Re: "Windows Media Player has stopped working"


I would be ecstatic to get a copy of this. (I already purchased a copy a
while ago, but the vendor wouldn't reissue my lost PW). Please send me
details to zachd at microsoft dotty com - this will help me finish my
targeted solution here.

Thanks!
-Zach
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"afwseattle" <afwseattle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Seller was ch3bcd however this was probably a closeout since nothing
similar
to what I bought is currently being offered for sale by the same seller.
I
was a bit skeptical that the program would work, but I didn't think I had
much to lose since it was really cheap.
I already rated the seller as soon as I got the program to work and
receive
international tv stations online on my pc, overall positive feedback since
the seller had not specifically stated it would work with Vista, and had
in
fact delivered the goods, via zip archive. I still have copy of said zip
archive on my hard drive if you need it. To make matters worse, I was also
trying to work with installing a usb analog tv tuner card from Kworld
around
the same time, so wasn't sure which one had caused the problem for sure.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


Ouch - from which seller? I'll follow up with a hundred or so of them in
an
attempt to further squelch this. On the positive side, this might help
me
reproduce the error and thus finally get a tailored fix (my current fix
is
extreme overkill). =\

Thanks for the information, I appreciate it.

-Zach
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"afwseattle" <afwseattle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I got it off ebay. Buyer beware, I guess. I'm surprised a compatibility
warning never popped up for this product.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


There is currently no reinstall for Windows Media Player for Windows
Vista
in any capacity whatsoever, sorry. The Vista install architecture was
not
designed for reinstalls/reapplication of subcomponents. If a
patch/fix
was
available, it would have to more interesting than that. =\

How did you get SatelliteTVforPC 2006, and where did you get it from?
That
should be off the market.

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"afwseattle" <afwseattle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thank you! The information on the page you referenced was most
helpful.
Sure
enough, the offending program was most likely Satellite TV for PC
2006.
Using
the command "regsvr32 wmp.dll" seems to have fixed the problem that
was
preventing Windows Media player from running at all. The plugin for
Internet
Explorer had not been working either since I had installed that
program,
but
I can always reinstall the plugin for Firefox and use it instead if
necessary
since it was not tied directly into the operating system. By the
way, I
also
have an analog TV tuner card from Kworld, and it is also possible
that
something in the software included in that card may have been
incompatible
with Vista. I already updated my video card driver (in response to
another
issue with a 3rd party game), so I knew that wasn't the issue, and I
already
upgraded to the latest version of WMP11 for Vista via automatic
windows
updates. Ironically, this upgrade made it impossible to install the
download
of WMP for Vista off the microsoft site for Windows Media Player
since
an
older version is posted there (6.0.5489.0) and hidden in the Windows
Media
Player for XP section. Seriously, someone should put a section up in
the
Vista section that helps users reinstall Windows Media Player 11 for
Vista
should their copy become corrupted.
Here is the crash info:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.6000.6344
Application Timestamp: 46e5f12e
Fault Module Name: kernel32.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.0.6000.16386
Fault Module Timestamp: 4549bd80
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000494c4
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 1171
Additional Information 2: 12bb25806a6af29c4ccacb639b7ba26e
Additional Information 3: 5bee
Additional Information 4: 5affbbc003a099bc09e613eacd87f746

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


What's the fault bucket data for that crash--
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html#bucket
?

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"afwseattle" <afwseattle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
message
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I have Windows Vista, so uninstalling and reinstalling the player
is
not
an
option. This message now pops up whenever I try to run Windows
Media
Player.
My other music players (like Napster, Realplayer, Quicktime,
Itunes
etc)
all
still work, but Windows Media Player seems broken. This happened
after
I
installed a tv/video program that was designed for XP. I
uninstalled
that
program, and rebooted my computer, but the problem is still
there. I
have
rebooted my computer several times since then, but everytime I
try
to
run
Windows Media Player, I get a message saying "Windows Media
Player
has
stopped working".

I don't want to have to reinstall my entire operating system and
reinstall
all new applications (excluding the one that caused the damage).
I
got
my
system with Vista preinstalled on it. The system restore disk
would
also
wipe
all my music, email saved on my computer, and everything else
that
was
not
on
my hard disk when I got the computer new. I would also have to
reinstall
all
windows updates since then. Argh........











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