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Title: VLC Media Player will not run in Wins 7.....
Post by: melen001 on October 10, 2013, 09:54:29 pm

I re-installed VLC MP because I was having problems, after I re-installed and try to run it now I'm get this... "Windows cannot access specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item." I ran "sfc/scannow" to see if I had any corrupt files that could be restored but still getting the warning. What should I do?????

Title: Re: VLC Media Player will not run in Wins 7.....
Post by: Shane on October 11, 2013, 02:26:33 pm

Did you go and check if that file path exists?

Shane

Title: Re: VLC Media Player will not run in Wins 7.....
Post by: melen001 on October 11, 2013, 06:46:34 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. That is exactly what the pop-up window is telling me, does the "file path" exist. Can you please tell me how do I go by doing that, "check the file path". I'm not a Geek so I would really appreciate your help. Please be very clear for English is my second language. Thank God for "spell checking".......    :wink:   ......

Title: Re: VLC Media Player will not run in Wins 7.....
Post by: Shane on October 13, 2013, 04:43:47 pm

Open computer, open local disk c: then go to the program files (x86) folder and so on and see if that file is in the location it is looking for :wink:

Shane

Title: Re: VLC Media Player will not run in Wins 7.....
Post by: NoWhereMan on October 13, 2013, 05:44:53 pm

Assuming there is no malware involved, This almost sounds like the VLC setup / install was performed without Administrator privileges.
Try Uninstalling VLC and download a new copy from
Official page for VLC media player, the Open Source video framework!
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html)
(Note: you may have to temporarily disable your virus protection AFTER you completed the download.)

Right-Click  the vlc-2.1.0-win32.exe Run as Administrator
Re-enable Virus protection after installation completes.
hth
NoWhereMan

Title: Re: VLC Media Player will not run in Wins 7.....
Post by: melen001 on October 13, 2013, 07:37:02 pm

Hello.....

Great!....... it's done and resolved. I reinstalled VLC and all is good now so thanks a million. I installed the zipped version and it's working just fine.
... Thank you......  have a good day....   :smiley:   ....