As for trouble with the Registry, CCleaner might be of some help. You
find it at
ccleaner.com
The Home Standard version, is free of charge. Basically, long as you do
not change the factory settings, it might be safe enough to run. But you
might want to go through the settings, to make sure it does what you
want, and nothing more. In the Main menu, choose Options, then Settings.
Work your way through the tabs, and it will at least give you an idea
what kind of issues the cleaner will care for.
Note that a cleaner will not repair anything. It will remove things that
seem to be outdated or left-overs, even broken. In other words, if your
MP3's do not play, the cleaner might not fix that in itself. But it
might remove a broken connection between your file type and the player.
This will leave the MP3 connection open so to speak, and you then will
be able to reconnect it with your chosen player. Broken connections, or
associations, may cause trouble to many things on your computer, since
they serve as a road map for the computer to know where to take given
info, and what to do about it. Such broken stuff might come from
uninstalling, updating or otherwise changing software on your PC. They
can even arise as a consequence of a power failure, a failed or
cancelled operation, a forced shut down of the system, or any untold
reasons.
Another software that I have been benefitting from, and which takes care
of different issues, is SpyBot Search and Destroy. One place to get that
one from, is:
ninite.com
SpyBot is an Anti-Spyware. But due to the fact that spyware includes a
number of techniques, and some of them meddle with many things on your
computer, a side-effect of SpyBot is that it might happen to clean out
things that solves technical issues. Again, the benefit of such, is that
it leaves you with a more clean PC, and makes it easier for you to
troubleshoot. Leaving factory settings usually is the best way, but it
leaves you certain control over its activity.
Both the above cleaners do work with WinEyes. They are, as most modern
software, quite mouse entensive. As a note, I just tested them this
morning when cleaning up my system, with Jaws 18 and likewise NVDA.
Clearly, WinEyes offered you the best control. Even in CCleaner's latest
version, NVDA worked only so well, and Jaws failed altogether. WinEyes
got the job done. Funny how different screen readers work, and how the
old approach sometimes is the better go.
All of this, only for your information.
David
On 2/26/2020 9:40 PM, Larry Higgins via Talk wrote:
Hey Rod, that's OK, we all have days like that. I just decided to go
for it, because since other extensions were being likewise effected, I
just deduced that it must definitely be a registry issue. Certainly a
chance worth taking, especially since I didn't figure it could do any
real damage considering that I hadn't installed anything else over the
past week.
I did uninstall and reinstall Winamp, but to no avail. I started to
realize that the registry might be an issue when I tried to change the
preference through the default app extensions option, and found that
there was nothing for .mp3 without that Winamp URL Command Handler thing.
I did download your copy of the last version of Winamp
. I've forgotten, but that might be the version I am already running.
Hmm, no it isn't mine is in the 5 range. I'll have to fix that right
away.
When it comes to WE, I think we might should discuss that in private.
If you can help me resurrect/revive this thing, it would be most
helpful. I'm afraid I've lost your address with all the issues of
late, so maybe you could send me a message so that I can get you back
in my address book.
I can give you a couple of examples of where it is letting me down,
and that is with IE11. As it is, I can get only one key to echo, well
maybe two, the period, and the space bar
. Also headers and all other browse mode functionality is gone. Very
frustrating.
OK, that is enough for the present. Hope to talk to you soon.
Larry
at 1:19 PM, Larry Higgins via Talk <[email protected]>
wrote:
thought I'd better make that correction.
On 2/24/2020 12:11 PM, Larry Higgins via Talk wrote:
Hello listers,
And I sure hope you can help me with this one.
For some reason, as of earlier this morning, Winamp wants to
treat my .mp3 files as if they are audio streams. I hear
something, or did, like"URL file handler file type," and the
files will no longer play. If I load an mp3 audio stream that
uses an m3u file, it will load that stream, just not regular mp3
files.
Please don't tell me I should move to another player, because
I'm sure that either this issue or another could arise when
using Foobar, or any other player for that matter. I stick with
it because Jeff Bishops app works so well.
I know that very soon, I'll have to give up on WE altogether,
because after recently getting my computer back from the shop,
WE seems to be falling apart before my very ears. Right now I am
in the middle of a project, and I really would like to be able
to use Winamp to play mp3 files as usual.
Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Larry
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