Solved mine too, thanks zachd. After all this time trying various solutions.
What a fragile system.

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> No, there is no way to do this. Windows Media Player is an integrated part
> of Windows Vista, and thus in order to accomplish your goal you would likely
> need to reinstall Vista.
>
> You could potentially run something like this from an administrative command
> prompt:
> ===
> for %a in (%systemroot%\system32\wm*.dll) do regsvr32 /s %a
> ===
> , but that probably wouldn't fix any externally source corruptions, and most
> sources of corruptions/problems in WMP come from external issues, not from
> anything that the voodoo of a reinstall would fix. =\
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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> "bucfan" <bucfan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:5F7CAAFC-B79A-4560-996C-F9888BBE3EA0@microsoft.com...
> > Is there any way to do this? Obviously most of us know it is not an option
> > uner "Add/Remove Programs" but I am sure there has to be some way. Has
> > anyone
> > found a way to do remove it yet? I would like really just to re-install it
> > from scratch but you dont even get an option to Repair.
>
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