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PC & MAC CLINIC - On line problem solving. (CPU)     

Crocodile - 16 Dec 2002 03:59

horst - 17 Apr 2003 18:14 - 407 of 11003

Troll,

I finally figured what was wrong after following your advise but did not solve it.
I have a multi-screen setup via a matrox card with 3 monitors.
For some reason 1 (master) 4 & 5. It turns out that for some reason monitor 2 got installed and subsequently the browser opened itself into this "new" monitor. So, the browser opened a normal but on Monitor 2 which seemed for me to disappear into nowhere. Now I have deleted this setup (monitor 2) again it seems to work as before.
This really had me snookered for a while!

thanks for your help!

h

the troll - 17 Apr 2003 20:40 - 408 of 11003

h, Seriously weird, never heard of that before, thanks for posting the explanation.

Iain - 18 Apr 2003 12:40 - 409 of 11003

Help please.
I am trying to uninstall Windows media player version 9.Ive gone to add remove and deleted,Still comes up.
REGED and removed file. Still there!
Programme files, deleted folder.Yes! Its still there.
It will not display video for some reason. Says there is a codec error.Ive tried re-downloading it with no sucsess.thats why I want to delete it and start again.
Any clues

DocProc - 18 Apr 2003 12:47 - 410 of 11003

Iain

Click HERE

Iain - 18 Apr 2003 12:54 - 411 of 11003

B****KS Looks like im stuffed.Many thanks though Doc.

porky - 18 Apr 2003 13:18 - 412 of 11003

Iain.
Buy an applemac machine you just DO NOT have these sort of problems,it was the best move I have ever made,no more blue screens,get the odd spinning beachball of death, but you can just forcequit, fire up the browser and carry on surfing.
You will never reget the move.
Kind regards.

Iain - 18 Apr 2003 13:42 - 413 of 11003

Tried to download earlier version.Wont Install as i have newer version.Tried system restore without luck.Looks like im stuck with media player, that doesnt! :-(

Seymour Clearly - 18 Apr 2003 22:09 - 414 of 11003

Iain, just a thought, you could see if there's anything on www.tucows.com that might help / offer an alternative.

DocProc - 19 Apr 2003 09:24 - 415 of 11003

Iain

I found the following:-

"Just execute this command to uninstall Windows Media Player 9 from Windows XP:

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall

If you dont believe me, then check the wmp.inf before you do this.

I found this solution on Annoyances.org
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/winxp/r1037649636

Thanks to Rachid, who posted this solution first.

I only had to correct the command line parameter afterwards from "%L" to "%1" and the good old Media Player 6.4 was working again."

Together with this:-

I'm trying to use your method to uninstall WMP 9, but everytime I put

RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall

into the Run box, it will give a popup that says

Error: could not locate INF file '% windir%\INF\wmp.inf'

Q. What am I doing wrong?

A. Check if wmp.inf is in your C:\windows\inf directory.

If not, probably something went wrong trying to install or uninstall WMP9. Try installing WMP9 again and then use the uninstall command as mentioned to uninstall it again.

Not everybody knows how to apply the manual uninstall so I will explain it step by step:

Go to your "Start" menu and click "Run".

Copy "RunDll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection % windir%\INF\wmp.inf,Uninstall"

into the dialog box and click "OK".

WMP9 should uninstall now.

Iain - 19 Apr 2003 13:42 - 416 of 11003

Thats sorted it Doc. thanks for your and others help. Fantastic to know there is help out there that doesnt cost 1 a minute :-)
A final problem.Im using two monitors with a Matrox g550 card. When I try to play a video through media player on both screens, it only shows in one of the monitors. It plays fine in one but if I drag it to both. Only get the one half playing.
Iain

Iain - 22 Apr 2003 09:09 - 417 of 11003

Still cant sort the above out.Anyone know what the problem could be?

Kayak - 22 Apr 2003 09:46 - 418 of 11003

Iain, I don't have the answer to that I'm afraid, short of suggesting you ask Matrox on their forum at http://www.matrox.com, but I'm curious as to why you would want to display a video split across two screens!

Iain - 22 Apr 2003 10:03 - 419 of 11003

Just for the hell of it;-)
My kids wanted to watch the harry potter DVD on the Computer and were V dissapointed that it wouldnt play in both screens and so was I.

mikeran - 22 Apr 2003 10:47 - 420 of 11003

Error message on start up-- I get the following error message on start up "Unhandled exception C0000005 at address 100016b" then it says ok if I click on ok it dissappears and says the usual " do you want to send an error Report. Nothing seems to be affected on my PC and it of course cancels every time when I click ok. Pc is using Windows XP home and XP office.
Any ideas on how to correct appreciated-- many thanks.

mikeran - 22 Apr 2003 22:00 - 421 of 11003

Well its dissapointing---- NO replies mmmm

robber - 22 Apr 2003 22:24 - 422 of 11003

mikeran, have you used kaza in the past?

Neil

Seymour Clearly - 22 Apr 2003 23:44 - 423 of 11003

Mikeran, have you installed any new software - I get this with Win 98 running (strangely) Norton Internet Security, OK before it was installed, Symantec not a lot of help.

leo1 - 23 Apr 2003 00:06 - 424 of 11003

Have you looked in event viewer under administrative tools?

robber - 23 Apr 2003 00:12 - 425 of 11003

Mike and Seymour.

A search on google came up with the following explaination which I hope points you towards a solution.

BTW Indications are that running anti spy software such as adaware will clear the problem.
Click Here and scroll down the page that appears

Seymour Clearly - 23 Apr 2003 00:26 - 426 of 11003

Thanks Robber, will take a look. Time I had XP though I think.
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