Re: Windows Media Player has lost it's filetype icons

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I'm on Vista, and it's the Windows Media Audio/Video file icons that are
gone, so any wmv files just show as that default icon, they still open, but
it's like the computer lost them


"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


OK, are you on XP or Vista? What file types are you specifically concerned
about?

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"JAK" <JAK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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No, I'm afraid not, I already tried that and it didn't work, I Googled for
Codecs, X Codec Pack, Vista Codecs, etc, and I've managed to clear all of
the
rubbish now, but it took my filetype icons for WMV with it...



"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:


What junk had you installed? I've gotten a variety of bad third parties
to
fix themselves up, if you can let me know who is still out there doing
badness, I'd really appreciate it.

You may be able to go to the Set Program Access and Defaults control
panel,
reassociate to WMP there, and then have it work.

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"JAK" <JAK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I first got my computer, of course Windows Media Player came with
no
Codecs, and I ended up downloading some really junky ones, which I
finally
decided to take off a few days ago, they were slowing videos down,
speeding
them up, etc. Anyway, I've removed them, and replaced them with I
think
two
from wmplugins.com, my only problem is that WMV files that had their
own
icon, are just showing that funny white icon with a screen inside it,
the
one
that shows when a programme or file hasn't been associated with
another.
I
want to reinstall Windows Media Player, or repair it's understanding of
this
filetype, but I can't find a way to. Is there a way to reinstall
Windows
Media Player, and not download the older version online, a way to
trigger
it,
etc? Thanks guys.






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