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| Windows Vista Codecs

Windows Vista Codecs from ghacks

Windows Vista Codec Pack is a all in one codec pack for Windows Vista users who suffer from their system’s inability to play a variety of popular audio and video formats.

It remains a mystery to many why Microsoft has decided to ship Windows Vista without the required Windows Vista Codec to play those multimedia files.

I’m normally not a friend of codec packs because they tend to install many Codecs that are not needed on most systems and could pose compatibility problems with codecs already installed on the system.

Windows Vista on the other hand misses some essential Codecs that can be quite easily added with the Vista Codec Package which can be customized during installation.

That is right, unlike other codec packages you can select to install all or only some of the Codecs offered.

Most possible conflicts have already been dealt with and the settings have already been altered for best results.

The Windows Vista codec package does not ship with a media player which means that no file associations are being made.

Just fire up your favorite media player, I recommend VLC or Mplayer, who automatically will use the codecs that are installed on your system.

Get Codec here...