win 8.1 automatic repair endless loop

LOL! Give up Tony. He is unable to admit that he is incorrect.

Cheers,

Cliff

 

It would probably more accurate to refer to them as "victims" rather
than "clients".

Cheers,

Cliff

 

I see that you're right Cliff - it'd be really hard to *not* see it. That
exchange is just crazy.

He's slipped my killfile a few times in the past but I've left him out this
time as he seemed to have mellowed. However if that bullshit is the sort of
stuff he's going to post then I'm better off not reading it.
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:06:27 +1300, wrote:

Problem fixed.
Exploring official MS help sites I found a recommendation to download
8.1 trial and reinstall using that.
I loaded it onto a usb drive and when I ran that the first thing that
happened was it triggered a disk check. When that completed my own
installation of 8.1 restarted and ran ok.

 

About WMP on XP he's not correct. I still have Win XP, Pro & Home (just
did a fresh install on one machine) they all have WMP installed.

I didn't put it there and I certainly did not DL and install it. I
don't use WMP, preferring VLC for media playback.

 

At least, a sign that intelligence does exist in this newsgroup.

 

Ahh, but did you install vanilla Windows XP or did it have one or more
service packs slipstreamed? In the latter case then WMP *is* included as it
was part of a service pack (that you'd normally have to download if you
started with just XP). ;-)
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

No, it doesn't. Sigh!

Cheers,

Cliff

 

Maybe incremental updates besides what got included with XP over the span
of XP's lifetime + included updates also in service packs.

Perhaps wikipedia recalls it better than me, it claims included with the
OS. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Player>

 

You'll never convince the dimbulbs of the actual reality. They're too
busy living in know-nothing geek fantasyland. :-\

 

Wiki is wrong. I have an XP install disc here from back when XP was
newly-minted (I haven't used it for years!) and it doesn't have WMP
included. IIRC it doesn't fully(?) support USB2 either.
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

It sounds like you got a copy of Windows XP N there, shaun ;-)
(Not likely I know, as this one surfaced in '06)

<http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...ong-with-windows-xp-n-and-how-to-put-it-right>
"What is it? Windows XP N - as in, "n" for "none", which is how much
media playback functionality this version has. It has no bundled
copy of Windows Media Player. This was the remedy that the EU
accepted to open up competition between Microsoft and other
providers of Windows applications. The Korean Federal Trade
Commission wants the same, but it wants Windows Messenger removed
too."

Still dunno about your copy, all I know WMP installs without me
asking it to, XP Pro & Home

 

Hmmm. I could have my old XP discs mixed up and this could be what I was
using (downloaded after my MS install disc failed).

Since I got to copy an MS 'all versions' copy (accepts sticker COAs as well
as bulk licencing serials) including sp2 a few years back I haven't used my
old discs. All I know is, before I got that I used to have to install sp2 to
get WMP (I have MS discs of sp2 and sp3).

So yeah, I could be wrong. I wouldn't be the first time - likely won't be
the last - despite all care taken..... ;-)

Cheers,
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

Brilliant saying/response to someone who thinks you are fault.

 

Heh! <bows> I guess I could have written 'reasonable care' to be more
accurate. <g>
--
</Shaun>

"Humans will have advanced a long, long, way when religious belief has a
cozy little classification in the DSM."
David Melville (in r.a.s.f1).

 

Only available in NZ, AFAIK, via MSDN.