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Using BBCi Player in Windows Vista

As some of you will know, the current BBCi player (beta) is not "compatible" with Windows Vista. However i managed to found a solution until BBC release a Vista compatible version:

Go to START and in the SEARCH box (bottom left) type REGEDIT.
browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\5.0\user agent

now in the right hand pane, right click and select new>string value. name it
platform and then set the data to Windows NT 5.1

now the iplayer will install/run fine (you will need to close all IE windows for that change to take effect. simply delete the "platform" key to undo the changes if you need to.
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