Windows media player problem

[illflem]

Won't open this is what I get



WMPLAYER caused an invalid page fault in

module OLEAUT32. DLL at 016f:653aac21.

Registers:

EAX=000042e9 CS=016f EIP=653aac21 EFLGS=00010282

EBX=00000000 SS=0177 ESP=00624bc8 EBP=00624bec

ECX=65350218 DS=0177 ESI=0040aaac FS=50cf

EDX=00000000 ES=0177 EDI=00624edd GS=0000

Bytes at CS:EIP:

02 00 00 83 6c 24 04 08 e9 d4 00 00 00 83 6c 24

Stack dump:

653997f5 0041420c 00624edc 00000000 00000000 bff7a10e bff7a567 00400000 0040aa9c 00624c2c 6539983d 00414210 00624ca0 00000000 00624edc 00624ec8

 

[Doc Tinker]

If you haven't already done it, try un-installing the media player and re-installing the latest version.



Doc

 

[BK]

the other thing to try along with the unsintall like doc said are... .

before you reinstall, clean up the drive, remove all the temp files. Do a scan disk and defrag. Then reinstall the program.

This way the program will have a large unused area to write it's self during the install and wont be fragmented.



Some times the all the files associated with a particular file get tossed all over the drive and during the time it takes the machine to find them, it's too long and errors occur while trying to read or write them into operational memory.



Other times it could be just another program running at the same time and they both try and access the same spot in memory. If it keeps happening start looking for other programs your running at the same time. Some times your recently updated AV will cause problems. . then the problems go away (AV company does another update after reported problems) after your machine does an auto update or you do one.



Other times it could be the last program or update that wound up updating a DLL that (in this case) Window Media uses... . hence the crash and just the reinstall or update (just as Doc suggested) will work since it will put back a compatible DLL.



just some more ammo for your clip.



good luck

Bob

 

[Doc Tinker]

Good point BK - I concur



Doc