Eat my monkeydust » Windows http://eatmymonkeydust.com Life, PHP and Symfony - straight from the monkey's mouth Fri, 07 Oct 2011 14:00:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Windows Vista media player will not start http://eatmymonkeydust.com/2008/07/windows-vista-media-player-will-not-start/ http://eatmymonkeydust.com/2008/07/windows-vista-media-player-will-not-start/#comments Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:50:32 +0000 Russ http://eatmymonkeydust.com/?p=33 I spent ages looking for  a fix for this and found many forums and many “fixes” which worked for some and not for others. Something that I installed (or maybe un-installed) managed to mess up some registered dlls, and nothing I tried from all the helpful suggestions fixed it.

Until today (type these in a command prompt):

regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 wmp.dll

And wow, I was amazed when media player actually started! So thanks to HighConcept on The Green Button who offered the suggestion. I use mostly iTunes anyway… but it had become annoying with embedded media and a few other things that I was trying to achieve with it.

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For the benefit of those of you who cannot link the problem to a specific event, I was lucky in that that’s all I had done beforehand. Unintalling the previous codec pack, and then installing this Vista specific one has solved my problem.

Advanced-Vista-Codec-Package-Download (Softpedia.com)

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