Windows Media Revocation and Renewal

Hello everyone,

After upgrading my Inspiron 1520 to Windows 7 Professional from Vista Home Premium, and try and play DRM protected WMA files, an error comes up after some time (varies from a couple minutes to a couple days) in Windows saying "Windows Media Revocation and Renewal: You must restart the machine to continue content processing". I use WMP as my primary music/video player, but I tried playing my protected DRM files with Songbird, and get the same error. I tried all the common fixes of deleting the DRM folder, using the Microsoft Upgrade Component website, checking to see if any one out of about 7 programs are running (setpoint.exe, anydvd.exe, etc.), disabled quicktime, audio troubleshooting, using the DRM_Reset.exe program from Microsoft, and more. Nothing works. The other possibility that I've read has to do with hardware changes. Microsoft states that if you change your hardware, you might not be able to play DRM files. I haven't changed my hardware, only my software (Vista to 7), but I'm wondering if Windows 7 sees my sound card differently than Vista does. I have the latest Sigmatel Hi-Def drivers for my sound card, and I checked and it looks like they're all signed.

Oh, and I tried System Restore, but that didn't work either...it seemed to start after installing Windows 7.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do? I've been trying to attack this for 2 months now.

Thanks!

 

I am bumping this post.

 

found this http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7music/thread/548036b1-a257-48f8-b084-2ec82661da32