Get iplayer working in Vista

Columbo · 31 Aug 2007 at 15:06

Just done this on my laptop and it works fine. Found it on another forum.

Apologies if its been posted already, I could'nt find it anywhere in here.

I'm running Vista Home 32bit btw.

Using regedit. start>search>regedit

browse to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\internet settings\5.0\user agent

now in the right hand pane, right click and select new>string value. name it

platform

and then set the data to

Windows NT 5.1

now the iplayer will install/run fine (you will need to close all IE windows for that change to take effect. simply delete the "platform" key to undo the changes if you need to.

marc2003 · 31 Aug 2007 at 17:24

^hehe, that's my post off adslguide.

Columbo · 2 Sep 2007 at 10:32

Indeed it is matey

Well done for that as well.

Dave85 · 2 Sep 2007 at 11:11

cheers bud that worked perfect, Makes you wonder why they havent done it allready

ic1male · 2 Sep 2007 at 17:43

Eh? Is that all you have to do? Why are they saying something about the DRM is not Vista compatible?

riddlermarc · 2 Sep 2007 at 18:45

I tried the above but I'm getting a warning of "A DRM reset is required" and I can't get any further :/

Vista Ultimate 32bit.. any ideas?

marc2003 · 2 Sep 2007 at 19:09

ManCuBuS said:
Well done for that as well.

i originally got it from another thread here so can't take all the credit....

@riddlermarc, sorry i have no idea. tried restarting the pc? (typical support fob off.

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