WMC on Vista but can't see video on my admin profile but other admin profile works fine

I have attached an earlier thread (see below) regarding this problem but I
have since discovered that although sometimes I can get WMC or Windows Media
Player to work (view video not just hear audio) on my profile (set as Admin)
it works fine when I switch to my wife's profile (also Admin) without
rebooting, however if I switch back to my profile neither WMC nor WMP will
show video but as soon as I go to her profile both work fine. Any help is
greatly appreciated





I just tried that and I still have the same problem. I did notice that I
also can't view .wmv files in Windows Media Player. Could it be a codec
issue?

 

Apparently there are differences in one of the following between your User
settings and your wifes.
Display
MC
Services
Codec setting default for MC

 

any ideas on where to look?
Thanks

 

I have attached an earlier thread (see below) regarding this problem but I
have since discovered that although sometimes I can get WMC or Windows Media
Player to work (view video not just hear audio) on my profile (set as Admin)
it works fine when I switch to my wife's profile (also Admin) without
rebooting, however if I switch back to my profile neither WMC nor WMP will
show video but as soon as I go to her profile both work fine. Any help is
greatly appreciated.....


What about making a new profile (user) ?

 

I am sorry if it was not clear that you should at both you and your wife's
settings for each of the items in the list I provided.
For example compare you MC(Media Center) TV settings

 

Sorry to be ignorant but where can I check those settings?

 

Start MC go down to till you see Settings on the left the go left to
settings and click on it check the TV settings.

 

I can see those settings but I don't see where it allows me to check the
following " Apparently there are differences in one of the following between
your
It seems very strange to me that I can't view any video (makes now
difference if it is live or recorded) regardless of the source (email
attachment, TV, DVD etc) yet on the same machine my wifes desktop has no
problems.

I appreciate all advice given.
Thanks

 

Ok if you found no differences between you and your wife's Media Center
settings.
Then I suggest that you then check for differences between you and your
Wife's display settings using display properties.
And if they are the same then check for differences in your codec/decoder
settings using the following utility.

http://mediacenterexpert.blogspot.com/2006/07/vista-media-center-decoder-utility.html

 

Everything appears to be the same? I can't figure this one out!