I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two days
the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings to
copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw that
there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
What should I do?
I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there are
not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and other
small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but in
that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it possible to
do a similar thing on this pc?)
Tanks
Eleonora

I can't play a cd in the media player...i keep getting an error message!
What has microsoft done?

"Eleonora" wrote:

> I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two days
> the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings to
> copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
> control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw that
> there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
> What should I do?
> I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there are
> not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and other
> small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
> 2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but in
> that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it possible to
> do a similar thing on this pc?)
> Tanks
> Eleonora

What error message?
When seeking help you must try to be as specific as possible.
Also try Control Panel>Problem Reports and Solutions


"blau45" <blau45@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:21FA7FCC-02FD-4B53-91BB-8595BB31F10A@microsoft.com...
>I can't play a cd in the media player...i keep getting an error message!
> What has microsoft done?
>
> "Eleonora" wrote:
>
>> I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two days
>> the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings to
>> copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
>> control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw that
>> there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
>> What should I do?
>> I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there are
>> not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and other
>> small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
>> 2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but in
>> that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it possible to
>> do a similar thing on this pc?)
>> Tanks
>> Eleonora

What's the value for
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, CLSID\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}
\InprocServer32
on this system?

What changed on the system previous to it stopping working?

What third party multimedia (TV, DVD, AVI, WMV, MPEG, codec packs, etc)
applications were installed or uninstalled to this system?

This would be seemingly indicative of wmp.dll having its registry corrupted
by some unknown agent. (I would love to know what did that on your system.)
As such, this should be fixable by running cmd.exe as Administrator and then
running:
regsvr32 wmp.dll
in that cmd.exe prompt.
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#sattv
covers this in a little more detail as well as having an additional registry
fix you would want to do (not completely necessary) if this is indeed the
problem you've run into.

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"Eleonora" <Eleonora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C56EE16B-E02F-46F5-8920-9D7DDFF64672@microsoft.com...
>I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two
>days
> the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings to
> copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
> control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw
> that
> there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
> What should I do?
> I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there
> are
> not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and
> other
> small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
> 2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but in
> that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it possible
> to
> do a similar thing on this pc?)
> Tanks
> Eleonora

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> What's the value for
> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, CLSID\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}
> \InprocServer32
> on this system?
>
> What changed on the system previous to it stopping working?

I didn't do changes before the problems
>
> What third party multimedia (TV, DVD, AVI, WMV, MPEG, codec packs, etc)
> applications were installed or uninstalled to this system?

There are installed: Nero, WinDvd (both last editions compatibles to vista),
as codec i have installed the pack DivX from the site divx.com; but all these
applications were installed soon after the installation of the operating
system and they work good
>
> This would be seemingly indicative of wmp.dll having its registry corrupted
> by some unknown agent. (I would love to know what did that on your system.)
> As such, this should be fixable by running cmd.exe as Administrator and then
> running:
> regsvr32 wmp.dll
> in that cmd.exe prompt.
> http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#sattv
> covers this in a little more detail as well as having an additional registry
> fix you would want to do (not completely necessary) if this is indeed the
> problem you've run into.
>

This solution fixed the problem of the option menu, but the media player bar
doesn't work yet.
For now tanks
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "Eleonora" <Eleonora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:C56EE16B-E02F-46F5-8920-9D7DDFF64672@microsoft.com...
> >I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two
> >days
> > the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings to
> > copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
> > control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw
> > that
> > there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
> > What should I do?
> > I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there
> > are
> > not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and
> > other
> > small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
> > 2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but in
> > that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it possible
> > to
> > do a similar thing on this pc?)
> > Tanks
> > Eleonora
>
>
>

If you reboot, does the toolbar work?

I know that's a little strange to ask - in theory, you've already rebooted
this machine? - but if you haven't, that may be the source of this - the
deskband previously would have been trying to access the version 10 wmp.dll
that was installed to your system, and so that should be loaded into the
shell process and would fail the toolbar.

That's just speculation, mind you, since I don't have system access.
Failing that--

The fact that that fixed you up is troubling. You did not install
SatelliteTVforPC or that sort of application, right? I am assuming based
upon the information provided here so far that an invalid wmp.dll was hacked
onto the system - that combined with a reboot fixing this would make
cohesive sense. However, I'm only aware that STV is doing this - if anybody
*else* is doing this awfulness, I would be extremely interested in knowing
that source.

--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"Eleonora" <Eleonora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2C622B6-2C76-4C71-A6F7-3AE30B4F4FA0@microsoft.com...
>
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>>
>> What's the value for
>> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, CLSID\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}
>> \InprocServer32
>> on this system?
>>
>> What changed on the system previous to it stopping working?
>
> I didn't do changes before the problems
>>
>> What third party multimedia (TV, DVD, AVI, WMV, MPEG, codec packs, etc)
>> applications were installed or uninstalled to this system?
>
> There are installed: Nero, WinDvd (both last editions compatibles to
> vista),
> as codec i have installed the pack DivX from the site divx.com; but all
> these
> applications were installed soon after the installation of the operating
> system and they work good
>>
>> This would be seemingly indicative of wmp.dll having its registry
>> corrupted
>> by some unknown agent. (I would love to know what did that on your
>> system.)
>> As such, this should be fixable by running cmd.exe as Administrator and
>> then
>> running:
>> regsvr32 wmp.dll
>> in that cmd.exe prompt.
>> http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#sattv
>> covers this in a little more detail as well as having an additional
>> registry
>> fix you would want to do (not completely necessary) if this is indeed the
>> problem you've run into.
>>
>
> This solution fixed the problem of the option menu, but the media player
> bar
> doesn't work yet.
> For now tanks
>> --
>> Speaking for myself only.
>> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>> --
>>
>> "Eleonora" <Eleonora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:C56EE16B-E02F-46F5-8920-9D7DDFF64672@microsoft.com...
>> >I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two
>> >days
>> > the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings
>> > to
>> > copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
>> > control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw
>> > that
>> > there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
>> > What should I do?
>> > I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there
>> > are
>> > not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and
>> > other
>> > small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
>> > 2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but
>> > in
>> > that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it
>> > possible
>> > to
>> > do a similar thing on this pc?)
>> > Tanks
>> > Eleonora
>>
>>
>>

I have rebooted several times, but the bar doesn't work. Now there aren't
installed any kinds of tv on pc programs, but once i tried to install the
software "SatelliteTVforPC" but it didn't satisfy me and i decided to remove
it, actually i don't know if the problem appears from the removal of that
software, but in another pc (with Xp home and MP11) where i didn't install
that software the problem appears however (in that case i can reinstall MP
and now it works well).
For now tanks

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> If you reboot, does the toolbar work?
>
> I know that's a little strange to ask - in theory, you've already rebooted
> this machine? - but if you haven't, that may be the source of this - the
> deskband previously would have been trying to access the version 10 wmp.dll
> that was installed to your system, and so that should be loaded into the
> shell process and would fail the toolbar.
>
> That's just speculation, mind you, since I don't have system access.
> Failing that--
>
> The fact that that fixed you up is troubling. You did not install
> SatelliteTVforPC or that sort of application, right? I am assuming based
> upon the information provided here so far that an invalid wmp.dll was hacked
> onto the system - that combined with a reboot fixing this would make
> cohesive sense. However, I'm only aware that STV is doing this - if anybody
> *else* is doing this awfulness, I would be extremely interested in knowing
> that source.
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "Eleonora" <Eleonora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E2C622B6-2C76-4C71-A6F7-3AE30B4F4FA0@microsoft.com...
> >
> >
> > "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> What's the value for
> >> HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, CLSID\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}
> >> \InprocServer32
> >> on this system?
> >>
> >> What changed on the system previous to it stopping working?
> >
> > I didn't do changes before the problems
> >>
> >> What third party multimedia (TV, DVD, AVI, WMV, MPEG, codec packs, etc)
> >> applications were installed or uninstalled to this system?
> >
> > There are installed: Nero, WinDvd (both last editions compatibles to
> > vista),
> > as codec i have installed the pack DivX from the site divx.com; but all
> > these
> > applications were installed soon after the installation of the operating
> > system and they work good
> >>
> >> This would be seemingly indicative of wmp.dll having its registry
> >> corrupted
> >> by some unknown agent. (I would love to know what did that on your
> >> system.)
> >> As such, this should be fixable by running cmd.exe as Administrator and
> >> then
> >> running:
> >> regsvr32 wmp.dll
> >> in that cmd.exe prompt.
> >> http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#sattv
> >> covers this in a little more detail as well as having an additional
> >> registry
> >> fix you would want to do (not completely necessary) if this is indeed the
> >> problem you've run into.
> >>
> >
> > This solution fixed the problem of the option menu, but the media player
> > bar
> > doesn't work yet.
> > For now tanks
> >> --
> >> Speaking for myself only.
> >> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> >> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
> >> rights.
> >> --
> >>
> >> "Eleonora" <Eleonora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:C56EE16B-E02F-46F5-8920-9D7DDFF64672@microsoft.com...
> >> >I have a couple of problems with WMP on Win vista home premium: from two
> >> >days
> >> > the option menu, of wmp is missing, or better i have only the settings
> >> > to
> >> > copy the cds and the mp bar (near the system tray, with the buttons to
> >> > control the player) is inactive, I did right click on the bar and i saw
> >> > that
> >> > there is the flag on mp bar, but it doesn't work.
> >> > What should I do?
> >> > I want to add other two things: 1. this pc is secondary to me and there
> >> > are
> >> > not many programs installed, i use it only for control the e-mails and
> >> > other
> >> > small things and i didn't install anything until the problem appears.
> >> > 2. I had the same problem on another pc with win xp home and mpl11 but
> >> > in
> >> > that case i can unistall and reinstall mp and now it works (is it
> >> > possible
> >> > to
> >> > do a similar thing on this pc?)
> >> > Tanks
> >> > Eleonora
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
>
>