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I'll try to make this short.
I installed Vista some time ago, and I never tried any third-party codecs installation programs, so after I installed Vista all the codecs in the OS were the default ones. Then, eventually (and because I was experiencing strange sound-related issues in Sacred 2, and because someone suggested me to try that) I tried a codec pack named Vista Codec Package (simply), the program's icon is a shark with a pair sunglass if it tells anything to you guys (it seems to be a popular download anyway). So after some time I decided to uninstall it (because I was still having the same sound-related issues, so I thought that the new codecs didn't helped), and it uninstalled without problems.
Then, more recently, and after experiencing the same sound-related problems (and after posting about it on several occasions) I had been told that the "best" codec package to try is the K-Lite Codec Pack. So I tried that, and I installed one of the pre-set options, since I didn't know what I was doing, so I let the program do it, it installed automatically and all was working fine after the installation. However it would be interesting to note that just before the installation finished the installer popped-up a warning window in which it said that it detected broken codecs, and that to fix them it was suggested to delete their respective registry entries, so I accepted, and it deleted two such entries. But I still got the sound problem I referred to earlier, so I again decided to uninstall that K-Lite pack, and so it uninstalled without problems.
After I uninstalled it I decided to run CCleaner's registry cleaning tool, and it detected more than sixty erroneous entries, which I let CCleaner fix. Then I restarted the system. After that I went on Google and made some research about programs which would be able (if any) to tell me if my default Vista codecs were alright to start with right after I installed the OS itself and before installing any third party codecs packs. I found no such programs capable of telling me just that under the conditions I wanted, but I did find a program capable of telling me if the current codecs I have (if they're default to the OS or not is not detected by the program, and that's what I wanted to know, but I least it's capable of telling me about the currently present ones, default or not) are working fine or are "broken".
That program is Codec Sniper, but it's supposedly old, and was designed to detect codecs and their status under Windows XP, so I don't know if the information given under Vista is actually relevant and precise. But anyway, I tried it, and it shows that a good number of my codecs are "broken" (what "broken" codecs mean exactly I'm not sure, can they be "fixed"? I don't know, do I just have to re-register them? I don't know, it just says it's "broken"). That's the result I have when I run it right now.
Now I have questions:
1) Is the information given by that old program actually good?
2) Is there a way to test those exact codecs and know for sure if they're indeed "broken"?
3) If they are indeed broken, can they be repaired? And if so, how?
Thanks.
I installed Vista some time ago, and I never tried any third-party codecs installation programs, so after I installed Vista all the codecs in the OS were the default ones. Then, eventually (and because I was experiencing strange sound-related issues in Sacred 2, and because someone suggested me to try that) I tried a codec pack named Vista Codec Package (simply), the program's icon is a shark with a pair sunglass if it tells anything to you guys (it seems to be a popular download anyway). So after some time I decided to uninstall it (because I was still having the same sound-related issues, so I thought that the new codecs didn't helped), and it uninstalled without problems.
Then, more recently, and after experiencing the same sound-related problems (and after posting about it on several occasions) I had been told that the "best" codec package to try is the K-Lite Codec Pack. So I tried that, and I installed one of the pre-set options, since I didn't know what I was doing, so I let the program do it, it installed automatically and all was working fine after the installation. However it would be interesting to note that just before the installation finished the installer popped-up a warning window in which it said that it detected broken codecs, and that to fix them it was suggested to delete their respective registry entries, so I accepted, and it deleted two such entries. But I still got the sound problem I referred to earlier, so I again decided to uninstall that K-Lite pack, and so it uninstalled without problems.
After I uninstalled it I decided to run CCleaner's registry cleaning tool, and it detected more than sixty erroneous entries, which I let CCleaner fix. Then I restarted the system. After that I went on Google and made some research about programs which would be able (if any) to tell me if my default Vista codecs were alright to start with right after I installed the OS itself and before installing any third party codecs packs. I found no such programs capable of telling me just that under the conditions I wanted, but I did find a program capable of telling me if the current codecs I have (if they're default to the OS or not is not detected by the program, and that's what I wanted to know, but I least it's capable of telling me about the currently present ones, default or not) are working fine or are "broken".
That program is Codec Sniper, but it's supposedly old, and was designed to detect codecs and their status under Windows XP, so I don't know if the information given under Vista is actually relevant and precise. But anyway, I tried it, and it shows that a good number of my codecs are "broken" (what "broken" codecs mean exactly I'm not sure, can they be "fixed"? I don't know, do I just have to re-register them? I don't know, it just says it's "broken"). That's the result I have when I run it right now.
Now I have questions:
1) Is the information given by that old program actually good?
2) Is there a way to test those exact codecs and know for sure if they're indeed "broken"?
3) If they are indeed broken, can they be repaired? And if so, how?
Thanks.
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