PDA windows media player issue !

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Some how I instilled program or messed up a registry entry on my Dell
PPC PDA which resulted in windows Media player not opening. When I
start the player, I get a timer icon, then the program tries to start
up, I see garbage on the top bar line, and the load process aborts.
The program does not display any error message not can I can not find
a log of error messages.

I am unsure how to fix this issue, apart from hard reseting my PPC and
then trying to reload all of the data.

Thoughts?

Thanks

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Since MP is in ROM, the only way to fix a corrupted executable is to backup
and do a hard reset.

Bobby

"David" <martindb@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news0hev094a70b6is4go3dbrge2e5hkmnkqi@4ax.com...
> Some how I instilled program or messed up a registry entry on my Dell
> PPC PDA which resulted in windows Media player not opening. When I
> start the player, I get a timer icon, then the program tries to start
> up, I see garbage on the top bar line, and the load process aborts.
> The program does not display any error message not can I can not find
> a log of error messages.
>
> I am unsure how to fix this issue, apart from hard reseting my PPC and
> then trying to reload all of the data.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Thanks
>

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

The version is 8.5 for PPC 2002 OS. Will check the skins.

Thanks


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 00:23:55 -0800, "Robert" <kilt-me@earthlink.net>
wrote:

>"David" <martindb@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>news0hev094a70b6is4go3dbrge2e5hkmnkqi@4ax.com...
>> Some how I instilled program or messed up a registry entry on my Dell
>> PPC PDA which resulted in windows Media player not opening. When I
>> start the player, I get a timer icon, then the program tries to start
>> up, I see garbage on the top bar line, and the load process aborts.
>> The program does not display any error message not can I can not find
>> a log of error messages.
>>
>> I am unsure how to fix this issue, apart from hard reseting my PPC and
>> then trying to reload all of the data.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>
>You didn't say what version WMP.
>If it's 8.5 or 9 (Windows 2002 or 2003) you get that kind of behavior if the
>skins are messed up.
>
>Verify that you have at least the "default.skn" in \program files\windows
>media player\ and that you don't have any add-on skins that may be
>defective.
>
>If you just installed the new rom that comes with 10 (2003SE) that sounds
>like what happens if you restore a backup. On www.aximsite.com there's a
>discussion with the registry file you import to fix this.
>