Vista - Windows media player won't start

About a month ago my windows media player on vista wouldn't start when I
click on it anywhere all I got was the loading circle for a second and
nothing. It had been working for about 3 weeks. I think it started playing up
when I had a problem with my updates. About that time a lot of my programs
wouldn't start and I thought it was because of the updates. But since I have
fixed the problem most of my programs started again but windows media player
didn't. How do I make it go again?

What changed before it broke?

If you open cmd.exe with Administrator privileges and run "regsvr32.exe
wmp.dll", does WMP work then?

Some party/app out there is breaking/deregistering WMP. I don't think it's
SatelliteTVforPC here... there appears to be some other app doing something
very screwy here. I'm getting close to offering a bounty on that madness.
=P

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"Joel" <Joel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> About a month ago my windows media player on vista wouldn't start when I
> click on it anywhere all I got was the loading circle for a second and
> nothing. It had been working for about 3 weeks. I think it started playing
> up
> when I had a problem with my updates. About that time a lot of my programs
> wouldn't start and I thought it was because of the updates. But since I
> have
> fixed the problem most of my programs started again but windows media
> player
> didn't. How do I make it go again?