FileNotFoundException when trying to watch movie

[trashbarg]

I had the problem that whenever I tried to watch a movie, nothing at all happened when I clicked it. the error logs showed a FileNotFoundException which was not really helpful while debugging this.

after fiddling around for hours, I finally found the culprit: This seems to happen when the 'DCOM Server Process Launcher' windows service is not running.

thought I post it here, hopefully helps some people save the trouble.

[!pcteam]

hi,

your post is useful,

if someone use Windows XP Service Pack 2, the problem most likely lies with the DCOM Server Process Launcher. To resolve this, follow these steps:

a) Click the 'Start' button, and select 'Run' from the menu. In the 'Run' dialog that pops up, type:

sc config dcomlaunch start= auto

(Note that there is a space before 'auto', and no space betwee the 'start' and '=')

and click 'Ok'. Then type:

sc start dcomlaunch

and click 'Ok'.

good luck.