How to Repair Windows Media Player in Vista
Windows Media Player is a part of the Windows operating system. For this reason, you may have been dismayed to find that it is not shown on the list of installed programs in Windows Vista, leaving you without an apparent way to repair Media Player in the event of file corruption or other damage. A group of programmers has released a utility that repairs Windows Media Player by automatically re-registering all of the library files used by the program, which can resolve some types of issues. Use this utility to attempt to repair Windows Media Player in Windows Vista before reinstalling the operating system.
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Instructions
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Download the Fix WMP Utility using the link in the "Resources" section of this article. Extract the utility to the location of your choice.
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Double click "Fix WMP.exe" to launch the program.
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Click the "Run Utility" button. The mouse pointer icon will change to indicate that Windows Vista is busy as all of the DLL library files required by Windows Media Player are re-registered. This may take several minutes on some computers. When the process is complete, a message stating "Re-registered all files" will appear.
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Click "OK" to close the utility, and launch Media Player to confirm that the repair operation is successful.
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