Re: Seriously Upsetting Me

anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com
Date: 06/26/04


Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 18:42:16 -0700

Thanks to everyone who responded. I was not really
upset. I saw that my posts were not responded to and
were moving to page 10 without any replies. I took the
advice of accessing my registry (I had to add the
WindowsMediaPlayer key). So far so good. We'll see what
happens. Thanks again everyone!
>-----Original Message-----
>
>Not particularly baffled... I was waiting to have a
little time to search
>deja.com, where I'd written this up before. Without
further to-do:
>====
>You should be able to set
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\WindowsMed
iaPlayer
>registry value "GroupPrivacyAcceptance" to the REG_DWORD
value 1, and then
>things should likely work. (You will need to create
this registry key and
>value.) This means that you are by proxy accepting the
Privacy Statement
>and other such configuration information for the users
on the system.
>
>However, they (and you) will be able to go to WMP's
Tools:Options:Privacy
>menu and Tools:Options:Media Library menu to further
modify the privacy
>settings as desired.
>===
>
>For whatever reason, your computer is destroying the
values kept under
>HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferen
ces. That's not a
>good sign. Hopefully you're doing that intentionally
for some weird
>paranoia reason, but ... if not, something's wrong with
your system,
>external to WMP.
>
>-Z
>--
>(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
>See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some
helpful WMP info.
>Following up to your post with the resolution is good
netiquette.
>This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no rights.
>All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted -
*use the newsgroups*.
>--
>"Dan" <NATRAPS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:2133801c45a32$43804180$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>>I assume the fact that my problems have not been
>> responded to is because I have baffled you. This is
>> still an issue and if there is ANYONE who knows how to
>> fix this, please let me know!
>>
>> When I try to open the Media Player or a file (.wav
>> or .mp3 etc), I am prompted with a screen to configure
>> Windows Media Player 9. After I configure it the same
>> screen comes up again (it's a loop). When I log off
>> Windows XP or reboot the PC it works fine for a while
>> before doing it again. I have tried uninstalling and
>> reinstalling to no avail. I'm not sure if there's a
>> setting or something that I can change, but logging off
>> the PC everyday or rebooting it is a pain. ANY HELP
>> WOULD BE HELPFUL. Thanks!
>
>
>.
>



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