Sorry for the spam, but do have some vendetta against jamer, wallow? It seems that you leap at the chance to shoot him down.

Nahh, It's just annoying, he's done this multiple times on other threads

So apparently, WMP doesn't work on my adminsitrator account, but it works on a user account setup for file sharing or when I leave my computer on while I'm at work. Any ideas?

Not sure how Vista works, but on XP you can control access to programs through the Start menu. Under Custom, check to see what you set media player is, and whether or not you are allowed access to it...

And apparently Winamp doesn't work anymore, either o_0

I use a program called "Your Uninstaller!" which lets you uninstall programs that do no appear in the add/remove programs list. It also scans the entire disk for unused registry entries and files and completely removes all traces of the program. Their website should have a trail version so I'd suggest trying that.

If all else fails use Windows Media Classic. It's great.

I've gotten everything to work by default in VLC, with the exception of one movie and commodore SID files.

I'm expecting that if WMP and Winamp don't work that other media players are going to behave similarly. Also, note that this is only an issue with a single user account on the machine; if someone knew what registry entries or whatever to copy from one use to the other...

Here's a really odd development: After a view a video in Media Player Classic, WMP will start propperly and I can view any video with WMP. It almost seems like some service isn't being started by WMP or something similar.

WMP still doesn't work on my computer. I said F it and am using VLC media player to run everything. I <3 it.