Media Player 10 messed up after installing VST instruments

G

Guest

can anyone help me with this one? I'm a musician using XP and I recently
upgraded from Cubase 5.1 to SX. Yesterday I downloaded a few new VST
instruments from a reliable website (www.kvr-vst.com) and installed them into
Cubase. I played a CD shortly afterwards and noticed that the sound quality
in Media Player 10 was very distorted - I put it down to the dodgy volume
control on my speakers. However, when I rebooted the computer a couple of
hours later my CD-Rom drive tray started inexplicably opening and closing of
its own accord and wouldn't work. When I tried playing a CD in my DVD drive
Media Player kept crashing. One of the VSTs that I downloaded must have
caused a conflict so I uninstalled the VSTs but the problem remained. I've
now uninstalled Cubase as well - I can now play discs in my CD-Rom drive but
the tray still pops out now and again and Media Player is working again but
the sound is still very distorted. When I play a disc using Real Player the
sound quality's fine. I'm really stumped on this one so if anyone can help
I'd appreciate it.
 
B

Burt

Gort,
Trust me, I am having a myriad of problems with WMP10 also... I was
running WMP9 and was playing an mp3 out of a folder on my machine and all of
a sudden there is a window popped up and said it was installing WMP10.. When
it finished it's install, most of my mp3's are distorted as you say yours
are... OK .. Now, I went to UNinstall the WMP10 and it was not in
ADD/REMOVE programs so I did a system restore to a point only a few hours
before this WMP10 installed itself with no intervention on my part and it
wouldn't accept the system restore point.. SOooo, I tried an earlier restore
point and same thing... So, in following another thread on here with WMP10
problems, I downloaded a NEW COPY of the WMP10 and installed it over the top
and no cigar.. It installed but I still have the really scratchy sound... I
had NO problems with my sound system prior to this. I am running top of the
line stuff on this computer and I keep all updates on everything current
such as AdAware SE, SpyBot, etc. All virus scans come up clean... Anyway, I
still cannot UNinstall the WMP10.. I would like to go back to the WMP9 and I
tried that and when you go to install it pops a window that says "You are
already running a newer version".... I am not a happy camper at the moment
about this.. I found that ALL my restore points were corrupted so I purged
the whole bunch of them and then reinstalled WMP10, again over the top of
itself thinking that maybe then I would have an UNinstall feature... Again
NO CIGAR...
I hope somebody comes in here with a FIX for this mess.
--
Burt
The Old Alaskan
MVP's listed on TECKPAGE
http://www.cvinternet.net/~smokydog
http://www.cvinternet.net/~smokydog/teckpage.htm
 
G

Guest

thanks for replying Burt.

aah - I was planning to go down the uninstall/reinstall WMP10 road if I
don't get any solutions posted but you wouldn't recommend it? Not being too
clued up on the technical side I was wondering if I just couldn't download
and reinstall WMP10 over my current one and it would ask me if I want to
replace files 'n' stuff. It's the CD tray popping in and out of its own
accord that's really doing my head in more than anything and the usual
problem of Sod's Law - I'd only just been telling myself how good my
computer's been since I got it when the problem emerged.
 
B

Burt

Gort,
I too have had no problems. I bought this new Dell (very custom order)
and it has all the bells and whistles and has run like a gem for a year now
and then THIS problem occurred.. I have eliminated sound card problems
(there wasn't any, but I did download and install updated drivers from
Creative and installed them). I am not having any other problems.. I don't
like the fact that I can't UNinstall the WMP10.. On somebody elses post,
"Nutcase" said to just OVERinstall it, so I tried that too, but no cigar..
As I said, I hope somebody has an answer here to UNinstall WMP10...
Burt
 

Ask a Question

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

You'll need to choose a username for the site, which only take a couple of moments. After that, you can post your question and our members will help you out.

Ask a Question

Top