Sometimes users encounter a problem when windows media player does not work, start global searches problem solving. There are a lot of tips, but there are only a few really working ones.
Today I will show you 3 easy ways to get the media player working in normal mode, as it was originally. And as a bonus, at the end of the article, you can watch a video tutorial in which a practical example shows how to perform all the necessary actions.
Introduction
If you read on, it means that you no longer run the standard windows media player that you have always used, or maybe you are just a curious user who wants to be armed with knowledge just in case.
Therefore, before proceeding to solve the problem, I will tell you a little about the reasons why people face this problem. After all, the majority starts screaming that they say they caught the virus, yes, of course, this happens, but very rarely. Basically, a failure occurs in the operating system and the media player has data libraries or startup keys in the registry. The situation is not very pleasant, but easily solved.
Dear readers, the main thing is not to rush, do everything in order. You don't have to jump right away. last option, because the problems are different and only by applying all the available steps you can restore the work of your windows media playera. Let's get down to business.
Restart media components
The easiest way to solve the problem with a non-working player is, let's say, rebooting it, for this you need to perform a number of simple steps.
Go to the "Start" menu and select the "Control Panel" section
Now we are looking for the section "Programs and Features / Uninstall or change programs", go:
Go to the "Turn Windows features on or off" section
We are waiting for a few seconds to load and we see a small window in front of us in which we need to find the line “Components for working with multimedia”, our task is to uncheck this line and apply the settings. Be careful, you will be prompted to restart your computer, this must be done.
After you have applied the new settings and restarted the computer, just go back to this menu again and put the checkmark in place that you unchecked, after that we try to start windows media player. If the problem persists, then do not despair, just go to next method and everything will surely work out.
Re-registration of system libraries
The process is quite complicated from the technical side, but in practice it is very easy to perform and thousands of users use their player in normal mode in a minute, I wish you good luck. Our task is to bring order to system libraries ah, for this we just click on the "Start" menu and right in the search bar we write the command: regsvr32 jscript.dll
Then we enter two more commands:
- regsvr32 vbscript.dll
- regsvr32 wmp.dll
It turned out three commands that you applied in turn, the main thing is not to miss more than one, just registered, applied and the same thing with the next and the next. And when finished, we try to turn on our not working windows media player.
As a result? Problem solved? I think that after that almost all users are happy with the player without problems, but if you are still suffering, because you have some kind of special problem, then it's time to move on to the "heavy artillery".
Automatic Media Player Recovery
At this stage, everything is incredibly simple, our task is to go to the official website Microsoft support and find there free utility, which should automatically test a number of problem cases related to the windows media player and immediately fix them.
Agree, this is very cool and incredibly simple, the main thing is that it helps. And to do this, we take action.
And now download the same program on your computer:
After you have downloaded the utility, just run it and follow the clear instructions:
For those who still doubt their abilities a little or are worried that they will make a mistake. I have already foreseen this and prepared it for you detailed video from practical examples, where I myself do every step in front of your eyes. It remains only to watch and repeat on your computer. Enjoy watching.
Watch video: Windows Media Player not working, there is a solution!
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Most of the programs on your computer require many subroutines and drivers that run a complex system of workflows to run.
Failure at any stage of the execution of these leads to the fact that the program does not start, about which the user is notified by a special notification.
Such notifications are different depending on the reasons that caused the failure, for example, in this material we will look at what an error means when executing a server application.
Content:
How is it manifested?
This problem occurs at the stage of opening certain files, but when launching programs, it occurs quite rarely.
Moreover, the file format, often, does not matter - it can be either a picture, or music or a video file.
The prevalence of this problem is quite high and on some computers it may occur more or less regularly.
What appearance has such an error and how to find out about its occurrence?
When you double-click on a particular file to open or run it, nothing happens.
After a few seconds, a small window with the traditional Windows design appears, in which it is written about problems with the execution of the server application and the address of the file that the computer could not open.
This window can be closed by clicking on the cross in the right upper corner, or the OK button in the window itself - regardless of this, the file will not start.
Sometimes the window appears in the background, at other times some initial startup symptoms appear on the screen, but after closing the error message they disappear.
Such a problem can occur both simultaneously for several files (of different or the same type), and for one - and this problem will not be eliminated by itself.
Tip! It is extremely rare that when a file is restarted after such a notification, it still happens. This is due to the fact that sometimes the system gives a temporary failure or makes an error that is mistakenly recognized as a failure of the application - server. But in most cases this is not to be expected.
An interesting feature This error is that although it can occur when opening files of any type, most often it can still be observed when starting a video.
And it is for those users who do not have any functional video player installed, and who use the standard one, the parameters and capabilities of which leave much to be desired.
What's happening?
What kind of processes occur on the computer when the file is launched, and what kind of failure at what stage and of what nature can lead to such a notification?
There are several reasons for this problem:
1 Incorrect work, which cannot play some types of videos for one reason or another, including the one indicated in the notification in question;
2 The activities of viruses can lead to the same result by blocking some workflows on your device;
3 A conflict with a previously installed program may lead to such consequences;
4 Outdated drivers, codecs or for of this type files.
FROM technical point view, the appearance of such a notification means that the firmware responsible for starting given file, cannot receive a response from the server application, which is also responsible for starting.
Cause Search Algorithm
In order to fix the problem in your device, you must first accurately install it.
It's not so easy, because there can be many reasons, but d To find the most probable one, you can follow this algorithm:
- Run a deep or full system virus scan- if any virus is found in the system, then most likely it is in it. If the problem occurs only when opening one specific file, then it itself may be infected with a virus;
- See if the problem occurs after installing any program. This indicates a conflict between the application and the file. This is especially noticeable if all files of this type have ceased to open;
- When you are sure that the updates and the program were installed in Lately, and no viruses were found, then check for updates for your drivers and codecs, designed to open files of this type.
Sometimes the reasons may be unexpected errors and failures in the system. They are usually one-time and disappear on their own. But if this does not happen, then you can eliminate them using the command line.
Problem Solving Algorithm
If the problem occurs when starting a video, while other types of files open normally, and the video format is not one of the most common, then it can be argued that the problem is in the player operating system.
The simplest and convenient way is to download some other functional player, for example, K-Lite.
You will spend only a few seconds downloading and installing, but now you will be able to run files of almost all video formats normally.
Other programs
If the problem is not in the video file or occurs, including in files of other formats, then you need to run an antivirus scan, as mentioned above.
Threats found as a result of such a scan must be removed– treatment and placing them in quarantine usually does not give results.
To update drivers, do the following:
1 Follow the path Control Panel\Hardware and Sound\Device Manager and open this application (you can press the button Start and print "Device Manager"
2 In the opened window with the list of devices, find the section Video adapters and click on the arrow to the left of this word in order to expand the list of devices responsible for video playback on this PC;
3 Find the equipment you usually use hover over it and click right click mice;
4 In the drop-down menu that expands after such actions, there is an item Update Driver- click on it;
5 A window will open asking about how exactly you want to search for the necessary notifications - select automatic search;
6 Wait while searching;
Quite often, for many users, on the monitor screen, when performing some operations to open files, the message “An error occurred while executing the server application” may appear. Let's try to consider several situations and understand what it is and how to get rid of such a scourge.
What is "error while executing server application"?
Among all the situations that lead to this type of problem, the most common problem is media playback. In this case, most often the error during server execution appears when trying to view the video.
As is known, standard Windows media player is far from ideal and does not always work correctly as a multimedia tool installed in the system by default. In addition, a situation of another kind may arise. This may be due, for example, to programs like "1C", installing MS Link Server 2013, etc. Only in this case the user receives a message like "Error while executing the command".
For obvious reasons and because of the complexity of the work latest programs, we will not consider them, but focus on the components responsible for the correct opening of multimedia files.
Viruses and System Restore
If the user is getting a message that a server application execution error has occurred, the first thing to do is to run a check computer system for viruses (some malware can lead to such consequences).
If the check fails even when using an independent portable antivirus with fresh databases, it is worth looking at exactly when the error appeared for the first time, and then trying to roll back the system to initial state using recovery from any previous situation, checkpoint. It may very well be that this approach will help (especially if you have recently installed updates related to multimedia).
Problems with drivers, codecs and the DirectX platform
On the other hand, neither viruses nor updates may have anything to do with it. If suddenly the system reports that an error of this type occurred during the operation, it is very likely that, for example, the video accelerator drivers need to be updated or the codecs and decoders used in some video file have more high version than those installed on this computer.
As already clear, these components just need to be updated. For video cards, you can use the Task Manager, download the file with the latest driver version from the manufacturer's official website manually or update it using specialized utilities for automatic search and update.
The same applies to the pack of codec and decoders. It's good to find the latest distribution of the same K-Lite package today codec-pack on the Internet does not work. The only thing to pay attention to is mandatory check antivirus software if it was not downloaded from an official source.
Often the problem, when an error occurs when executing a server application, may also be due to the presence of an outdated DirectX versions. There is nothing easier than going to the official Microsoft website, downloading the latest release of DirectX from there and reinstalling all its components.
The simplest commands for troubleshooting
If the above methods do not help, and the error occurs again and again when executing the server application, you will have to use command line. You can call it from standard menu"Run" by typing in the cmd field.
After a black window opens like the old one DOS systems, you need to sequentially enter two commands regsvr32 jscript.dll and regsvr32 vbscript.dll, after each of them pressing the enter key (Enter).
This will require a system reboot. True, in some cases this may not give desired result. Then you need to enter additional command sfc /scannow. In theory, in combination with the previous two, it should save the user from further errors and failures.
Problems with Windows Media Player
Now a few words about "native" Windows player. As a rule, the error when executing the server application appears in it. And that doesn't even apply to viewing. streaming video online, and even the usual opening of a video file.
The simplest solution would be to install any other player, let's say, VLC Media player or something like that. If the desired file opens with such a player without problems, then the problem is really in the Media Player. You can refuse it.
But if you are already an adherent of this program and do not want to change your preferences in any way, you can apply one more radical method. Not to mention updating the player, you will have to turn to installed components Windows.
To do this, you need to use the Programs and Features section in the Control Panel (in older OSes, this is the Add/Remove Programs section), where there is special menu enabling and disabling system components. In the list of installed software we find Windows Media Player and uncheck the box next to it. We reboot the system, after which we again go to the same section and return the checkmark to its place. Reboot required again.
With a very high degree of probability it can be argued that given error will be eliminated, although, in principle, no one can say for sure how exactly disabling and re-enabling the "native" player affects the correctness of its work. It may very well be that the developers themselves are not aware of this.
Conclusion
So we examined the most likely situations for the appearance of errors in the execution of the server application, and indicated the main methods for correcting them. However, if an error occurred while executing the server application, these are far from all methods, because sometimes in the event of failures in the “OS” itself, you may need to boot from installation disk or flash drives, updating other components, etc. We have given only the simplest options.
