Windows Media Player registry settings

[Guest bosshogg]

While clearing some space on my spv last night I uninstalled the Longhorn skin. This morning Media Player doesn't run anymore :)

I think the problem is that the registry still points to Longhorn as the media player skin. I changed HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows Media Player 8/Parameters/SkinDir back to Windows, but don't know what SkinFile should be set to (I don't have my sync cable here to browse the windows dir) - can anyone who hasn't skinned their media player just have a quick look and tell me what the key value should be?

ta!

[Guest jim80b]

skinfile should be wmplayer.skn

that should be it

[Guest bosshogg]

thanks jim80b, that was it :)

[Guest fde]

same just happened to me. In addition all System Message pix are missing.

Now that's what I call a clean uninstall :roll:

[Guest bosshogg]

Weird thing for me though is that I haven't used the Longhorn skin for ages, and media player was already using the default windows skin! Uninstalling the skin seemed to set the media player skin back to Longhorn...