Dunno what to do with this one :
F***ING WINDOWS : EVERY YEAR ITS THE SAME F........... STORY IT STARTS COMPLAINING : PLEASE REINSTALL ME PLEASE : PLEASE I'M TIRED I GOT TO BE DEFRAGED YOU GOT TOO MANY APPS INSTALLED I AM SLOWING DOWN ETC ETC ETC.
FFS
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From: [H]omer - view profile
Date: Sun 5 Oct 2003 06:22
Email: "[H]omer" <u...@ftc.gov>
Groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.configuration_manage
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Wesley VogelX wrote:
> [H]omer wrote:
>>In the process of trying to get the Lame ACM MP3 audio codec to work
>>on my system, I used the control panel applet for audio devices to
>>remove the . Now I want to get it back.
>>I have tried reinstalling everything I can think of to try to get this
>>codec back, such as WMP9, DX9, and even WM Encoder 9, all to no avail.
>>Don't tell me this is yet another scenario where the only solution is
>>a complete re-install of the OS.
> [H]omer;
> Try here:
>
http://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/amm/download/index.html
> Or open Search in IE/type: Fraunhofer MP3 codec /See what you get.
> Hope this helps. Let us know.
Well I bit the bullet and reinstalled XP (using "Repair" rather than a
fresh copy).
To my *very* pleasant surprise, all went well.
Looking at the registry, I now see what went wrong.
At some point (presumably during the removal of the XP version of the
Fhg MP3 codec (version 1.9) an entire branch of the registry got wiped out:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Software\Microsoft\Multimedia\Co mponents\Installed\codec_fhg
And no amount of reinstalling seems to restore those keys - other than a
full OS reinstall.
One thing that bugs me, apart from the obvious, is the number of people
who tell me that the Fhg MP3 codec is *not* part of Windows, and
redirect me to Fraunhofer's website.
Version 1.9 (crippled) *is* installed as part of the Windows install,
and it was *that* version I was trying to restore.
So the moral of the story is, do not use the control panel to uninstall
codecs on XP.
Lesson learned.