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    Windows Media Player won't load

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by bob1182006, Sep 22, 2007.

  1. bob1182006

    bob1182006 Notebook Evangelist

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    Everything was ok till this morning, about 5 hours ago, I was playing L2, nothing more. Shut down lappy came back and WMP wouldn't start...also AIM wouldn't show the chat box properly, and dreamscene couldn't be loaded because I changed my settings? changed them back and it works now.

    reinstalled aim but still WMP won't load unless I run it as administrator. And also I can't check the box in compatability to run as admin always...

    But wierdly enough youtube will load up WMP to show me videos...

    I searched the forums and internet couldn't find anything except reinstall but I can't even find the WMP files to uninstall!!

    Anyone else run into this?
     
    bob1182006, Sep 22, 2007
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  2. Alemaker

    Alemaker Notebook Consultant

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    did ya try a system restore??
     
    Alemaker, Sep 22, 2007
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  3. bob1182006

    bob1182006 Notebook Evangelist

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    oo I have that turned off because it takes up like 10+% of my HD ><
     
    bob1182006, Sep 22, 2007
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    Not a good idea to turn off System Restore. You can adjust the amount of space System Restore takes up by right-clicking the Command Prompt, clicking Run as Administrator, and typing in a command called "vss admin shadowstorage"

    That will show you how much space is currently allocated for it. I dont know for sure how to adjust it so I will not cite it. I have done this before though with the help of this board. Search for vss admin or something and you should find your solution.

    Good luck.
     
    vaio2k7, Sep 22, 2007
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  5. ruller

    ruller Newbie

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    hey, i got this problem too. I have a windows vista home premium. A while ago i got like this stupid software which is called "Steganos internet security". After which first windows couldn't load. When i finally made it load, windows sidebar and wm player couldnt open. Well actually i just couldn't see the gadgets on sidebar. But windows media player wouldn't open at all....help please!
     
    ruller, Oct 15, 2007
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  6. bob1182006

    bob1182006 Notebook Evangelist

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    I fixed the problem sort of by turning AUC off. Maybe that'll fix your problem too ruller?
     
    bob1182006, Oct 15, 2007
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    You have to be careful about turning off UAC. It should only be done on a clean install. If you have installed stuff with UAC on you could lose access to those files since they are cataloged in virtual space. The data is still there but you can't access it anymore. Read the UAC section of the tweaks guide at the top of the main page.
     
    P_Schneider, Oct 15, 2007
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  8. bob1182006

    bob1182006 Notebook Evangelist

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    thanks I just saw that post, so far haven't had any problems in games including Bioshock that I installed before turning off UAC.
     
    bob1182006, Oct 15, 2007
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    Just use a real media player like WinAmp or VLC instead.
     
    olyteddy, Oct 15, 2007
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  10. ruller

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    bob1182006, I ah....well didn't tell you this but....I'm just a 11 year old boy, who knows tons about comps and is called a nerd at school. Though what exactly is AUC???
     
    ruller, Oct 18, 2007
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    Try reinstalling WMP and AIM?
     
    allan_huang, Oct 18, 2007
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  12. ruller

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    oh wait guys i figured out what the problem was. I think that you should do the following to get wmp back in action. Go to start. Open the run windows, there type:regsvr32 scrrun.dll. Then do the same thing for the following other dynamic local libraries:
    regsvr32 jscript.dll
    regsvr32 msxml3.dll
     
    ruller, Oct 18, 2007
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  13. ruller

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    Go to start. Open the run windows, there type: regsvr32 scrrun.dll. Thne do the same for:
    regsvr32 jscript.dll
    regsvr32 msxml3.dll
     
    ruller, Oct 18, 2007
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