Media Player Install-ERROR 80070005

[McIntyre]

I was using Windows XP SP2 with Windows Media Player 10. Yesterday I thought to upgrade WMP to v11. I downloaded the setup from web and tried to install but it failed with “80070005 General access denied error”. I don’t know which Access it is talking about. If it is about system Admin privileges than am already logged as an Administrator of this system.

Anyways, as I wasted enough time struggling with this error, I thought to go back to WMP 10 which was working fine since a year without any problem. Surprisingly this system now wont allow me to revert back. It says:

“This application has failed to start because MFPlat.DLL was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.”

Somebody please help.

[Tanvir]

As the error says “MFPlat.DLL was not found”, did you checked whether it is available or not on your system? Please check it. It should be under system32 folders. c:\windows\system32\mfplat.dll.

Alternatively you can just restore your system to any previous restore point where you were using Windows Media Player 10.

[McIntyre]

Hello Tanvir. Thanks a lot for your reply. I searched that file in c:\windows\system32\ but dint found any named “mfplat.dll”. BTW, your second suggestion worked fine. I simply restore my computer 1 month back and everything seems to be working fine.