Creative media centre and windows 7

Ive just had an upgrade to windows 7 and have reinstalled my creative zen. The installation was no problem but now when i click on the desktop icon then click browse media it opens windows media player instead of the creative media centre. The whole interface has changed and i cant find how to add media at all now, with the old creative centre it was simple you just clicked add media. Not being well up on this stuff i was wondering why i cant accsess the media centre i had with xp, any advice would be most welcome. Thanks very much.

'Hi... I too have a nice old X-Fi and a new PC with Win7Pro. I haven't tried to install the old software on it yet but I have my doubts. I tried to click on the link you posted for the other guy but it took me to a products page.
I already tried accessing Contact Us but it wanted the date I bought my player, etc., and I've had it for years and don't feel like spending time looking for the receipt, etc. I just want to add some new CDs to my music library and then my X-Fi. Thanks.

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I hope this question has not been repeated.
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