Install failure and other problems with WMP 9
Joe Woodbury
install informed me that there was an error in the installation, but
did not specify what that error was. I attempted a second install as
instructed with the same result.
The player appeared to work fine until I noticed my system was bogging
down. When I examined the CPU utilization in Task Manager I was
surprised to see it in the 50-60% range. By comparison WMP 8 runs
close to 0% utilization.
These two problems may or may not be coincidental and I could find
nothing in the Microsoft Knowledge Base to help me.
I have restored my system to WMP 8 and will continue with that for the
time being.
(Note: I'm looking for help, or at least to inform Microsoft that WMP
9 may have some problems, not someone to tell me to switch to brand X
media player. I've tried most of them and like WMP the best, thank you
very much. Moreover, if something is causing problems with WMP 9, I
want to fix it, not stick my head in the sand.)
zachd [ms]
The installer logs most everything to c:\windows\wmsetup.log... if you look
for "ERROR:" in that file, that may illuminate things a tiny bit.
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"Joe Woodbury" <joewo...@mail.com> wrote in message
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Joe Woodbury
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WMC_CopyFile: Could not find file version for
'C:\WINDOWS\INF\drm.inf'. This file will be overwritten.
Copied file 'drm.inf' to 'C:\WINDOWS\INF\'.
...
ERROR: INF parser failed on: 'c:\temp\IXP000.TMP\drm.inf'. Result:
0x80004005.
Package install complete. Last result 0x80004005.
ERROR: Package 'DRM'. Result: 0x80004005.
...
Setup complete. Result: '0x80004005'.
zachd [ms]
Thanks - things look fine.
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Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
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"Bob Evans" <eva...@snip.net> wrote in message
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> I've got a "can't install error"-reinstall. Deleted most
> everything in the temp directory and the install log. No
> help. I attached the log for review.
>
> In use everthing seems to be working fine so far!
Luke Jackson
error message and realised through looking at the log
that setup could not access my shared documents folder
because i had changed the access permissions on it to
prevent virii copying themselves onto my computer over
the network. i changed the access permissions and setup
completed without any problems, however i am experiencing
the same high cpu usage that you mention...
therefore perhaps you should check that you are running
setup as administrator and that as administrator you have
read/write access to all relevant folders.
that's my 2 cents, for what they're worth
luke
>-----Original Message-----
>I found the following lines:
>
>....
>
> WMC_CopyFile: Could not find file version for
>'C:\WINDOWS\INF\drm.inf'. This file will be overwritten.
> Copied file 'drm.inf' to 'C:\WINDOWS\INF\'.
>
>....
>
>ERROR: INF parser failed
on: 'c:\temp\IXP000.TMP\drm.inf'. Result:
>0x80004005.
> Package install complete. Last result 0x80004005.
>ERROR: Package 'DRM'. Result: 0x80004005.
>
>....
>
>Setup complete. Result: '0x80004005'.
>.
>