Plugins Windows Mediaplayer

[DeeDee]

I am running Windows Mediaplayer 11 in XP and I am unsuccesfully trying to
install the lyrics plug-in. Plug-ings (both Microsoft and 3rd party) are not
working & are even not displayed in the plugin list.

I have tried: reinstalling the plugin, testing different plugins, de- and
reinstalling WMP,... nothing seems to help.

Does anybody know the solution to this?

[Tim De Baets]

What plug-ins did you try? Do you get any error messages while
installing a plug-in or at WMP startup?

If you launch Regedit (Start - Run - type "regedit" - Enter), are you
able to navigate to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\UIPlugins? If the
UIPlugins key doesn't exist, create it yourself.

If UIPlugins does exist, rename the existing key to something like
UIPlugins-old, and create a new UIPlugins key.

Does installing a plug-in work now?

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk

[DeeDee]

Sorry for not responding earlier, but apparently I amalso not getting any
notifications from this site :-)

The Plug-in I am trying to install is the "LyricsPlugin", but other plugins
also don't work. And UIPlugins key was listed in the register and
re-inputting it didn't help either...

This thing is slowly driving me insane. I have tried the same plugin with
another non-microsoft mediaplayer and it works fine.

So still not working...

"Tim De Baets" wrote:

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[Tim De Baets]

There is more than one lyrics plug-in for WMP. Which specific one is
this and where did you download it?

Perhaps you are logged in with a limited user account? Go to Control
Panel - User Accounts, and make sure that your account has administrator
rights.

I still don't know what the mysterious "other plug-ins" are :p This is
important, because it could allow me to determine if the problem is
related to WMP or to the plug-ins themselves.

Try installing one of my own plug-ins, such as WMPCDText -
http://bmproductions.fixnum.org/wmpcdtext
Is the install successful, and does this show up in WMP?

[DeeDee]

Tim,

Thanks for quick responses, I really appreciate it!

I am trying to install the lyrics plugin from www.lyricsplugin.com. But no
matter which plugin I try to install it just does not work/load (it does not
pop-up in the add-on menu etc). I now even tried yours and it does not work.

I am trying to install it on a work laptop with local admin rights, so that
shouldn't be a problem.

All Plugins, including the lyrics, are working on a colleagues' laptop.
Furthermore, the lyrics plugin does work when I install on winamp.

Regards,

DeeDee

"Tim De Baets" wrote:

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[Tim De Baets]

If you go to WMP's Options - Plug-ins, isn't any plug-in listed there
(check all categories)?

Try re-registering WMP to fix a possible broken registration. Go to
Start - Run, type "regsvr32 wmp.dll" and press Enter. You should get a
message that registration was successful.

If that doesn't help, create a new user account, log in with that new
account, and check if you can see the plug-ins now. If you still can't
see them, try to reinstall the plug-ins in the new account.

[DeeDee]

Nope, still does not work. I am soon going to check if throwing the laptop
out of the window would solve the problem.

The Dll doesn't seem to excist, and de- / reinstalling WMP fix this.

This is getting frustrating.

[Tim De Baets]

Did it say that the wmp.dll file didn't exist? That file should
definitely be there in the system32 folder.

I'm afraid that I'm running out of ideas here :/ You could use System
Restore to roll back to a restore point that was hopefully taken when
the problem wasn't occurring yet.

If *that* doesn't help, then one of the last things left to try is to
reinstall Windows.

Regards

--
Tim De Baets
http://www.bm-productions.tk