According to some tests I ran, this appears to be sourced due to the
installation/uninstall of SatelliteTVforPC, which does some particularly
extremely very bad things. Was that on your system?
I've got a system in this state now to look at, but I haven't yet
identified
what they've done. They install a v10 non-Vista compatible WMP file to
the
system, which was why everything originally broke. Re-registering the
v11
WMP file (as you did below) fixes up a lot of stuff, but not the Toolbar
aspect.
So:
* If you had had System Restore on, you should have been able to use
that
* SatelliteTVforPC product support may have answers here. What their
installer did was very very bad.
I'll look at my system in this state when I get a chance, but I've got a
ton
of stuff going on right now. What does SatelliteTVforPC product support
say
about this?
--
Speaking for myself only.
See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
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I don't remember exactly but i think the only thing on my system that
could
mess it up would be tuneup utilities 2007.
Well, it does work in IE atleast on that page you sent me, and it is
enabled, so thats fine. the only thing is now that when i close it
with
the
toolbar enabled it doesnt close i have to end the process manually in
task
manager, and the toolbar still doesnt work. i had system restore
turned
off
before this happened and it remains disabled.
:
WMP.dll is the real key, so you're probably at least 80% healthy now.
=\
What did you install or uninstall before this happened? That may be
fairly
key to resolving this...
The fact that this still isn't working in IE is probably the most
interesting. What's the value for the registry key we talked about
now?
So
http://zachd.com/pss/allbrowser.htm
doesn't show WMP in IE? Dumb question again, but is WMP turned on in
IE's
Tools:Manage Add-ons?
Unfortunately, only you have access to your system and know what's
changed
upon it - this isn't how Vista works out of box. Since this is all
educated
guesswork on everyone's part as to what's changed on your system,
it's
potentially easy to stymie us. If all else fails, either a System
Restore
or a Vista reinstall ~should~ fix you up... again, depending upon
what's
changed from how Vista shipped to you. =\
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http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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darn. it still does not work.... tell me you have other ideas up
your
sleve?
i will do all the dll's if i have to lol
:
That's very interesting. Given that data, does running:
regsvr32 "%programfiles%\windows media player\wmpband.dll"
from an Administrative cmd.exe prompt then finally restore the
Toolbar?
If that does, that meanst that both wmp.dll and wmpband.dll were
unregistered.
And I'm really insanely curious to know what's caused this on your
system.
This is nutty.
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See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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ok so this is weird, i did what u said to do in cmd and stuff,
it
helps
somewhat by bringing back all my options, but still when
minimized
it
doesnt
do the toolbar, and it still doesn't show the player in IE so i
still
can't
view anything that has to do with media player on IE or w/e. The
weird
part
is when i have WMP Toolbar disabled (Right Click Task Bar>
Toolbars>
Windows
Media Player[unchecked]) it closes normally. but when i have it
enabled
it
doesnt work still but when i close wmp the process is still
running
in
task
manager and i can still here music although i cant see wmp on my
taskbar
at
all....
:
What did you install or uninstall before this happened? Please
please
please let me know - I really need to know who's breaking WMP
here.
=\
If you open cmd.exe using Run as Administrator and then run:
regsvr32 wmp.dll
, you should be fixed again. That *will* break progressive
download
in
IE,
though. If you reset --
http://zachd.com/pss/VistaAssocFix.reg
, that will then fix progressive download. =\
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See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
confers no
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HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}\InprocServer32on
does not exist on my system. Unless its hidden for some
reason in
regedit....
:
That's great additional data, thanks. What's the value
for--
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6}\InprocServer32on
this system?What other TV, MPEG, DVD, and multimedia
players/editors
are
on the systemnow? My first suspicion is that one of them
stomped
on
WMP
settings.Given what you're saying so far, it sounds fairly
certain
that
WMP.dll isbusted. Identifying the cause for that would be
of
high
interest to me, andit should be fairly straight-forward to
fix
you
up
if
we can identify theprecise problem.-Zach--Speaking for
myself
only.See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.This
posting
is
provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
rights.--"Topgun"
messageam
using 32 bit vista ultimate, and it came installed, i never
had
to>
install it. it hasnt crashed that i remember, what is LUA?
and
yes
it
usedto> work, also the wmp plugin for IE doesnt work, like
if
something
uses wmpon a>
page like its embeded, it does not work for me either, and
also
when
i
goto> options all it shows is burn options and no others.....
this
has
become> extremely annoying please i have been searching for a
solution
for
weeks> now....>> "zachd [MSFT]" wrote:>>>>> What happened
before
this
installed? Are you logged in as"Administrator"?>> Is LUA on?
Did
the
shell crash at some point? Is this 64bit or 32bit>> Vista?
Assuming
it's
turned on (it is) and WMP was minimized (it was),that>>
indicates
that
there's some cross-process communication problem.>>
Potentially
something
else can interfere here, so if something wasinstalled>> and
then
this
broke, that would be very suspect. Did this ever work?>>>>
Nobody
knows
what you tried, so we may be going over old ground. Forthat
I>>
apologize. =)>>>> -->> Speaking for myself only.>> See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.>>
This
posting
is
provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers
norights.>> -->>
"Topgu"
WMP
Toolbar
is not showing, and when i right click taskbar and go to>> >
toolbars>>
it is already enabled, i am running vista ultimate. How do i
fix
this?Now>> > don't give me a bull crap answer that will
mislead
me
because
i havehad>> > this>> > issue for over a few weeks and i have
tried
numerous simple things, sotry>> > to>> > give me a different
route
to
solve this problem. So far i have not seen>> > anyone able to
fix
this
issue....>>>>>>
