What you're seeing means that some 3rd party software - presumably one of
the ones you noted - has totally misregistered itself and needs to be
removed. That other software is saying that it can play back content it
can't.

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Now Playing: "Jack Your Body (home made mix)" by "Steve Hurley" in WMP10.
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"acem77" <acem77@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> another hint would be all audio files are being treated as video files in
> media player 6.4, media player 10, media player classic.
> midi, wav, mp3.
> at 1st they all search for some codec then some times they will play the
> file.
>
> winamp works perfect with audio files on the pc with problems.
>
> on the xp pc that has problems playing audio files.
> when using media player 6.4 under properties - advanced
> these filters in use are listed.
> -cirrus logic usb-dvr2 splitter
> -default directsound device
> -mpeg audio decoder
> -nero video decoder
>
> on the xp pc that has no problems playing audio files.
> when using media player 6.4 under properties - advanced
> these filters in use are listed.
> -default directsound device
>
> i have soo much stuff on this pc i hope i can save it from a reinstall..
> i think i have this problem on my last fullback...