it worked with NO PROBLEMS!
IT WORKS said on March 17, 2009
Google ‘Download Media Player 11′ and download it.
Download Winrar
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar380.exe
- during the install make sure you tick the ‘Intergrate Winrar into shell’ box.
Extract the Windows Media Player 11 Installation file ‘wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu.exe’ to a folder of your choice. You can do this easily by right clicking on the file and click ‘Extract To …’
Go to the folder you just extracted everything to
Run ‘wmfdist11.exe’ Do Not Restart if it asks.
Run ‘wmp11.exe’ and restart the computer.
Now goto
C:Program FilesWindows Media Player
Look for the file named ‘LegitLibM.dll’
Right click and re-name it to ‘LegitLib.dll’.
Open Windows Media Player 11 and click the ‘Validate’ button.
Click the ‘Finish’ button.
Click the ‘Accept’ button
Chose the install type etc etc
Thankyou so much everyone. I spent hours googling ways to do this. This is the only method that worked for me.
Anounymous said on March 18, 2009
Im a computer nerd and 11 and found that out last year
Sim said on March 20, 2009
I’m not having everyone else’s success. I somehow disinstalled my WMP and for three days now cannot open files or Cds and have lost printer use. printer will not reinstall.
This recipe seems promising and I get as far as running wmfdist11.exe ok. But there is no wmp11.exe icon in the wmp11-windowsxp-x86-enu folder. I tried the wmp11 icon but it keeps ending up failed with the message FAILED TO INSTALL CATALOG FILES. this recipe is the nearest I have come to a solution, but previously I was trying the validation and thought my problem might be ’cause I’m in Italy but running in english. I read something about that.
If anyone can help me get over these final hurdles I’d be most obliged.
Baldomero said on March 23, 2009
it works !!!!!! just do what ” IT WORKS “said and the fproblem its gone !!
charly said on April 19, 2009
great trick friend…………………….. it works for me…………..
k ali said on April 22, 2009
It was awsome.Thanks a lot
It realy woking now after my some wary night of anxity.
prakash said on April 23, 2009
u r genious its work awesome.thanks
Trung Huan Nguyen said on April 25, 2009
thx a lot
faheed said on May 2, 2009
hi windows media player 11
Alpina_One said on May 10, 2009
awesome it worked! i was messing around with that legitbm/b.dll rubbish and this was by far the easiest method.
phuong said on May 16, 2009
thax you so mux =]]
Lidity said on May 17, 2009
Everytime I go to my Video section of WMP 11 it shuts down in error…any ideas why?
oshman said on May 23, 2009
Sounds good, i’ll try it. Thx
Sakeeb said on May 29, 2009
Dude it works!!!!
Garben said on June 10, 2009
thanks a lot :) thank you vry very much..
ATS said on June 18, 2009
thx a LOT…. really gr888888888888888888..
andrew said on July 9, 2009
thank you..it works
njs said on July 9, 2009
AND YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!……………IT WORKS, 10X A MILLION..
Anonymous said on July 19, 2009
this worked for me when the others on this page wouldn’t
Anonymous said on August 3, 2009
Thank You Very Much
Anonymous said on September 3, 2009
Worked a treat!
chowdary said on September 4, 2009
its working.
thanka a lot my dear friend.
Name said on September 13, 2009
Thxkbai
Anonymous said on November 15, 2009
superb man, i like your work.
thnx
Muhammad Adnan Hanif said on November 15, 2009
Dear Friend;
Thanks a lot for this favor.
dale said on November 22, 2009
thanyou it helps!!
mehul said on November 25, 2009
wow! that was a great help… thanks a ton
Anonymous said on November 27, 2009
hello. I am unable to get wmp11 to run after doing all these steps. It keeps giving me the VALIDATE YOUR COPY OF WINDOWS message, even after I deleted the WGA file. I am running XP Pro & SP3. Can someone please send me in the right direction ? I have been working on this sooo long now…..
Thanks in advance :)
Anonymous said on December 6, 2009
does this works with vista???
af said on December 26, 2009
Works Perfectly!
awesome
yaxiri@gmail.com said on December 27, 2009
Thanks Bro! It works!
akash said on January 1, 2010
thanks bro its awesome!!!!!
working fine with my xp sp2 !!!!!!!!!!1
rockssssssssss
Sujatha said on January 1, 2010
this just excellent and wonderful..it worked for me…..great thanls
Anonymous said on January 1, 2010
thank you
marenette_martin said on January 5, 2010
thanks a lot..! it works..! thanks…
Anonymous said on January 23, 2010
I LOVES YOU MAN NOT IN GAY WAYS
Anonymous said on January 27, 2010
Thanks a Lot. I hope this will surely Work
Anonymous said on January 28, 2010
It seems this method working for other than sp3 pack, I did exactly what it says, but when I try to launch wmp11 it brings the valdiation page and therefore didnt work, any body has success with sp3 for xp OS?
would appreciate successful input.
thanks
Anonymous said on January 29, 2010
Thanks it really works
Anonymous said on February 12, 2010
@IT WORKS:
>> Hey thanks man!!!
Bill Gates said on February 17, 2010
sweet!
Anonymous said on February 19, 2010
not working not working
Anonymous said on February 20, 2010
Are you sure? I used Tiny XP Rev.09 and I thought it wouldn’t work. But I followed the steps and now I have the WMP11 running without any slowing process. My PC is 1Ghz and only 384MB. And web is a good source of beauties. Try again and remember shutdown after each .exe otherwise you won’t see soon.
Benny said on February 27, 2010
why ain’t mine working then……followed each n every steps
Benny said on February 27, 2010
no help with sp3…….Ontariooh
Anonymous said on February 27, 2010
thx a lot… such a cool trick!
Anonymous said on March 3, 2010
its nice its happens cool yaar…………………..
Anonymous said on March 8, 2010
Thanks a lot!
You are genious :D:D
it really worx; awesome
Anonymous said on March 18, 2010
Yeah! It really works!!!
Anonymous said on March 18, 2010
Yeah! It Really works well!!!
Anonymous said on March 27, 2010
Thx, none of the other worked, but this did! Thx alot!
Anonymous said on April 6, 2010
Tnx a bunch. U r a Genius…
Anonymous said on April 9, 2010
genius! tnx,,,
Buzzer said on April 11, 2010
It works well.Thank you
(runtime setup first,wmp11 setup second,restart,sucess:)
BazTheRaz said on April 15, 2010
After uninstalling, installing and rebooting many times. IT Works method worked! Many thanks.
benny said on April 17, 2010
hey it works for xp sp 2 bt sp 3……………….?!?!???!??!
Anonymous said on May 3, 2010
hey dudei ts great real work its nice tricks to use WMA without validate
Anonymous said on May 5, 2010
OMG!!!! THANKS VERY MUCH!!! YOU DON”T KNOW HOW YOU MADE ME THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD!!! THANKS YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! I WORKED !!!!
KS said on May 7, 2010
Reallly awesome
Anymous said on May 7, 2010
You’re Genius It Working…..
But I LIKE IT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10000 Star
SREEDEEP said on May 7, 2010
Thanks alot. I firsty runned all exe file which caused problem. Ok thank you
Anonymous said on May 9, 2010
yaar it didnt work
Akbar said on May 15, 2010
i followed ur steps dear but it didnt worked ,after restarting it is again asking for validation ,pls dear help me out in installing wmp11.
Colbi said on May 19, 2010
Very nice, seamonkey…..it works like a charm…two thumbs up to you.
VaiBhAv said on May 19, 2010
awesome!!!….luv it!!…..i had tried all cracks of the file LegitlbM.dll but nthing worked…thanx man!! :)
Dennis Roy Ojeda said on May 24, 2010
Thank you very much
raaki said on May 25, 2010
thank you, this is working well, who invented this solution is great.
there is a solution for a each and every problem
essex said on May 25, 2010
now its working…..tanggo mucho..
deejaybb said on May 25, 2010
Thanks So Much Man :D it really works so well.
Kartikey said on June 3, 2010
not working !!
it automatically says after some time i run the files, that setup has been cancelled!
what to do…
johnny said on June 5, 2010
thank you!
thuluan phannguyen said on June 8, 2010
thank you very much
Devrajthkr said on June 13, 2010
Thank you very much
It works and is so simple process.
SgtMarshmellow said on June 13, 2010
damn thnxxx sooo much man
PIOUS_MAN90 said on June 13, 2010
IT REALLY WORKS
THANK U
PIOUS_MAN90
shin said on June 14, 2010
thank you!!!! :)
Sweetalbe said on June 20, 2010
YOU ARE THE BEST the # 1
thanks a lot : )
Kee_hoong said on June 23, 2010
thank you very much!!!!
Sunny said on June 25, 2010
wow……………………….its really working. thank you, thank you very much.
now i enjoy.———————————–SUNNY
Aerogirl1 said on June 26, 2010
it didn’t work for me, where did i went wrong
tsetso said on June 27, 2010
Does work :)
spike said on July 3, 2010
I followed the steps exactly and it did not work. Before I did this I had already tried to install the update which did not work and I had to perform a rollback to get 9 working again. I am not sure if this compromised the install butfor what ever reason I am dead in the water any other Ideas?
Ans Taha said on July 4, 2010
thank u very much u r rock
Philphat35 said on July 5, 2010
good one… simple and effective..thanx mate.
stondy walker said on July 5, 2010
Thanks,
it is working
ReApEr said on July 6, 2010
Thank Seamonkey this realy works!
Gnambeni said on July 7, 2010
guys thank you so much it work like a magic.
Denish92 said on July 13, 2010
not working
Ankitpathak05 said on July 15, 2010
thanx buddy it really works
Alex said on July 19, 2010
Thx a lot, you really helped me with that!
Joan said on July 19, 2010
thanks its work
really awesome…
Anonymous said on July 25, 2010
you ……are the boss……i only did
went to c-programe file and find legidlibm.bill and i turned it into legidlib.dill
and it works……….thank you very much
Goutah said on July 25, 2010
YES!!!!! Your the man, all the other ways did not work for me. This did!!! Thanks!!
Staher1190 said on July 27, 2010
thanx really its works
Sajeeb said on July 28, 2010
it works.thanks
Dasd- said on August 2, 2010
:D
Jackexcell said on August 3, 2010
haha so simple yet effective. Thanks for this.
Kurosaki_ichigo14 said on August 4, 2010
thank you.. very much..
Anuj_4u_me said on August 9, 2010
It works but still am not able to play WMV3 format movie?? plz help
Egezy11 said on August 13, 2010
thank you man you saved my life
Jakee said on August 26, 2010
you da man!
good work said on August 27, 2010
I updated my media player 9 to 11 and both doesn’t worked.i was gone crazy.but now i can use media player 11. THANK U SO MUCH!!!!
Prjwlpnd3 said on August 27, 2010
it does not play all formats
Karan Sanas said on August 28, 2010
Man u rock!!!
Deepak Agarwal said on September 6, 2010
Didn’t work for me! I have XP SP3. I did exactly as instructed but it still comes up with validation requirement. What am I doing wrong?
Deepak
Raghavnarain said on September 6, 2010
it worked for me xp sp2 thank you very much
Wayne said on September 7, 2010
how do i download it at my library. without having to deal with banned extentions
jimmyselix said on September 8, 2010
let me take a look again with SP3 and let you know what i find out. :)
Www Vishalsurati2000 said on September 8, 2010
i am trying for installing wmplayer 11w/o activating for few days but not succeed,but here from your site it`s simple and superb; great job !
Varun9687 said on September 18, 2010
Thanxx for ur precious advice…
it really works………..
Streetstyles said on September 18, 2010
man ! you’re a bloody genius !!! :D the world needs people like you ! mwaaaahzz !
Mustu_courageous said on September 19, 2010
AWesome Yaaar… Keep it UP
Bjoy said on September 24, 2010
jusT diD iT-gReaT
Brian78456 said on September 27, 2010
Thanks :D
Brian78456 said on September 27, 2010
I LUV IT!!!!!!!!!! it looks good :D
TC said on September 29, 2010
Thanks IT WORKS, your method worked fine
Vikrantme said on October 3, 2010
thanks for this. can u please tell me how to install wmp12 on xp?
pet said on October 17, 2010
great, absolutely working thanks.
Sheharyar said on October 19, 2010
thanks alot buddy, was looking for this for a long time…..
btw when are we getting wmp12 ? ;)
GIGI said on October 20, 2010
TNX ALOT MAN U RULE!
Myclipta said on October 27, 2010
Nice Work ..Thanks for your info
Mustafa Shahid said on October 29, 2010
thanx …. :D
Ramalingam 63 said on November 4, 2010
thanks for the useful information. it works well.
Mgr. E. Kelley said on November 5, 2010
Worked for me.. Thanx
Sudheerholla said on November 6, 2010
hey thnks dude…tht was awesome..it really worked
Allan said on November 15, 2010
Richard Cranium, you are a STAR! I’ve tried all of the other stuff but THIS is the only one that worked for me. Many many thank you’s.
pras said on November 16, 2010
top markotop… cak
kzrockz said on November 19, 2010
awsm.it wrked like a charm.tried a lot of methods but this 1 rcked.thnk u fr u7r valuable effort.
Cat said on November 29, 2010
It works great!! tks!
rUImIGUEL said on December 1, 2010
THANKSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ))))))
FLINT said on December 4, 2010
yeah man !!
ca marche aussi avec la version FR !
Zapmx said on December 14, 2010
this one works for me very well, my os winxp with sp2
Ryan said on December 14, 2010
it says not enough memory????
RG said on December 15, 2010
WGA is now required to download from that link. Any alternate download locations?
Chad said on December 31, 2010
for those who still didnt get it activated…. locate LegitLibM.dll in below path.
c:program filesWindows media playerLegitLibM.dll
once you locate it, rename it to legitlib.dll
now run wmp 11 and validate… it shows unable to validate… then just proceed to next step and install your wmp.
Chad said on December 31, 2010
http://www.filehippo.com/download_windows_media_player/
Chad said on December 31, 2010
@SeaMonkey
Thanks a lot :)
rahuldogra said on January 5, 2011
thx it working i love it
Dhruvkapoor said on January 10, 2011
I really worked.
Thanks a lot
ShanGurung said on January 10, 2011
Dats !!Amazing!! Thnx man, it’s really work :)
Asherfabia said on January 10, 2011
thanks for the very much info…
copeman said on January 23, 2011
Legend!!! worked a treat thanks alot
Brondi said on January 24, 2011
I was desperate, because although I’ve done everything as written, it still didn’t work. Then I found the advise here from Chad of 3 weeks ago, and now my WMP is up and running! Wonderful and thanks a fortune! Keep up the good work! DB
Ron026 said on January 25, 2011
Thank you. It was very helpful.
dezo said on January 25, 2011
good you are genius very easy ^^
Arg said on January 31, 2011
Brilliant- yeah, works. I tried everything else, then tried this- EXACTLY as directed, FINALLY got it. Many thanks.
nikola said on February 7, 2011
work but advise from Chad. Dont forget restart end work!
Khawaja waqas ahmed said on February 10, 2011
thankx men u r too gud=)
Tammy said on February 11, 2011
Awesome receipe buddy….thank you so much. I recently downloaded iMesh, and it requires the lastest version of WMP. Worked like a charm thank you so much.
Fakhirinyen said on February 19, 2011
thank a lot man…it work..u are my savior
Suveer Kakrool said on February 25, 2011
bro u jus awesome….. i cant thank u enough….. u rock m/
bitla said on February 26, 2011
you are JEM
Tim Scriggins said on February 28, 2011
Shot Bro, Lovin It :D
Ranjay_17 said on March 16, 2011
it this work in sp3…..
Asookie said on April 2, 2011
Thanks! Very elegant fix.
Despite running legit XP, I HATE WGA snoop-ware & this
avoided having to install WGA & then running WGA-Spoof
(Google “RemoveWGA” – for those who are WGA-afflicted!)
shiraz said on April 3, 2011
wow!!!!!!! it really works and easy method. thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!
soumya dasgupta said on April 27, 2011
many many thanxxx :)…works fine
Godfather00701 said on May 18, 2011
thanx it worked
Almkinfl said on June 6, 2011
I guess I am the only person in the world who couldn’t get this to work. When I try to download Player it puts me on a validation page then I put in the code and the page jumps to a W7 ad.
Must I uninstall my current Player11??
Al
Kishore_1123 said on June 11, 2011
This is just awesome. It worked for me with your suggested option. I had been trying the usual steps mentioned above without any success.
Thanks a lot.
b'joy said on June 21, 2011
i did it. with your help.
Matin Mahmood said on June 22, 2011
!!!!!!THX WORKS FINE FOR ME !!!!!!!
Samratbabanrakshit said on June 24, 2011
Awesome! Many Many Thanks!
Craig said on July 12, 2011
finally got it lost my origenal player from you tube wont be doing that again thanks who ever you are
Hardik said on July 13, 2011
this is bloody cool man.. thanks a lot this is helped me :D
aberico said on July 18, 2011
I also followed the procedure and deleted the LegitLibM.dll and believe me it worked so easily. Good Job
Nandha_jyo said on July 22, 2011
thanks… can you tell me the way to install ie 9 on win7 without wga test…..
Kiran said on September 12, 2011
Thanx it worked !!!!!!!! So easy and simple Please tell me how to crack windows essentials ?
kingston said on September 15, 2011
it worked real good me i love ya
Shashank said on October 15, 2011
gr8 thanxxx
its really works
T.Rex said on October 17, 2011
It tells me I have to validate Windows before you can even download Media Player :(
Henrik Lund said on November 1, 2011
Just wanted to say THX allot!!! Windows Genunie really is a pain in the #”!. I’m preparing a image which will be installed on 50 machines. All of these 50 machines has a license and is genunie, but nooo – I cant install media player. Thx, you just fixed my problem and made my day better.
Bobberino said on November 9, 2011
Seems to be working perfectly, and it was all very easy to follow.
rohit jain said on November 13, 2011
dude , you rocj . works wonderfully on windows xp sp3………awesome ……… kick msft validation tool . thanks …………. good wishes for ya !!
pasban said on November 20, 2011
mashallah ..it wonderfully works i was very afraid about the problem of installation of wmp 11……
thanks alot
happykid.Ems said on November 22, 2011
tnx men.. !!you’re the best!!
hacklover said on November 28, 2011
Wow YOU ARE AWESOME MAN —-The method worked like a charm —:)
i hve sp3—- main thing is RESTART after instaliing wmfdist11.exe n then restart again after installing wmp11.exe. Keep internet shut off if u can. Enjoy wmp11!!!!!!!!!
Ahmad Raza said on January 21, 2012
Many Thanks
Siddharth said on January 22, 2012
Thax. it was AWESOME now I PLay wmp 11