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| Thread ID: 118113 | 2011-05-20 01:35:00 | Lost Win Media Player | Swampy (2426) | Press F1 |
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| 1203469 | 2011-05-20 03:44:00 | Done that. The regsvr32 wmp.dll did not appeare to do much so I have renamed the Windows Media folder to Old Windows Media . Whats next ? | Swampy (2426) | ||
| 1203470 | 2011-05-20 04:20:00 | Have you rebooted? Still no luck opening WMP after doing those two things then? Open an elevated command prompt (blogs.msdn.com)and run sfc /scannow Note the space between the c and the / |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1203471 | 2011-05-20 04:44:00 | what about using VLC or Media Player Classic Home Cinema instead? | GameJunkie (72) | ||
| 1203472 | 2011-05-20 04:46:00 | small problem. In the elevated command prompt- what is the difference between elvated and standard cmd prompt - I am getting the message" You must be an administator to run the sfc command " I am the administrator so I am doing something wrong. I still have the Windows Media folder renamed as " Old Media Player, is that correct ? | Swampy (2426) | ||
| 1203473 | 2011-05-20 04:51:00 | This is a painful one! Not to worry, we'll get in in the end, hopefully... :p That's fine - all that folder contains is settings etc for WMP - renaming the folder simply forces WMP to create a new one. Type cmd in the start menu search box, and when cmd.exe appears up the top, right click it and click run as administrator, then retry the sfc /scannow |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1203474 | 2011-05-20 04:58:00 | You right-click Command Prompt in the start menu, and Run As Administrator. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1203475 | 2011-05-20 05:19:00 | I right clicked on Media Player and got the menu that allows" run as administrator" and it is now working. However, Media Player does not start up when I click on a wave or MP3 file so it appears there is a setting that I need to change that will allow it to run not just as administrator Where would this be ? | Swampy (2426) | ||
| 1203476 | 2011-05-20 05:33:00 | Try going to your default programs and setting WMP as the default. I'm not 100% sure where this is in vista off the top of my head, typing default in the start menu search box will probably bring something useful up. If that doesn't work we may need to force WMP to run as admin every time, and turn off UAC so you don't keep getting those annoying prompts. Do you have more than one user account on this PC? Try WMP in another of the accounts and see if it works. If you only have the one account, create a new one with admin privileges and try WMP to see. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1203477 | 2011-05-20 05:39:00 | You need to change your file associations, go to Control Panel>Default Programs>Associate A File Type Or Protocol With A Program, to do this (or change the file associations back to WMP, from any other music/media player you may have installed recently (Nero, VLC, etc) which probably changed them by default). | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 1203478 | 2011-05-20 21:56:00 | Sorry I did not keep up with this yesterday, had to go out to dinner. Well despite everything you have suggested, the only way I can get WMP to work is to run it as administrator, which is a pain as when I get a WMA or WMV file as part of an email I have to save it then run it and then delete it. It was much easier when WMP just started when I clicked on the wmp etc file. Hopefully we can get this sorted. | Swampy (2426) | ||
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