Downloader.WinTrim hijacked me.. now Windows Media Player won't start!

[GoodTimes2005]

Since being infected with Downloader.WinTrim and then cleaning that up and also all of the associated spyware... I am unable to run Windows Media Player 9. I double click the icon and it simply makes an error chime sound however nothing comes on the screen. I am running Windows XP Home.

Also I was having problem installing this game. I was told to copy my shell.dll file from my C:\WINDOWS folder to my C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 folder and this allowed me to install the game. I am guessing it may be related to the Window Media Player 9 issue I am having.

So basically it will not open up... I'm guessing that I might be missing a file...

Any ideas?

 

[smah]

Open a command prompt and type: sfc /scannow
Be sure to have your XP cd in the drive.

 

[GoodTimes2005]

Thanks for the tip, but it didn't help... I keep getting the error beep when I start up Windows Media Player 9... nothing comes up on the screen... not even an error message to tell me what the problem is.

 

[AnalogAnomaly]

like he said, run system file checker, also removing then reinstalling windows media player from the xp cd may help if system file checker fails. i have, at times, gotten away with just copying the executable from one machine to another (not the best solution mind you, i do reccoment uninstall and reinstall of the media player)