WMP10 on Windows Server 2003

Microsoft released the WMP10 yesterday, this version is for Windows XP only so it means that you can not install it on Windows Server 2003, although the rest version of WMP will be came out soon, we still want to test it first, is there anyway to do it? the answer is yes, you just follow those steps below and enjoy the WMP10 on your Windows Server 2003.

1. Download the WMP10 at Microsoft website (filename would be "mp10setup.exe").
2. Click "Start" and select "Run..." from start menu, type "sfc /purgecache" in the "Run" window and click "Ok" (clear your system backup files for prevent Windows auto-recovery replace your old WMP9 files back).
3. Extrat the file you downloaded at step 1 to a folder by WinRar.
4. Download this compress package. Extract it and copy all the files in this package to the folder created by step 3, replace the existing files.
5. Go to the folder you just created on step 3, Select all the INF files except "wmp10.inf", Click right mouse button on the selected files and click "Install", if any windows popup, just select "Cancel", if ask for restart, just click "No".
6. Click right mouse button on the file "wmp10.inf" and select "Install".
7. Import the "WinS2k3.reg" into your registry.
8. Run "setup_wm.exe".
9. Delete those 29 files at your system disk root folder (if your Windows Server 2003 was installed on Disk C, those files will be at C:\):
   01_Music_auto_rated_at_5_stars.wpl
   02_Music_added_in_the_last_month.wpl
   03_Music_rated_at_4_or_5_stars.wpl
   04_Music_played_in_the_last_month.wpl
   05_Pictures_taken_in_the_last_month.wpl
   06_Pictures_rated_4_or_5_stars.wpl
   07_TV_recorded_in_the_last_week.wpl
   08_Video_rated_at_4_or_5_stars.wpl
   09_Music_played_the_most.wpl
   10_All_Music.wpl
   11_All_Pictures.wpl
   12_All_Video.wpl
   Favorites -- 4 and 5 star rated.wpl
   Favorites -- Have not heard recently.wpl
   Favorites -- Listen to late at night.wpl
   Favorites -- Listen to on Weekdays.wpl
   Favorites -- Listen to on Weekends.wpl
   Favorites -- One Audio CD worth.wpl
   Favorites -- One Data CD-R worth.wpl
   Fresh tracks -- yet to be played.wpl
   Fresh tracks -- yet to be rated.wpl
   Fresh tracks.wpl
   High bitrate media in my library.wpl
   Low bitrate media in my library.wpl
   Music tracks I dislike.wpl
   Music tracks I have not rated.wpl
   Music tracks with content protection.wpl
   Revert.wmz
   Compact.wmz
10. Restart your computer (recommended but not necessary).

*IMPORTANT*, It's works properly to me, but I can not promise that it will perform perfect to you too! And those operations have some dangerous threat to your system, which may cause of serious unstable things, if you are not sure of that, please don't do it alone!