media player question

chevyman · 8th August 2003

Microsoft has finally produced a fix to stop media player 7.1 from running script and opening my browser.

The article is Q320944

However it must be done in the registry. Can somone with some registry experience walk me through this.

I tried to do it like the article states by copying the entry to my computer and importing it into my registry but i get the message:

"The specified file is not a registry script."

I did save it as a .reg file.

Fred

Newt · 8th August 2003

You must copy the exact, entire piece into the blank text file (no word processor but notepad or similar) including the blank line at the end. I just tried it and it did place the proper entry in my registry.

Quote:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences]
"PlayerScriptCommandsEnabled"=dword:00000000

and there MUST be a blank line after the dword:00000000 line.

If for some reason it still fails, you can always run the registry editor and make the entry (or change if you aready have the key) by hand. If you need specifics on that, say your OS version.

chevyman · 12th August 2003

Thanks for your reply but no luck.

If you would be so kind as to walk me through it.

I am running windows 98 and media player 7.1

I can open regedit and get to the preferances part with no problem but i need to know how to make the entry from there.

If you can start from where i right click on the right side of the screen. i do not know what kind of entry to make.

Fred