Weird..

My drive letters got swapped round when i went to install xp a few months ago and i some how managed to install xp on top of vista without stopping vista from working :S:S:S:S:S i deleted the xp windows folder and xp seems to operate like normal HOWEVER my media player is broken becuase it has vistas files and xp's too x.x xp's overwrote some of vistas as well


what do i do other than reinstall vista x.x

 

The only thing I can really think of is to get a stock Vista DVD or another computer with the files and just copy over the files that you think the XP install overwrote. If you are unsure as to which ones it overwrote you MIGHT be able to look at the "Date Modified" tab and that might give you some more information, but in this situation it's going to be a little tight.

 

Do a system repair with your _Vista CD/DVD - won't erase any of your data or other files.

If that doesn't work, and the media player is the only issue, try uninstalling the media player and then reinstalling it.

 

You can't uninstall media player on vista and you can't overwrite any of the files in the media players folders so i can't do either. x.x

i already tried a repair x.x

 

Not even if you go through the section that allows you to add and remove .Windows components?

 

oh what section is that?

 

Beats me, I run strictly XP - I only know _Vista second-hand through what I've figured out myself online and from Microsoft whitepapers (and diagnosing - correctly - the problems of people who do run _Vista). In XP it's an option for the add/remove programs control panel applet - I cannot imagine that _Vista does not have something very similar - you're gonna have to conribute a little bit of work and thinking to solving your problem as well.

EDIT: If you have automatic updates enabled (which your post implies you do), then you probably do have SP1 - simplest way to check is to right-click on the "My Computer" icon to get the properties window to pop up, and it should show you what service pack you're running.

If you are running SP1, then you may not be able to do a system repair from your original disks because, since those were SP0, they generally won't overwrite a higher version of the OS - and SP1 is, or so I'm told, higher than SP0. You may have to download the full SP1 package, burn it to a CD/DVD, and try to use that to do a system repair.

 

i have sp1, that might explain it.