tip: satellite tv for PC may cause WMP problems (wmp may not start)

This is all personal investigation and personal opinion. You can easily
verify these findings yourself, and this data is provided in good faith.

It appears that Satellite TV for PC is installing a private copy of wmp.dll
version 10.0.0.3802 to--
C:\Program Files\SatelliteTVforPC\2006\Elite\wmp.dll

Since Vista uses Windows Media Player version 11, you will then find that
Windows Media Player will crash or simply not start when you attempt to run
it. To undo this damage, you would at the least want to:
* Go to the Start menu
* Type "cmd.exe" in the search text bar there
* Right-click on CMD in the results list and select Run As Administrator
* Then in that command prompt type "regsvr32 wmp.dll"
You should then be able to run the player again.

This is a source of a top failure for the Vista Windows Media Player (also
identified as crash bucket number 346645088 ), which is why I felt it
merited an extra heads-up. Thanks to Vlad for letting me debug his box
(after which I bought a copy of the software myself to in order to
double-check my findings).

Thanks,
-Zach
--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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