Hi there I Have a Sony fe41z Laptop with Windows Vista Home Premium.
The problem was nothing happened when I clicked on any file that windows media player would deal with example: .wmv or .mp3.
My first instinct that UAC (User Account Control was involved).
When I right clicked Windows Media Player 11 and chose run as administrator it ran like it should.
Next was to turn off UAC and bingo the problem went with it.
So for whatever reason the UAC wasn’t reaching elevation and just stopped. WMplayer.exe was not present on the task manager
Naturally disabling UAC isn’t the best solution for security.
I think stuck between a Rock and hard place best describes the situation.
If anyone knows of a better work around or solution, leave a comment.
I had this problem.
MS solution (didn't work for me but try anyway): Press the windows key and R at the same time and the RUN bax shows.
Type the following lines and after each one hit enter:
regsvr32 jscript.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
If this doesn't work then the way i fixed it was to install VM Ware. Don't know why that fixed it but something in the install did fix it and i haven't had any problems since.
Hope it works for you
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