Anilrgowda

Problem: Created an image 10 months ago, no complaints, everything has been working fine. Wanting to rollout Microsoft Office Communicator, a problem occurs, where it starts and than closes automatically. I than noticed that none of the computers reimaged with this build can play wav, avi files, unless I run a Windows XP repair. However their is close to 150 computers with this build and would prefer not to reimage, or repair each one.

What I've tried so far?
Installed Media Player 9, 10, 11 removing the previous media player each time. However I than found that even mplayer2.exe won't play any of these files.
I reregistered every single dll starting with wm*.dll within the System32 folder, which made no difference.
Checked file associations. OK
Checked wav files could be played on earlier build computer. OK

Does anyone know how to reregister Windows Media Player from scratch.

Solution
Install Gspot and open notify.wav.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/download.html
Look at the bottom and you'll see info about Dshow attempting
to open the file. On my system (which is fine) file was successfully rendered and "wave parser" was
the audio codec. This is a part of quartz.dll.

Zachd recommends taking a restore point, and then registering quartz.dll and devenum.dll using regsvr32.
(This files are in \windows\system32)

nubhost

so im right to assume this was solved right?

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