Media player won't start

[steve]

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I didn't touch a thing! One day mediaplayer won't start. I have a back
up of the registry and I tried to find anything that changed but the file is
huge and is not in the same order as in regedit. Unfortunately I had booted
more than five times before I discovered the problem and scanreg finds no
errors. I used one of my spyware checkers and it found a registry change(i
don't remember which one found it)in "Client Id". I can't find that in my
backup. Any ideas?


Thanks in advance

Steve

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion (More info?)

It doesn't matter how many times you've *booted*, it's how many *days*
since the problem occurs. If you haven't disabled the automatic running
of SCANREG at startup, you have five *days* of Registry backups, one
backup per day. Try restarting in MS-DOS mode and running

scanreg /restore

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Steve" <stevered@nospam.acadia.net> wrote in message
news:1152ruopovan0ff@corp.supernews.com...
> I didn't touch a thing! One day mediaplayer won't start. I have a
back
> up of the registry and I tried to find anything that changed but the
file is
> huge and is not in the same order as in regedit. Unfortunately I had
booted
> more than five times before I discovered the problem and scanreg finds
no
> errors. I used one of my spyware checkers and it found a registry
change(i
> don't remember which one found it)in "Client Id". I can't find that in
my
> backup. Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Steve
>
>