Re: Control Panel not coming up

From: Pamelo (nowhere_at_nowhere.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: 17 Nov 2004 00:59:28 -0600

"=?Utf-8?B?YWRkaWs=?=" <ad***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:BB0272CF-BE87-4AA1-9CEA-166C2FC0E706@microsoft.com:

> Thanks a lot Don. I went through all of the things you suggested,
> except for creating a new user, as I couldn't access user
> configuration without access to control panel.
>
> None of it worked, until I saw you mentioned the possibility of DivX
> screwing things up. I thought of recently installed codecs and found
> the latest one was called the Matroska Pack, which is a set of audio,
> video, and subtitle codecs for Windows Media Player. I uninstalled
> that and it worked like a charm. I remember now that Matroska screwed
> things up some months ago as well. Looks like I'll have to be careful
> with that set of codecs.
>
> Thanks for the info though.

You should read here on issue number 2.
http://packs.matroska.org/issues/

Issue: The user has installed the Matroska Full Pack using the "full"
setting instead of the "standard" setting resulting in the Morgan Stream
Switcher and Matrix Mixer being installed. Both of these can potentially
cause video files not to play back on certain system configurations.

Solution: Uninstall the Matroska Full Pack and reinstall it using the
default "standard" option.

One interesting note is that sometimes these filters are installed by other
programs and this can be fixed by installing the pack using the "full"
option and then uninstalling it and reinstalling it with the "standard"
option. This can fix a lot of unrelated issues.

Pamelo