SP2 messing up installation of codecs and disabled Divx player

Geminiwave · Aug 16, 2004, 03:25 PM

Okay I installed SP2 for winXP pro. things seemed okay...but now when I install codecs or something it says "ERROR INSTALLING FILE!! FILE IS BLOCKED!" or something along those lines.

Divx player also no longer works. This (I am almost positive) has to do with SP2 putting media player 9 on(which i didnt want and i want to destroy). All of my friends who upgraded to WMP9 have had their divx players get screwed up. my divx player simply will no longer play files. Either it says that I am missing codecs or it will make the players screen scramble green and then it will crash(just the player not all of windows). This honestly sucks. I was going to delete media player but every time i try to delete it, it comes back. And then I was going to just delete SP2 but theres no option to do any such thing(I even went through MS's instructions on how to do so. didnt work)

can anyone PLEASE help me? I feel like my computer has been molested! It even changed the boot screen!!!! It just says "Microsoft Windows" now instead of "Microsoft Windows XP Professional"

grrrr...

and my boot times went up to 10 seconds.

pr0digal jenius · Aug 16, 2004, 03:34 PM

sp2 does break part of the divx installation, and the fix should be on the way

as for now you have to disable DEP

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=17862

^article^

Geminiwave · Aug 16, 2004, 04:02 PM

hmm I cant seem to get it working but im still trying at it.

but besides that, I still want to eliminate Media player 9. Its garbage. I do not like it one little bit. I accepted media player 7 because it had a few good things about it. a very few mind you but a few. Media player 9 is just nasty.

also is there a way of fixing the bootscreen or is that just perminate. I know there was a program to alter the boot screens but uh...it sorta messed things up pretty bad so i had to remove it.

Edit: It wont allow me to save the Boot.ini file. It keeps saying it either cant find the pathname or that the boot.ini file is read-only and cannot be changed. I cant even find the blurdy file to make it non read only. *grrr*

pr0digal jenius · Aug 16, 2004, 04:05 PM

bootXP (stardock makes it)

and XPLite will get rid of media player

PangingJr · Aug 16, 2004, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Geminiwave

hmm I cant seem to get it working but im still trying at it.

Edit: It wont allow me to save the Boot.ini file. It keeps saying it either cant find the pathname or that the boot.ini file is read-only and cannot be changed. I cant even find the blurdy file to make it non read only. *grrr*

to disable DEP globally ( which's not recommend by Microsoft )

you need to disable write-protection (unchecked read-only) of the BOOT.INI file 1st,

then replace the boot.ini switches " /NoExecute=OptIn " with " /NoExecute=AlwaysOff " or " /Execute "

then save the file, put back the file write-protection then reboot.

Geminiwave · Aug 16, 2004, 05:44 PM

right but the problem is that I cant FIND the file to turn OFF the write protection. Its not showing up in any searches and I've looked through all the folders in Window directory

pr0digal jenius · Aug 16, 2004, 07:08 PM

xplite has a lil button for it...i think tweak XP does too.....

xplite has a demo version that works pretty well and should do what you need

SaberZ · Aug 16, 2004, 09:07 PM

XP lite does indeed have a Protection release button. You can shave quite a bit of stuff from XP using it, as for WMP, I love it, stores my playlists correctly unlike winamp for some reason(version 3.xx) and with the right codecs plays all my videos fine to.

PangingJr · Aug 16, 2004, 09:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Geminiwave

right but the problem is that I cant FIND the file to turn OFF the write protection. Its not showing up in any searches and I've looked through all the folders in Window directory

you mean you can't find the boot.ini file?

Geminiwave · Aug 16, 2004, 11:13 PM

the demo version wont get rid of WMP...or alot of other things for that matter.

sigh...*loud sigh*

I'm deleting SP2. MS said that I wasnt meant to get it yet, that it was meant for home edition and Professional edition used by companies but not by XP pro used by home users(yes its confusing. but thats what the techy dude said)

It doesnt really do much for me...its security for the average joe. I take really good care of my PC...i hate how much slower it runs and that its screwed with stuff. Hopefully this will help get rid of WMP9 and let me put 7.1 back on.