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Media Player permission problems

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by wbs_aus

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In Windows XP, media player gives an error when streaming video and the user has "power user" rights but it doesn't happen when logged in as administrator.

The error is 80070005: The multimedia content is on a computer that requires special permission access.
The article it refers to (Q234292) only refers to syntax errors whereas I am clicking on a internet link. BTW, this works fine on computers running Windows 95 or 98.
Also, running as Administrator is not an option.

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by ptchtech

add full permission for the desired security group for the associated widows media registry keys and wmplayer.exe and it should work - It worked for me

by wbs_aus

Very good try. I changed all permissions suugested to the registry. I thought this would work but I still get the same error. Because I am in a Workgroup (91 separate ones, actually) I can't change permissions on wmplayer.exe explicitly but all registry keys mentioned in Current User and Local Machine referring to Windows Media were made full give full control. I don't think I missed anything. (Yes, I have reboot several times).

Thanks,
Wayne

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