A system that came with Win -N didn't have WMP to begin with.
He had to add it; nothing to do with doing it his way .. except he really didn't want the WMP (and probably the extra 100 meg of disk space it takes and having to reset all settings for default player, and .. etc)

Unfortunately it is required for WMA files, either that or a pretty intimidating codec install from MS (that is also pretty old).

Believe it or not; WMP is not part of the 'basic MS stuff' by their own definition apparently. Their minimal OS does not include it. Even in Win8 -N


I do not work here, but the benefits are still awesome
Make your sound your own!