Re: Windows ME and KB828026

"Robert" <> wrote in message
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>I have read and tried to make the changes as described
>@www3.telus.net(etc.)
> My problem here is that I have no Windows MEdia Player Hotfix
> listed ion my
> add/remove programms within the control panel. I don't even show a
> Windows
> Media Player, but I do have ver. 9.0 on my computer. Are there any
> suggestions? Am I looking in the right place? Any advise
> (preferably good) is
> and would be appreciated.
> --
> Thank you for your time. Robert

I believe that there is an error in one of the Registry keys in the
inf files for installing the update.

The key

HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows Media Player\wm828026",
"IsInstalled",0x00010001, 01

should be

HKLM,"SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\Windows Media Player\wm828026",
"IsInstalled",0x00000001, 01

The Windows update is expecting to see a "1" if the update is
installed. This incorrect key creates a large value of "65537"
which is the same as "0" to Windows Update. So you get into a
cycle.

I manually moved the files to the correct location. There were no
Registry entries for this update. I manually added all the keys to
the Registry but one could probably use Winzip to extract the update
file and edit the appropriate inf file based upon the version of
Media Player you have. Then you would right-click and Install that
file. When I ran Windows Update afterwards, there was only a later
update there. If you go the manual Registry editing route, make
sure you create a DWORD value for the key above rather than a string
value.

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Earl F. Parrish