Vista - Windows Media Player crashes on opening

Hopefully someone can help me, but it seems like there are a lot of WMP not working threads.

I'm at my wits ends, I suddenly can't open Media Player. When I do I get a box saying it stopped working and needs to be shutdown. If I click directly on the WMP icon, or click an audio, video, etc file, it automatically closes.

When I got to the Problem report, it gives me this information:

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.6002.18065
Application Timestamp: 4a5dce03
Fault Module Name: CEUTIL.dll_unloaded
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 4791a65f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 65d550e0
OS Version: 6.0.6002.2.2.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0e02
Additional Information 2: b21b56b606e7544720668ce364087082
Additional Information 3: 23fb
Additional Information 4: 7cbc13baf8be607fd64250678435d62c

anyone have any info on this?

both of my friends have had the same problem but mine seems to work fine?

they both bought their pcs from Tesco.

i thought it may be to do with preinstaled software but i really don't know.

would be interested to find out what this comes up with

Welcome to the forum Paulyester,

Try running the Systems File Checker.