Windows Media Player appears in tray as Xvid Video Decoder

MR_AWESOME55 · Jun 8, 2014

I'm not very familiar with video codecs, but a while ago I accidentally installed Xvid or some variant of it while attempting to install compatibility packs for Deus Ex. Now, whenever I start watching a video with Windows Media Player, it appears in the system tray as "Xvid Video Decoder".

I also noticed in the tray customization that there is an "Xvid Video Decoder" entry attached to "COM Surrogate" as well.

Is there any way to remove this? I've looked around the net and couldn't find anything, and tried "Codec Sniper", but it didn't really seem to help.

Thanks for any help, and I can upload photos if need be as well

scout_03 · Jun 8, 2014

read this http://www.shouldiremoveit.com/Xvid-Video-Codec-5250-program.aspx

MR_AWESOME55 · Jun 8, 2014

Okay, at the very least, Windows Media Player now works properly. To fix that, I deleted:

xvid.ax
xvidcore.dll
xvidvfw.dll

located at C:\Windows\SysWOW64. Not sure if it killed the rest of the stuff, but it's a start

MR_AWESOME55 · Jun 8, 2014

tea urchin :

Do you think it would be advisable to also delete any registry keys pertaining to Xvid, or just leave them alone? I could probably just backup the registry first using Ccleaner, then try it out

MR_AWESOME55 · Jun 8, 2014

scout_03 :

Thanks for the suggestion, but it doesn't have an install folder anywhere, and doesn't have an entry in "Programs and Features" in Control Panel

scout_03 · Jun 8, 2014

with ccleaner you could also use glary utilities http://www.glarysoft.com/ it will find thing that ccleaner does not also there revo uninstaller to check for left over registery keys http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_uninstaller_free_download.html use the free one .

photonboy · Jun 8, 2014

Get the k-Lite STANDARD codec pack. It can help cleanup codec dependencies as well when it installs:
http://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

I've been using this for years and think it's the best video player and codec tool. If WMP still launches, associate the file type with MPC-HC.

MR_AWESOME55 · Jun 8, 2014

scout_03 :

Glary seemed to pick up a lot of registry issues, so that was pretty awesome, but it didn't find anything to do with Xvid. Revo wasn't able to find anything about Xvid either.

tea urchin :

I do typically use CCleaner often, but it never found anything related to Xvid. Thanks for the heads up that Xvid is a legitimate codec though, I'll be sure to look out for it in the future.

photonboy :

So I opened regedit before and after running the installer, and it looks like it killed all the registry keys related to the "Xvid Video Decoder". Thanks!

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