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Windows Support: Updating Windows Installer & Delete Files from Windows Media Player

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Windows Support with Updating Windows Installer

If you find that the programs you downloaded to protect and enhance your computer has failed during the installation process, chances are your Microsoft Windows Installer is outdated or functioning incorrectly. This can also, as Windows support points out, make your computer vulnerable to both online and offline threats affecting the performance of your computer.

So for cases like this, Windows support suggests that you get a new version of the Windows Installer if installing downloads fails repeatedly.

Updating Windows Installer with Windows support

You can start with the Windows support process to update your computer with a new version of the Windows Installer by logging onto the official Microsoft website or placing a search for a new

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“Microsoft Windows Installer” online.

As you get onto Microsoft’s home page, head for “Downloads & Trials” to display the drop down menu to select “Download Center”.

Continue with Windows support by clicking on “Windows” from the list titled “Product Families”.

Now, from the page, click on the arrow in the box next to “Show downloads for:” to put on view its drop down menu. Try and find “Microsoft Windows Installer” from it and then hit on “Go” to

proceed further with Windows support help tips.

Make sure you search for the most recent version of Microsoft Windows Installer by using the “Release Date” option. Or else Windows support suggests that you place a search for “Windows Installer 3.1 Redistributable” for it always does the trick.

Proceed from the download page by clicking on the hypertext phrase “Download files below” to get to the column where the software has been setup for download in three separate files. Then with Windows support, click on each of these files one after the other to download them onto your computer.

Finally, you can complete Windows support help steps by letting the Install Wizard automatically update the new installer software on your computer or do a computer repair the one you already have.

Windows support Helps You Delete Files from Windows Media Player

All you music buffs out there know what the Windows Media Player is. For those of you who don’t know, Media Player is the software that can play videos, MP3s and help you add music to CDs and MP3 devices.

We always like to keep our computers as personal as possible; we don’t want others to know what we listen to. So how do you remove or delete files from the Media player? The Windows support team says that all you have to do is follow their instructions.

Let’s get straight into the procedure by the Windows support team.

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Windows support team’s instructions

To start off with the procedure by the Windows support team, launch the Windows Media Player program and right-click on the top of the Windows Media player screen. The Windows supportteam points out that the Windows Media Player toolbar is different from the other toolbars; you have to click on it to view the options. Go to the “options” button, which come under the “Tools” option.
A new window pops up and in this window, click on the “Privacy” tab and click on the option named “Clear History”. This option clears the all the files from the “Recently Played” section.When this process is complete, click on the OK button.
To continue with the procedure by the Windows support team, go to the “Library” option and find the files you want to remove. The Windows support team points out that this searching procedure can be done by artist name, album, song and rating wise.
Once the file has been found, all you have to do to complete the Windows support team’s procedure, is right click on the file and hit the “Delete” button. Follow the same procedure for all the files that is to be deleted from the “Library”.