Re: Is there a safe way to purge or initialize WMP Registry attributes
- From: "zachd [ms]" <zachd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:56:47 -0800
Ouch.
There's many layers here of absolutely Not Good things that have happened to
your system.
* Manually uninstalling WMP10 on MCE:
Don't do that, that will leave you in a potentially unrecoverable state.
Your system should have had newer files that you will not be able to get
from anywhere else.
* Installing "various codec packages":
Don't do that, that will leave you in a potentially unrecoverable state.
It's also redundant and unnecessary, since codecs are best installed one at
a time on an as-needed basis.
* Deleting WMP's registry
Don't do that, that will leave you in a potentially unrecoverable state. It
99% wouldn't touch the problem anyways, since the problem is more likely a
system sound card setting than anything native to the WMP registry hive.
We're trending here. Whoever told you any of those things were viable:
don't listen to them. They are providing you with not only bad but fairly
incompetent advice.
Let's totally ignore all that. Nobody has any idea what state your system
is in. You had one problem, and all the steps you've mentioned so far will
very sadly have probably made the problem worse. Thankfully it sounds like
you haven't stomped on the registry yet. If the player is still running at
all, those results are what you're interested in. You've been ill-advised
to fix things by deleting them... you now need to stop that. The current
errors you're encountering are what you care about. You're not going to be
able to fix those by uninstall/deleting.
So:
What happens when you try to play audio? Is sndrec32.exe or mplay32.exe
able to produce audio? Read: is it just WMP that's having audio problems?
-Zach
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"gls_1959" <gls1959@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:FB7B762B-5C33-40C7-AAC9-A8496BA4B23A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I've had ongoing issues with WMP 10 within MCE. Even with
> basic audio files which WMP claims to have codec support for,
> they just don't play or the audio portion does not come out. At
> this point the only files I can reliably play are ASF, MP3, WMA
> and WMV file types. Everything else gets C00D1199 or no sound.
> I have uninstalled and re-installed WMP a couple times, tried various
> codec packages but still something is disconnected.
>
> My question is, how can I initialize the MediaPlayer Registry
> attributes to a known good starting point. Even after uninstalling
> the app, the registry data is still there. If I delete the MediaPlayer
> registry directories under under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and
> HKEY_CURRENT_USER will they safely return when I re-install
> WMP 10? A system "restore" will not help me here since this
> is a brand new MCE OS install in which WMP 10 has never
> been fully functional.
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