Windows Media Player Quit

Windows Media Player suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. I see
that other people have had exactly the same problem but I have not seen any
solutions published. I have Windows Home Vista premium.The message I get is
that the file wmploc.dll has a version 11.0.6000.6336 where 11.0.6000.6324
was expected. what does this mean and what is the solution. If it is a
problem with Vista then surely Microsoft should fix it. Any advice PLEASE.

Glenn:

There is a cumulative update for Windows Media Player 11 in Vista. You
might try that, even though it will get you yet another version of
wmploc.dll. I would certainly back up the original version(s) of that DLL
before doing this.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941651/en-us
Hope it's worth trying...


"Glenn" wrote:

> Windows Media Player suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. I see
> that other people have had exactly the same problem but I have not seen any
> solutions published. I have Windows Home Vista premium.The message I get is
> that the file wmploc.dll has a version 11.0.6000.6336 where 11.0.6000.6324
> was expected. what does this mean and what is the solution. If it is a
> problem with Vista then surely Microsoft should fix it. Any advice PLEASE.
>

If you reboot and aren't fixed up, open up "cmd.exe" using Run As
Administrator (you must do this or this won't work) and then run:
unregmp2.exe /UpdateWMPVersion
in that prompt. After that, this will work.

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"Glenn" <Glenn@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6E81A9F7-56AC-41E8-8120-CF04402CBAEB@microsoft.com...
> Windows Media Player suddenly stopped working for no apparent reason. I
> see
> that other people have had exactly the same problem but I have not seen
> any
> solutions published. I have Windows Home Vista premium.The message I get
> is
> that the file wmploc.dll has a version 11.0.6000.6336 where 11.0.6000.6324
> was expected. what does this mean and what is the solution. If it is a
> problem with Vista then surely Microsoft should fix it. Any advice PLEASE.
>

[Roving]

Thanks to all of you for the suggestions. I found that I had the latest version with the most recent updates, so I threw in the towel last night. This morning I found that it had chosen to function as it should. Karma from this group no doubt had the influence needed to fix the problem. Roving