Recently, I reformatted and have tried to reinstall Windows Media Player 9, my guess is that it never completely installed, because it then brought up Windows Media Player 10 and installed what seems to be with a clean installation but recently (never happened before) everytime I play an avi file no matter what it is Windows Media Player crashes.

I use Ace Mega Codec Packs and I have it installed on my other hard drive as well, it works great, but on this hard drive it crashes, I opened event viewer and looked at the errors this is one of them:

Faulting application wmplayer.exe, version 10.0.0.3646, faulting module unknown, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0xd8e5b14c.

For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.

what can I do, I've tried reinstalling WMP 10 and rolling back to WMP 9 but it will always try to update to 10 and said that WMP 9 can not be installed each time.

New developments, are apparently there was an option of tiny toolbar enabled I disabled it this time which I didn't last time, and now it seems to be working well but the tiny toolbar is wmp 9 looking while I have wmp 10 installed.

You can always reload WMP 10 on top of itself to fix any errors within.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...&qstechnology=

There were also WMP 10 security patches issued yesterday at Windows Update.

I think it may have had something to do with my codecs, but strangely enough, I use the same exact codecs on my other hd and it works perfectly, so I'm not sure what's going on, what codec pack do you use and what would you recommend, if possible I'd like to have encoding and decoding capabilities.

I use this:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/XP_Codec_Pack.htm

Although today I saw this highly recommended:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/...Codec_Pack.htm

More here:

http://www.free-codecs.com/Codec_Packs.htm

WMP 10 still has WMP 9 tiny toolbar I've unistalled and installed it at least 20 times.

okay I seemed to have fixed I did a system restore back to when I had installed wmp 10 the very first time and it seems to have fixed all the problems, except the icon for wmp 10 is the one from wmp9 does this have anything to do with me rolling back the windows media runtime format?

and I have that codec, along with K-Lite Full, and some other one and then Ace Mega. (all not installed)

I looked at the icon of WMP 10 on my other hard drive and it looks like WMP 10 while on this hard drive it looks like WMP 9, I've tried a system restore, unistalled and reinstalled with and without the player going, and with and without tiny toolbar activated, not works if it isn't one thing it's another I guess as long as it works I can't complain but I'd still like to figure out what's going on with wmp.

You could try Tweak UI from Microsoft

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/d...powertoys.mspx

The last tab is Repair. There is an option there to Rebuild Icons.

ok I'll try it, I used to have Tweak UI but I can't find it, do you know how to check what version of Windows Media Format Runtime you have, because I think that may have something to do with why wmp10's files and icons look like wmp 9s.