Assuming you have downloaded and named the new CLI

Open CP with administrator privileges (Start-Programs-Accessories, then right click on CP to access this)

Firstly type cd\ then "enter"

Then type cd users\Owner\Documents and press "enter"- assuming you have put new cli into Downloads folder (I have windows 7, this is the default folder for downloading) If not substitute the directory name you have used.

Then paste in the three lines (alter them if required beforehand in Word) To paste in CP you have to use the right click method, ctrl V will not work.

Type "yes" when prompted

Then repeat for the WPM

Hope this helps

Art thanks for your patience
new CLI downloaded check
new CLI renamed get_iplayer.pl.txt check
cmd accessed check
cd\ check
cd users\Owner\Documents 'the system cannot find the path specified' comes up I have checked file is definitely in documents\downloads (it wasn't, i have two downloads files one outside documents) and its definitely is called get_iplayer.pl.txt (it wasn't it seemed to have changed its name to .pl)
any thoughts
thanks once again

Have you double checked the directory path? Right click on the folder the CLI is in, click on properties and look in the shortcut tab. What flavour windows are you using?

Art
some progress
file is stored in C:\Users\Tim\Documents\Downloads
i have typed cd users\tim\Documents
should i have typed cd users\Owner\Documents\downloads\get_iplayer.pl.txt.
it now showa as
c:\users\tim\documents before i type in anything

When you type'cd users\Owner\Documents' into the command window you need to replace Owner with the Username that you logon to your PC - in my case this would change it to 'cd users\Ernest\Documents'.

@art: Thanks for the link. I've included it in the instructions.

Can I also add my sincere thanks to the guys who developed this fix. You're doing a great public service :-)

Hi As Advised
have got to command prompt entered cd\
entered cd users\tim\Documents
copied and pasted
cd \path\to\download\directory
rename get_iplayer.pl.txt get_iplayer.pl
copy "C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl" get_iplayer.pl.bak
copy get_iplayer.pl "C:\Program Files\get_iplayer\get_iplayer.pl"
to which i get
The system cannot find the file (path) specified
Any Ideas?

Hi Tim,
is an instruction to you to put the path to the download folder there so you need to change that to the actual location you have downloaded the file to.

This should be
And you need to do each line one at a time.

c:\users\tim\documents\downloads>rename get_iplayer.pl.txt get_iplayer.pl
still comes up the system cannot find the file specified
Sorry all this is so new to me have no experience of this before

Don't worry you'll get there. The command you just provided:


...is not valid. Reason being you've missed and stitched two commands together. Not sure if that's just a product of pasting the command here or if that's something you're actually doing.

You are also entering commands for the 32 bit version of Windows. Do you know if your's is 32 or 64 bit? In any case, you can try the commands below, if they come back with 'The system cannot find the file (path) specified' then you may need to use the alternate commands listed at the bottom of this post

The exact commands for you should be to open the command prompt (making sure to open it with administrator privileges as detailed in the wiki page) and enter:

and hit enter key. This assumes you downloaded the get_iplayer.pl.txt file to your 'downloads' folder.

Then enter and hit enter key.

32 BIT COMMANDS

Then and hit enter key.

Then and hit enter key.

64 BIT COMMANDS (If the above two codes for 32 bit don't work, try these)

Then and hit enter key.

Then and hit enter key.

when i go into command prompt it shows
C:\Users\Tim
i add
cd c:\users\tim\documents\downloads

c:\Users\Tim\Documents\Downloads

i add
rename get_iplayer.pl.txt get_iplayer.pl
The system cannot find the file specified.

c:\Users\Tim\Documents\Downloads>

In that case, there is no file named in your downloads folder. Did you download the file to your downloads folder or somewhere else? Did you name it something else?

You can take a look visually at what is in your downloads folder by opening up the standard explorer window and navigating to the downloads folder. See if you can see the file, perhaps you named it something else.

C:\Users\Tim\Documents\Downloads is the location of get_iplayer.pl.txt
if i check out this files properties

oh and i checked i'm 64 bit operating system

ok, when you are at enter the command .

You can list the output here via copy and paste or take a screenshot if you prefer (this would be better for me) and attach it using the attachment tool below the reply box here on the website.

Thanks Square Penquin

Great, it's as I thought. You need to use the following command:


Notice how .txt is repeated twice? After that, the commands for the 64 bit I gave above should complete successfully.

As i was doing this my computer said it didn't recognize commands (or some such) i bashed on regardless heres a screen print.
Is that it?
tried to download radio 6 programme still not doing it
Thanks for all this

i assume shouldn't have called the file get_iplayer.pl.txt as it added its own txt which is why you cgave me the instruction get_iplayer.pl.txt.txt