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HSH
Here's my sorry-story of my sad-situation:
While trying to tweak the SPDIF-linkages between my ASUS P4P800-E
Realtek ALC850 onboard-sound-device and my M-audio AP2496,
my Windows Media Player 10 became buggy :
When I attempt to add an Album or Song to the Now Playing panel,
WMA 10 causes a full-lockup of my WinXP SP2, with a non-responsive KB
& Mouse, which necessitates a reboot.
I attempted a System Restore back to a known functional-state, but the
lockup-behaviour persists.
Next I tried to utilize PowerQuest DriveImage to revert back to an
even earlier copy of my C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player
folder + sub-folders, but WMA continues to seize-up.
Then I tried to use >ControlPanel >Add/Remove Windows Components,
to rollback to WMA 9, but this method fails to dislodge WMA 10,
and the system-lockup still persists.
lastly, I attempted the brute-force approach of manually-deleting all
the files contained within the \Windows Media Player folder &
subfolders. but discovered that WinXP "self-heals" from my brutish
actions, and auto-magically restores SOME of the original files that
I've attempted to eliminate.
(So I suspect that there are some critical files within the C:\Windows
and perhaps \systems or \systems32 subfolders to enable this
auto-recovery voodoo...)
SO NOW I've got a thoroughly-mangled installation of WMP 9/10.
Short of a full reformat + fresh install of WinXP SP2,
is there any way to salvage, recover or perform a
clean-slate/fresh-install of Windows Media Player?
(and while i recognize that there are numerous non-MSFT media-player
alternatives that are freely available,
i figure that if WMP & its various sub-components are inextricably
integrated into the XP OS-system,
then it would be best to have a FUNCTIONAL version on my HDD.)
Thanks in advance for any tips or guidance!
HSH
While trying to tweak the SPDIF-linkages between my ASUS P4P800-E
Realtek ALC850 onboard-sound-device and my M-audio AP2496,
my Windows Media Player 10 became buggy :
When I attempt to add an Album or Song to the Now Playing panel,
WMA 10 causes a full-lockup of my WinXP SP2, with a non-responsive KB
& Mouse, which necessitates a reboot.
I attempted a System Restore back to a known functional-state, but the
lockup-behaviour persists.
Next I tried to utilize PowerQuest DriveImage to revert back to an
even earlier copy of my C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player
folder + sub-folders, but WMA continues to seize-up.
Then I tried to use >ControlPanel >Add/Remove Windows Components,
to rollback to WMA 9, but this method fails to dislodge WMA 10,
and the system-lockup still persists.
lastly, I attempted the brute-force approach of manually-deleting all
the files contained within the \Windows Media Player folder &
subfolders. but discovered that WinXP "self-heals" from my brutish
actions, and auto-magically restores SOME of the original files that
I've attempted to eliminate.
(So I suspect that there are some critical files within the C:\Windows
and perhaps \systems or \systems32 subfolders to enable this
auto-recovery voodoo...)
SO NOW I've got a thoroughly-mangled installation of WMP 9/10.
Short of a full reformat + fresh install of WinXP SP2,
is there any way to salvage, recover or perform a
clean-slate/fresh-install of Windows Media Player?
(and while i recognize that there are numerous non-MSFT media-player
alternatives that are freely available,
i figure that if WMP & its various sub-components are inextricably
integrated into the XP OS-system,
then it would be best to have a FUNCTIONAL version on my HDD.)
Thanks in advance for any tips or guidance!
HSH