Latest version of Windows media player 12 (WMP 12) comes with default media player skin in Windows 7 (check out this post how to install WMP 12 into your Windows Vista). Windows media player 12 has option to changed user interface or skin to look of Windows Media Player something new. It very simply to install WMP12 skin with a couple of click only.

You can directly download Windows Media Player 12 skins from official microsoft directory and choose around 49 amazing skins design for your Windows Media Player 12. Skin packages includes some really amazing WMP skins such as, Age of Mythology, Batman Begins, Cerulean, Harry Potter, Halo 2, Lara Croft Tom Raider, Lord of the Ring and much more.  Some skins are optimized for Windows Vista and Windows XP and may not have the same appearance when used in Windows 7.

Download Windows Media Player 12 Skins

Windows Media Player 12 specially design for Windows 7 to plays much more music and video, such as Flip Video and unprotected songs from your iTunes library. Windows Media Player (WMP) 12 has built-in support for many popular audio and video formats-including AAC, WMV, AVCHD, 3GP, MPEG-4, WMA, DivX, AVI, MOV, and Xvid files. Mikasi2009 from deviantART user founds the way in which to get WMP 12 on windows vista version is by extracted from Windows 7 and copying a few of WMP 12 system files inside your windows vista to run Windows Media Player 12 on your system.

How you can install Windows Media Player 12 on Windows Vista?

1. Backup wmploc.dll from C:WindowsSystem32
2. Backup Windows Media Player folder from C:Program Files
3. Download Windows Media Player 12 Vista Version and extract it.
4. Copy wmploc.dll in C:WindowsSystem32
5. Copy Windows Media Player folder to C:Program Files

**Make sure you create a restore and backup your files into your computer before proceeding**

MCE Tunes helps users to simply access iTunes library through Microsoft windows Media Center or Microsoft windows Media Player. MCE Tunes is a valuable plug-in created exclusively for Microsoft Windows Media Center which will allows it to play iTunes music (m4a and m4p) files and merges(copies) any items of iTunes library such as file metadata, playlists, album artwork, track rating and enables itunes music playback.

Requirements before install MCE Tunes to your desktop/laptop

• iTunes Version 6.x, 7.x, or later
• Microsoft Media Center 2005 (with Update Rollup 2 installed from Windows Update) or Vista (32bit or 64bit)
• All iTunes Music Store (m4p) files must be authorized to play on your PC
• iTunes Music (m4a files) or iTunes Music Store Music (m4p files)

MCE Tunes license giveaway is of  the standard version of MCE Tunes (worth $14.99), which provides infinite number of track sync. Grab this license key for free and follow this method below:

1. Fill form at Promo page (German) then click on the “jetzt absenden!” button.
2. Check your email and click confirmation link to receive your free license key.
3. Download MCE Tunes software here and enter a license key to activate the full version.

VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg,etc as well as dvds, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can aswell be acclimated as a server to beck in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. If you use the VLC media player to watch your videos, you apparently watch them in fullscreen mode. Instead of consistently accepting to change the affectation approach everytime you barrage a new video to watch, change the default to fullscreen and start watching your movie.

1. Open your VLC Media Player.
2. Click menu, click Tools and select Preferences option.
3. When you click Preferences menu, click the Video button to show up the General Video Settings option.
4. select the Fullscreen checkbox.
5. Click the Save button and enjoy using it.

To get started youll need to get your hands on some editing software that can be used to trim your audio file to a suitable length and then save it as an MP3 file. One of the best tools for this type of job is a program called Audacity. Its a free, open-source audio editor that can be downloaded from. To allow Audacity to save your file in the MP3 format youll also need the Lame MP3 codec. Next you need some audio that you can turn into a ringtone. You can use either an MP3 file that you already have on your PC or rip a track from an audio CD. If you want to rip a track you can use Windows Media Player 11 for this purpose. Open Windows Media Player and click Tools, Options and then Rip Music. Choose WAV (Lossless) in the dropdown Format box under Rip Settings. Unfortunately earlier versions of WMP can’t be used to rip your file from CD because they don’t support ripping to WAV format. However, you can always use iTunes instead. Just make sure you set the ripping option to WAV in the Advanced section of the Preferences menu. Now you’ve got your audio file ready it’s time to load up Audacity. Once it has started, click on the File Menu and select Open. Choose your WAV or MP3 file and click OK. You’ll now see the waveform for the audio file laid out in front of you running from left to right across the screen. Click on the Play button or hit the space bar to start listening to the track. You can quickly move to anywhere in the track by clicking on a location in the waveform and then double-tapping your space bar. To zoom in and out of the file select the Magnifying Glass icon and then click the left mouse button to zoom in and the right mouse button to zoom back out again. To return to editing mode select the icon that looks like a capital ‘I’.

Flash memory chips have appeared in more than 20 memory card formats. Only a few remain – USB stick, Compact Flash, Secure Digital and Sony’s Memory Stick are the survivors, along with the proprietary formats of major game console vendors, and mobile phone SIM cards.

Smart Media
Now almost defunct, Smart Media was the first card memory released with NAND Flash. It often had only a single flash chip mounted in a very thin, flat card and no built-in controller. This led to address compatibility problems as capacities increased and Smart Media ceased production with 128MB cards. With its limited connections it’s also slower than the competing Compact Flash card. There are many digital cameras still in use that use Smart Media memory.

USB memory sticks
USB Flash memory, also sometimes referred to as thumbdrive, Jumpdrive (a Lexar marketing name) or a USB key, is by now familiar to most people and has largely usurped the floppy disk. It’s ideal for temporary backups and file transfer, but USB keys stick out when plugged in so don’t suit semi-permanent installation, unlike most of the other Flash formats. The connector is simple, but transfer rates are limited by the USB port, so a USB2 memory key will run slowly in a USB1 port. Unlike Smart Media, they include a controller chip to perform maintenance duties and filing system conversion. One of the larger forms of Flash, USB sticks are sometimes fitted with write-protect switches and almost always have an activity light. They’re typically available in capacities from 256MB to 32GB and with transfer rates up to 22Mbytes/sec. Besides capacity and speed, the price of USB Flash is determined by features such as metal cases, extras such as encryption or displays showing usage.

Compact Flash (CF)
Compact Flash, based on the PC Card and introduced by Sandisk in 1994, is one of the oldest Flash card hardware configurations and, although the casing is relatively bulky, the CF card has proven to have great staying power. Along with Smart Media, Compact Flash was a success in digital cameras, where it is still commonly used. CF is made in two types; Type I is 3.3mm thick and Type II 5mm thick. Type II is used for micro hard drives and is now quite rare. CF also comes in four speeds; the original CF, CF High Speed (also known as CF+ or CF 2.0 or II) with a typical 10Mbytes/sec read and 9Mbytes/sec write, CF 3.0 (or III) with a typical 20Mbytes/sec read and write and CF 4.0 (or IV) with a typical 40Mbytes/sec read and write. Although the package size and connector for Compact Flash add to the manufacturing cost, the connector means CF has a wide, parallel, data bus and this is partly why the popular format has remained. It allows some CF cards to support Ultra Direct Memory Access (UDMA) for a 300X (45Mbytes/sec) transfer rate, providing the device they are plugged into supports UltraDMA, which some high-end digital cameras now do. In theory, revision 4.0 of the standard supports up to 133Mbytes/sec, and seek times for DMA-capable CF cards can beat those of a hard drive. Capacities range from 32MB up to 64GB and the cards themselves include a controller chip to perform wear mapping and filing system conversion.

Secure Digital (SD)
Secure Digital or SD cards and the associated formats miniSD, microSD, SDHC (SD High Capacity) miniSDHC and microSDHC, are perhaps today’s rising stars of Flash. SD memory is physically small and light, so it’s eminently suitable for use in handheld digital devices such as pocket cameras. The name Secure Digital is used because the original formats – SD and SDHC – are fitted with a tiny mechanical writeprotect slide switch. High Capacity, as in SDHC, refers to cards with capacities over the 2GB partition size limit imposed by Fat; these ‘HC’ devices use the Fat32 format instead. The mini and micro cards don’t have a switch, but can be inserted into an adapter that does, and allows them to fit SD slots. Transfer rates for SD are 10Mbytes/sec for the low-capacity, minimum-specification cards, up to 20Mbytes/sec for the highest specification cards.

Sony Memory Stick
Memory Stick is a proprietary Sony product, designed to lock users of their devices into using only this format. There are five flavours of Memory Stick; the original, the Memory Stick Micro, the MS Duo, the MS Pro Duo, and the MS Pro-HG Duo, with a maximum capacity of 32GB. According to Sony the newer MSmicro is designed for use in mobile phones and the company no longer supports the original Memory Stick. The MS Micro is available in 512MB, 1, 2 and 4GB capacities and the MS Duo is available only in 128MB. The MS Pro-Duo is available in 512MB, 1, 2, 4 and 8GB capacities. All three have a maximum transfer rate of 20Mbytes/sec. The MS Pro-HG Duo is available in 1, 2 and 4GB capacities with a maximum transfer rate of 30Mbytes/sec. Memory Stick is one of the few removable Flash memory formats that supports DRM (Digital Rights Management), in the form of Sony’s Magicgate.