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I'm facing the same problem here. Did you ever get it to work?

Chris

Dean Hannotte (http://www.hannotte.net/ http://www.hannotte.net/)
wrote:
Somebody bought me a new Zen V Plus player from Creative, but
unfortunately I'm using Windows 2000, which is not officially supported.
I
probably won't upgrade my OS for a few more years because I'm very
concerned
about stability. In the meantime, I'd like to use the Zen in some way.
Even
if I can't load all the supporting utility software from the
accompanying CD,
there should be some way for me to be able to just copy files from my
hard
disk to the Zen's file system and play them. That in itself would be a
quantum leap over having no MP3 player at all.

However, the V Plus does not look like a little hard disk to Windows,
so
I can't use Explorer to copy the files. As far as I have been able to
learn,
the V Plus uses flash memory and Media Transfer Protocol (MTP), which is
supported in Windows Media Player 10 (which is only supported under
Windows
XP).

HOWEVER ... Microsoft recently released a Media Transfer Protocol
Porting
Kit -- see
http://msdn.microsoft.com/windowsmedia/downloads/default.aspx --
to add MTP support to WMPlayer 9, the last one that worked under Windows
2000. But it's not easy to set up. After installing it and reading the
Readme-Redist.txt file, you run MTP9x-2k.exe, which installs the
following
files:

- %windir%/System32/drivers
- wpdusb9x.sys (Windows 98SE or Windows ME)
OR wpdusb.sys (Windows 2000)
- %windir%/System32
- mtpiusb.dll
- mtpsmgr.exe
- mtpistb.dll
- mtpsp.dll
- %windir%/Inf
- wpdmtp.inf

But then you have to edit a .inf file to describe the attributes of
your
player. This is beyond my technical ability. So ...

1) Am I right to think that I can get basic MP3 player use from the V
Plus just by installing the MTP Porting Kit, or do I really need to
upgrade
to Windows XP?

2) If the Porting Kit will work, can anybody help me write a .inf
file
that will be correct for the V Plus? I'd really by happy with just
minimal
functionality.

Thanks for your help!



.

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