Windows Media Player - Intermittent error when trying to play media file-Server Execution Failed

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Sorry for the late reply. Try these steps and check if it helps.

1. Right click "Computer".
2. Click "Manage".
3. Under the "System Tools" section, Double click "Local Users and Groups".
4. Click "Groups" and then right click "Administrators".
5. Now click "Add to group..." and click “Add”.
6. Click "Advanced" and then click on "Find Now".
7. Now, double click "Local Service" and then click "Ok".

 "NT Authority\Local Service" should show up in the list now.

8. Click "Ok", close Computer Management and reboot.

You may also try this:

Open a command prompt as an “Administrator” and type in the command mentioned below and press enter.

net localgroup "Administrators" "NT Authority\Local Service" /add

Also clear the Windows Media Player database. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Exit Windows Media Player.
2. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Media Player, and then click OK.
3. Select all the files in the folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.

Note: You do not have to delete the folders that are in this folder.

4. Restart Windows Media Player.

Note: Windows Media Player automatically rebuilds the database.

If this does not resolve the problem, clear the Windows Media Player database cache files. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Exit Windows Media Player.
2. Click Start, click Run, type %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft, and then click OK.
3. Select the Media Player folder, and then click Delete on the File menu.
4. Restart Windows Media Player.

Regards,

Afzal-Microsoft Support.

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If I had venture a guess, it would be that Microsoft is scared to answer.   If they confirm that they do indeed have a problem that is corrupting files then they have a huge issue on their hands.  If they stick their heads in the sand and refuse to answer, then the issue is partially defused.   I find it ironic that this is supposed to be a "media friendly" operating system, and yet this is quite realistically the SECOND time in its very short life that they've had a file corruption issue (possibly the EXACT same corruption issue).  Microsoft obviously doesn't know how to fix it, and they're deathly afraid to say so.

OR, they already got our money and now they don't care at all.

Either way looks like it's doubtful we get a straight answer or any tangible help.

I have got the same problem with  "The server {ED1D0FDF-4414-470A-A56D-CFB68623FC58} did not register with DCOM within the required timeout." on my Windows 7 Pro x64. I get it mostly with WMP Classic on both x86 and x64 versions of the player. It does not happen very often but I have got quite a few corrupted MP3 and video files because of that I guess. I am clueless how to solve the error. The possible errors could be also due to things that are installed on my computer:

1. Outpost Firewall installed
2. K-Lite Codec Pack (Standard)
3. Media Player Classic x64 or/and x86

The problem is that if I try to play the file after I get the message of server execution errors, the computer becomes non-responsive and then hangs. I do not get any logs after that except for that I have presses the reset button The previous system shutdown at ... was unexpected. Again, it does not happen every time I play the files but I will try to experiment with it a little.

here is a qote from another post that looks similar to our problem:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/w7itpromedia/thread/a962e386-d8e6-496d-9f97-754019d504d3

[quote]

I had the same problem ...

I just opened the task manager and sow "IME" program not responding

end it by task manager

and everything goes alright

Windows 7 RTM 7600 x64

...

[/quote]

tridy (Stockholm, Sweden)

STILL no response from Microsoft.  BUMP.

Bump!