How do I update my Zen Micro's firmwa

I just get my micro today and I want to know how do I update his firmware. Can anyone help me?

Gop to the Creative download page and follow teh instructions.
http://www.creative.com/support/
Firmware
Title Date
. Creative Zen Micro Firmware .02.05 (2.0 MB) Mar 05 Download Now
This web release enables you to upgrade the firmware for your , 4, 5 or 6GB Creative Zen Micro player. You can upgrade from Creative Zen Micro firmware .0.03 or earlier, or Zen Micro PlaysForSure? firmware 2.00.2 or later. After upgrading, you cannot go back to a pre..... Hide Details
Filename: ZenMicro_PCFW_LB__02_05_PDE.exe
Creative Zen Micro Firmware .02.05
ZENM-FWPDE-2-LB
This web release enables you to upgrade the firmware for your , 4, 5 or 6GB Creative Zen Micro player.
You can upgrade from Creative Zen Micro firmware .0.03 or earlier, or Zen Micro PlaysForSure? firmware 2.00.2 or later. After upgrading, you cannot go back to a previous Creative Zen Micro firmware version.
It has been reported by some of our customers that they have experienced reduced battery life after charging their Zen Micro. Our product development team has researched these reports and determined that the users may have experienced this after they plugged their Zen Micro into the AC adapter that was already inserted into a wall socket with the AC power on.
While this is not the conventional way to plug in a player for charging, we wanted to ensure that our customers did not experience this problem, so we have developed a solution to address this, which simply involves upgrading the Zen Micro's firmware.
If you need assistance in doing this, please contact our customer support team and they will be happy to assist you.
Important: If you are upgrading from PlaysForSure firmware, be sure to back up all the audio and data files on your Zen Micro before installing this firmware update as all content will be lost when you install the new firmware. After installing the new firmware, use Creative MediaSource? to restore audio and/or data files to your player.
Enhancements
Improves the look of the volume control bar
Improves the appearance of the Lock icon
Adds a 4GB option in Removable Disk Mode (for 5 or 6GB players only)
Fixes
Prevents battery drain when the player is charged with an AC adapter already plugged into a li've power outlet
Restores proper functionality after disconnecting the power adaptor or transferring content using Zen Media Explorer
Redirects playback properly when skipping to the beginning of a WMA track
Requirements
Microsoft? Windows? XP, Windows 2000, Windows Millennium Edition or Windows 98 Second Edition
USB port (2.0 or .)
Creative Zen Micro
Note
To install the new firmware in your Zen Micro
Download ZenMicro_PCFW_LB__02_05_PDE.exe.
Connect your player to your computer.
Double-click (filename).
Choose your language.
Click the Upgrade button and follow the instructions that appear.
To check your player's firmware version, see your Zen Micro User's Guide.

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If you're updating the firmware, you just download it from Creative's download page. All the latest downloads are there, click the link Support > Downloads on this page.
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Sure, you can copy any file back as long as it doesn't have any license. MP3 files can't have this.
99+ % of MP3 files, that is. Some Sony Ericsson cell phones actually support a DRM version of MP3 (possibly proprietary, but I think it's an Open Mobile Alliance feature available to all cell-phone makers), largely to help carriers block the phone's ability to use ordinary MP3 files as ringtones, and thus force users to buy ringtones from carrier-approved sites. (Vodafone in the UK does this regularly, but Cingular, the only US national carrier that regularly sells Sony Ericsson, didn't with my phone.)
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My experiences:
On fw .02.x and earlier USB charging would be about 6 or so hours; the host PC needed the drivers installed and if so, and it found the Micro, pulsing would start and the lightning bolt icon was on. It seemed to me that no matter what the charge level of the battery was, charging would take 6 or so hours on USB, about 3 or so on the AC charger.
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On my Micro - on the top row of buttons (rew-play-ff) there are two raised bum
ps.
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GPL: Done like dinner! Returned it yesterday to the store I bought it from! They were cool as hell about it even after two months since I bought my first one original one! Gave me a full refund of $455.05 and then I decided to try out a Sony for 30 days (359.99 for the Sony/paid 333.99 for the Micro!). For 26 bucks more, I got a whole lotta more player. If I don't like it, I'll return it too and wait for Creative to fix the troubles, but so far I love it (it has a battery OFF switch too). Maybe come back and get a Zen Micro Photo!
Here I posted about it yesterday:
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...d=40032#M28862
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:robotvery-happy:
1. Please get a Windows XP computer.
Your PC needs to be using a Windows XP, Service Pack or 2
Determining your operating system
http://support.creative.com/kb/ShowA...aspx?sid=25863
To get a Service Pack 2
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/sp2/default.mspx
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version as it interferes in
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take, please click on the link below.
Windows Media Player Uninstalling
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disk.
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firmware upgrade.
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a. Select your player. Click "View All Downloads" near the bottom.
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SSR wrote:
Sure, you can copy any file back as long as it doesn't have any license. MP3 files can't have this.
99+ % of MP3 files, that is. Some Sony Ericsson cell phones actually support a DRM version of MP3 (possibly proprietary, but I think it's an Open Mobile Alliance feature available to all cell-phone makers), largely to help carriers block the phone's ability to use ordinary MP3 files as ringtones, and thus force users to buy ringtones from carrier-approved sites. (Vodafone in the UK does this regularly, but Cingular, the only US national carrier that regularly sells Sony Ericsson, didn't with my phone.)
Sony Ericsson used to provide a "DRM Packager" freely to developers to insert DRM into MP3 ringtones; phone hackers discovered it and bypassed Vodafone's locks by using it to make their own DRM'ed MP3's for download to their phones. Sony Ericsson eventually took it down, though warez sites still carry it, and presumably some real developers can still get it. (No, I won't tell how to get it; I'm not about to be banned.)
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