Yup, you read that title correctly. I want to know why I'm still able to perfectly fine play back ANY media file on my system when I've spent the last couple of hours trying to uninstall anything even remotely codec related. There should be no codecs left on my system yet for some reason I can still play AVI, MKV, OGM, DIVEX, FLV etc, etc. Anything goes.

I'm on Vista x86 ultimate, using mplayer classic to play back files.

Media Player Classic (Home Cinema) has codecs built-in.

GL

Computer management>Device manager>Sound, video, and game controllers>audio codecs. just uninstall the ones you don't need or want. I never install any codec packs, except for the wma9_redist.exe and, divx5, and a few specialized codecs I use.

Or use http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Video-T...weak-Tool.shtml this will enable you to repair and remove codecs.

Well, that would explain one part of the problem, and it has given me some clues as to how I can fix the real problem which is the whole reason I'm trying to uninstall codecs in the first place. I'll report back when I'm actually able to explain anything.