Sometime between the updates from WMP 9 to WMP10, WMP started acting strangely. So, I backed down to WMP 9, using system restore and it worked again. When I again allowed updates to update to WMP 10, it worked for a while, and then stopped.
Now, I cannot get it to work again, nor can I even get it installed again.
Somehow, it seems Windows no longer recognizes that WMP is a valid Windows application!
Using DirectX diagnostics, I get this:
The file qasf.dll is missing!
You should reinstall DirectX to get the latest version.
When I try to re-install WMP, I get this:
SETUP was unable to load the master information file.
Followed by:
The application could not be initialized.
These things happen even when I got to Add/Remove and try to Add/Remove Windows XP Components – specifically, WMP, but now ay components.
Have any of you experienced this, or heard of this and, if so, what is the solution, or work-around? I’m at the cusp of wiping the system and starting clean, but have so many apps and so much on the system that I would love not to have to do that, if possible.
Thank you all, for any help you can offer.
-a.