Creative Player Connection problems? Get rid of windows Media Player

I noticed that a lot of people here are having difficulty gettings their computers to recognize the player.
A lot of people describe that when they plug in their players the player will show up as properly installed in the device manager and windows will recognize it, but it won't show up in Creative media source or any other mp3 player management software.
Also the install programs for firmware won't detect your creative player as well.
The trick is to get rid of any and all traces of windows media player .
Delete the windows media player. Delete the windows media player format in Add/Remove programs in your control panel. Make sure the checkbox the says "show updates" is checked as well in your Add/remove programs window, otherwise windows media player might not show up in your list of programs to remove.
Then once you have windows media player totally removed, reinstall windows media player 0.
Then reinstall the latest versions of your Creative software, drivers, firmware, and plug-ins.
It worked for me and it worked for a lot of other of people.
I had a Zen Xtra that I could not add music to, or remove music from, for a couple weeks until I figured it out. I couldn't even install the firmware either until I got rid of Windows Media Player .
Windows Media Player = Useless Creative Mp3 player.

I do what I can....
for further info read this thread
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...d=52094#M52094

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