Re: WMP - Install hangs - runtime errors

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What's the crash bucket number?
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket

Yeah, you're barking up the wrong tree there, most likely.

The final release of the player at the end of the month should answer the
question more definitively though. So sit back, have a drink, and come
Halloween this should resolve itself one way or the other. =\

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"Esschoir" <Esschoir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Run: > c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMP
and you should be good to go.

Did this, now the message I noted previously is gone. But WMP now crashes
almost immediately after the player launches.


I can't imagine how "yui.dll" not being found would have anything to do
with
WMP. That's not a WMP file. A dependency on atl.dll problem would not
be
related to WMP. That's a self-contained "problem" in how a binary is
linked
that doesn't and can't really affect any other app - WMP's current builds
don't do that naymore

What I'm trying to get at is that YMJ needs windows media runtime
libraries
to be properly installed in order to run. I would imagine WMP itself
needs
those libraries to be installed. And those libraries do not seem to be
installing properly. You suggested a possible reason why, and I am trying
to
follow that thread to its logical conclusion.

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Run:
c:\windows\inf\unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMP
and you should be good to go.

I can't imagine how "yui.dll" not being found would have anything to do
with
WMP. That's not a WMP file. A dependency on atl.dll problem would not
be
related to WMP. That's a self-contained "problem" in how a binary is
linked
that doesn't and can't really affect any other app - WMP's current builds
don't do that naymore

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"Esschoir" <Esschoir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I really appreciate your efforts to help. I've been trying to
troubleshoot
this for quite a while before I posted here.

When I launch WMP, it says the exe has version # 11.xxx when it was
expecting 10.xxx. WMP was not installed properly. Do you want to go
online
and reinstall? If I say no it simply exits, if I say yes it
redownloads
WMP
11 and i go thru the same thing all over again.

On the MSI question, a little bit of further background. This multiple
regsvr32 hanging issue first reared its head when I was installing a
version
of Yahoo Music Engine/Jukebox, which I believe relies heavily on WMP,
including its realtime media libraries.

In the YMJ install, if I let the processes go instead of terminating
the
processes in TM, I'd end up with multiple error messages about these
DLL's:
This application has failed to start because yui.dll was not found.
Re-installing may fix Same msg with: MSVCP60.dll MSVCP71.dll
WS2_32.dll
DDRAW.dll expat.dll WSOCK32.dll WMVCore.DLL

Could these be dlls with "dependency on atl.dll " as you state?

Again, thanks so much, even after escalating yahoo tech support to the
YMJ
development team, they are unable to help, probably because the issues
seem
to lie deeper, in the WMP realtime media libraries?

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


What's the exact message you get from WMP when you try to run that
directly?

I believe there are a number of places wherein an MSI can register
themselves for reinstall/maintenance that get invoked when an
atl.dll-dependent binary is registered. I do not know or track those
locations. You have some MSI that registered itself in this fashion
but
does not have a corresponding local install package. As a result, any
DLL
that is registered and has dependency on atl.dll will be stopped due
to
an
windowless/invisible prompt from MSI asking for the location of that
package.

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"Esschoir" <Esschoir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, each time this happens I kill the processes in TM - but the
install
thereafter never completes?

If I try to launch WMP it says to reinstall WMP 11?

How do I fix the "misregistered 3rd party MSI on my system" once and
for
all?

Thanks

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Kill the regsvr32.exe tasks in task manager - those *should* be
being
caused
by a misregistered 3rd party MSI on your system.

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"Esschoir" <Esschoir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Just downloaded and tried to install beta 2 today. Same problem
persists.
So what do I do now?

Thanks

"zachd [ms]" wrote:


Sounds like it. I believe that issue was fixed in Beta 2, which
was
release
last month.

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"Esschoir" <Esschoir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Have tried installing and reinstalling WMP 11, hangs at
various %
points,
but
always where it says it is installing Windows Media File
Format
Runtime

elsewhere on these boards I saw this posted:
<<<It sounds like you hit the ATL registrar/MSI Repair issue
which
locked
up
running regsvr32 ->>>>

Could this be what I'm dealing with? At the time of hanging,
task
manager
shows many running regsvr32 processes, are those what are
locking
up.

My setup log shows various errors, but all with this error
code
[*WMC Logging begun at 2005/10/11 - 19:27:47. Logging at
level:
'5'.
OS
is
NT. OSVer is 5.1.2600.0.2180. System Lang is 1033. Prev
version
system
is
10.0.0.3646. Setup version 10.00.00.3646.]
ERROR: WMC_CopyFile: Could not find source file
'C:\PROGRA~1\WINDOW~2\WMPNS.jar'. Error: '0x80070002'.
WMC_CopyFile: File 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\wmpns.dll' is newer
than
the
version to be installed. No copy will occur.
Current command line: '/Shortcuts /RegBrowsers'.]

Any ideas? Many TIA














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