Component could not be upgraded – error with Media Player 11 and Vista

When trying to view some digital rights managed content I was instructed to upgrade Media Player, but the upgrade halted and I got the “Component could not be upgraded” message. No matter what I tried I could not get around this.

After some hours of searching on Google however, I came across this solution.

1. Click the Start button in the lower left corner.

2. Right click Internet Explorer and select “Run as Administrator”

3. Accept the warning dialog

4. Now as IE is in administrator mode,  go to http://drmlicense.one.microsoft.com/Indivsite/en/indivit.asp and run the upgrade.

This worked for me.

Good luck.

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  1. WOW. That totally worked for me! Thank you sooo much.

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