I am running windows vista home premieum and everything was working fine untill a recent update. WMP got an update and now the damn thing will not even launch. I attempted to do a system restore but it always fails. The old version which always worked was 11.0.6000.6324 the new version which will not even launch is 11.0.6000.6336 I have attempted to launch it from a shortcut icon also by clicking on a wmv file and have attempted to launch it straight from programme files but everytime I get the same results, it attemts to load for a SPLIT second but then does nothing(no error message or anything) I am currently using VLC media player but I would like to get WMP back up and running(mainly because the video section of windows media centre no longer works because of it) Any help welcome.
Is it opening off screen, like as if you had a WS monitor and opening off to the left or does it not even show as running in your taskbar?
I right-clicked and selected "Run as Administrator" which worked!! (after I give permission for the action) so then I had the idea of turning off User Account Control altoghether, which worked!! It seems that microsofts security system was seeing WMP as a threat!!!!!!!! User Account Control was refusing to allow me to open WMP without even giving me the normal option of allowing it myself manually(the pop up box)
