

What’s the advantage of using 64-bit (圆4) Windows Media Player? Using 64-bit software allows application to run natively and take architecture advantage in 圆4 operating system, and potentially run faster by working with larger data sets at any time. The change is to improve system security so that malicious code cannot modify the WMP play and enqueue commandsĪs a result, Windows 7 users who want to use 64-bit WMP has to performed extra steps to unlock the registry key. However, the simple trick to switch to 64-bit player does not work anymore as Windows 7 locks the registry key that required to be changed to alter the file associations related to WMP. There is workaround to switch or change and set 64-bit Windows Media Player 11 as default player in Vista.

In fact, WMP 圆4 has been included since 64-bit Windows Vista, and the WMP 11 圆4 has also not been made as default player. However, to provide maximum compatibility with existing applications and codecs, 32-bit version of Windows Media Player has been made the default media player. 64-bit flavor of Windows 7 includes both 32bit (x86) and 64bit (圆4) versions of Windows Media Player 12, or WMP 12.
