"Play All"

Sham wrote:

> When playing mp3's or any sound file from a music folder,
> there is the option under MUSIC TASKS "Play All", this
> function doesnt work any more. Can anyone
> please help,

1.
I had tested "Play All" in "Music Tasks" folder on my XP SP1(ja).

By using Regmon(http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/regmon.shtml),
it seemes that when pressing "Play All", Windows system is reading
registry key below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{72eb61e 0-8672-4303-9175-f2e4c68b2e7c}

I had disabled the key above by adding semicolon (;{72eb61e0-8672~) ,
and "Play All" function also been disabled.

# But there was not "hourglass flash" which has been reported
# in some "Play All in Music Tasks disfunction" case.

Next, by runnning "regsvr32 /i shell32.dll" at "start" > "run",
"Play All" function was enabled again.

2.
On Japanese WinFAQ BBS(most famous BBS Board of Windows trouble
shooting, in Japan), there is an article that SONY's PC Support
suggested "regsvr32 /i shell32.dll" and "reassociate filetypes
to WMP", in the case of "Play All in Video Tasks disfunction",
and it worked fine.
http://winfaq.cool.ne.jp/logs/2k/0180.html#124660

3.
There is another article on japanese BBS Board that suggests
shell32.dll is the key of this problem.
http://pc2.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/win/1063897318/608