All music files refuse to play: mp3, wma, aac etc I use vista and windows 7. Both decided to deny me listening to music. I remember removing an antivirus (avast) from my vista. The next time everything stopped working. My window 7 is affected also. Thanks Aaron!
Sounds as though Media Player was damaged by removing Avast. There really isn't an easy to reinstall Media Player in Vista or Windows 7. Try something like VideoLan from http://www.videolan.org instead.
I went to the mountains and am back to the land of the living. I tried the link and did a download. Wow!! I feel good. Problem solved. I can now at my private time tune my volume to max.
Some say that files are never deleted from the computer but just stored into a free heap, stack or whatever mode of storing data you have in mind and that they can be recovered using a investigation type software.
While that can be good news for those who had accidentally deleted files or had their drives corrupted, that can mean disaster for those who were up to no good.
In a way that's true. Files are simply marked deleted but not removed from the disk. They are then overwritten next time that space is needed. Thats how undelete utilities work. But eventually, they will be over written...
It likely was not related to Avast! itself. More likely due to a secondary infection or other problem with the system. Removal of Avast! was probably just the catalyst. Often seems to happen with many different AV packages.
Corrupt file, maybe
Posted - Jun 11 2011 : 07:30:44 AM
