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Using BBCi Player in Windows Vista
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baby_frogmella
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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.
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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