Re: Right click?
- From: Deefer <Deefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:59:01 -0700
Just letting you know that I have found the issue to be caused by a shell
extension which is part of the nVidia drivers.
The shell extension is called "Playonmytv" and removal requires the deletion
of 2 registry keys per affected file type.
A forum article regarding the issue can be found here. Warning though it
advocates deletion of registry keys and could be disasterous if mucked up.
http://forums.nvidia.com/lofiversion/index.php?t1517.html
It's even mention in a Microsoft Expert zone chat transcript
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone/chats/transcripts/050125_wxp.mspx
So it's been around and known of since January last year at the least -
without nVidia providing any way to disable easily.
Thanks for your responses and I apologise for pointing the finger
incorrectly at media player. Hopefully though someone else will be saved the
hassle of tracking down a solution by reading this post.
Darren.
"zachd [ms]" wrote:
.
This should just be a problem in nVidia here - WMP doesn't do anything
interesting on right-click.
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#vdriver
may help.
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"Deefer" <Deefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Well I've installed XP for the second time tonight. Results are as
follows.
Install XP with SP1 - No problem
Install SP2 - No problem
Install nVidia driver - Problem
So it looks like there is an interaction between MP and the nVidia
drivers.
What it is would take a developer of one of the 2 products to determine.
If
you want to find out I'm willing to run more tests.
Darren.
"Deefer" wrote:
Thanks for the response. Much appreciated.
The explaination you've given is plausible. So to test it I've done a
fresh
install of XP to another partition. After the install I've put on XP SP2,
The
intel mobo drivers, the LAN drivers, and the nVidia drivers. That's it.
No
other software. I haven't even run media player for the first time yet.
But the problem is still there. Same as before. Only happens on media
player
associated video files. Audio files are fine.
I'm fairly keen to find a solution to this problem. You're from MS so you
have access to resources I don't. If you'll take me seriously I'm
prepared to
do any number of tests for you. A problem of this type has to be of
interest
to the MP development team. It's not a crash type bug so you won't
collect
any crash data on it through the normal channels. It's also something I
suspect may affect as many as 1 in a thousand users but most don't
realise
it's a problem. My only regret at this point is that I didn't test before
I
installed the nVidia drivers. Of course the night is young and I've got a
bit
of time to spare so there may be another post from me soon.
Thanks.
Darren.
"zachd [ms]" wrote:
Reread my post that you included below yours. =) I don't recall what
application you installed, but you've installed a third party
non-Microsoft
application that is being invoked when you're right-clicking.
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"Deefer" <Deefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have this exact same problem. And I know another guy who has it as
well.
Here's a post I've about the issue.
====================================================
I have a very very strange problem that I'm experiencing with Media
Player.
I'm wondering if anyone else has seen it or if MS is even aware of
the
issue.
Basically the problem involves the screen flickering or occassionally
going
black for a second or so. But the weird thing is this isn't during
playback
of any media file. It's when I right click on any video file that is
associated with Media Player. That's right - all I have to do is
right
click
on a media player associated video file. Association with any other
media
playing application does not cause the problem - it's only media
player.
And it's 100% reproducible.
And now for some more weirdness. It only started doing it when I
changed
monitors.
Ok you say - the new monitor is faulty. Well I'd like to think so but
how
the heck is right clicking on a media file supposed to affect a
monitor at
all?!? It's just a video signal. It doesn't know that I'm right
clicking
on
something. And further to that if it did know I was right clicking on
something why would it only do it for files associated with media
player?!?!
This is 100% reproducible. 100%. It ONLY happens with media player
associated
files. So to me that's a strong indicator that media player is doing
something. What - I don't know - but something.
Anyway - I'm going nuts. If anybody has heard of this kind of a
problem
before and knows any way to possibly resolve the issue I'd love to
hear
it.
Alternatively if you can even provide a plausable explaination as to
why
the
heck this behaviour is occurring in the first place I'd like to hear
that
too.
It's not like this is causing a crash or anything (if it did MS would
know
due to the fault reporting). It's just as annoying as hell. And I'm
not
the
only one with the problem. One of the guys I work with has the exact
same
symptoms to the letter. I asked what type of monitor he has and
unfortunately
we're not the same. Also not every version of Media player causes the
issue.
I'm running v10.00.00.4036. I also have an nVidia 7800GTX video card
and
the
monitor I'm using is an HP P1130 (rebadged Sony G520). The res I'm
running
is
1600x1200x85hz but I've tried others and it's the same all the way
down to
800x600.
Any help is appreciated.
Darren.
"zachd [ms]" wrote:
Is this in the player or within Explorer?
Sounds like you installed a third party application that installed
itself
as
a right-click option...
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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
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"risk" <risk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I right click a Movie Clip file my whole screen goes black
for a
second
then goes back to normal with the right clicked list opened, why
would
my
screen do this???????????? does it happen to anyone else??????????
(Windows
Media Player version 10)
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