Vista - Windows Media Player Quit

Windows Media Player suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. I see
that other people have had exactly the same problem but I have not seen any
solutions published. I have Windows Home Vista premium.The message I get is
that the file wmploc.dll has a version 11.0.6000.6336 where 11.0.6000.6324
was expected. what does this mean and what is the solution. If it is a
problem with Vista then surely Microsoft should fix it. Any advice PLEASE.

why windows media player won't accept dll's that are newer than the versions that were installed is anybodies guess. apparently there is a scan tool that will check dll's and fix them (?)

for example: sfc /scanfile=c:\windows\system32\wmploc.dll

Glenn:

There is a cumulative update for Windows Media Player 11 in Vista. You
might try that, even though it will get you yet another version of
wmploc.dll. I would certainly back up the original version(s) of that DLL
before doing this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941651/en-us
Hope it's worth trying...


"Glenn" wrote:

If you reboot and aren't fixed up, open up "cmd.exe" using Run As
Administrator (you must do this or this won't work) and then run:
unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMPVersion
in that prompt. After that, this will work.

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