Windows Media Player does not start (among other programs)

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Matthias Karl

Hi

For quite some time I do have troubles to get Windows Media Player to start
on my WinXP notebook.

In between I managed to get it running once or twice just after upgrading it
to the latest version, but now when I try to start it, I just get a short
while the hourglass and then nothing happens.

It's not really critical, but still annoying, and yet, because one or two
other programs behave similar (for example notepad).

Any ideas on how I could debug that??

Thanks in advance.

Matthias
 
Matthias said:
Hi

For quite some time I do have troubles to get Windows Media Player to
start on my WinXP notebook.

In between I managed to get it running once or twice just after
upgrading it to the latest version, but now when I try to start it, I
just get a short while the hourglass and then nothing happens.

It's not really critical, but still annoying, and yet, because one or
two other programs behave similar (for example notepad).

Any ideas on how I could debug that??

Thanks in advance.

Matthias
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I found this program called Dependency Walker, and it might give some
feedback early in the program loading phase. Dependsx86version2.1.3623
would be for 32 bit Windows.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/256872/en

If a program actually starts to run, you can watch some of its
activities with Process Monitor. You use the filter menu to
select a program to watch, and what that does, is display
just the events for that program. You can see registry
activity and perhaps file activity as well. With a program
like this, you're viewing the side effects of program execution -
if all activity stops, there is no way to know whether the
program is stuck in a loop, or is blocked for some other
reason. So this is not a full visibility tool.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896645.aspx

A developer might use a kernel space or user space debugger,
to figure out what is going on. The last time I tried to use
a debugger, I couldn't get the damn thing to start :-) They
don't always come with nice instruction manuals.

Paul
 
Is "wmplayer.exe" running in the Processes tab of Task Manager... ?
If not, are you generating crash/error events in Event Viewer when you try
to start the player?

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Matthias said:
For quite some time I do have troubles to get Windows Media Player to
start
on my WinXP notebook.

In between I managed to get it running once or twice just after upgrading
it
to the latest version, but now when I try to start it, I just get a short
while the hourglass and then nothing happens.

It's not really critical, but still annoying, and yet, because one or two
other programs behave similar (for example notepad).

Any ideas on how I could debug that??

Thanks in advance.

Matthias
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