Windows 10: Windows Media Player not working after security update KB4550922 installed through SCCM...

Hi team,

I am working as SCCM administrator in one company where desktops and laptops are running with Windows 10 1803 Enterprise OS.

This OS also updated with March 2020 cumulative update and Serving stack updates in SCCM 1902 OSD WIM image.


As per my job responsibility, every month i am doing this schedule updates for Windows 10 1803 Enterprise OS in SCCM 1902 OSD.

In the month of April 2020 once i added the KB4550922 patch in WIM image and installed the same update WIM in test system through OSD task sequence, i am see that the Window Media Player not working.

Whenever running the App, there is no window open and checked from task manger that within 1 second it getting stopped.


I could not able to find any error logs in the event viewer related with application error.

also i tried multiple troubleshooting like disable and enable Media feature from control panel turn on or off windows features options.

that also not help.

also tried to use troubleshooting option for Windows media player settings and library and DVD to find out whether any error showing or not.

but that also not help.


To overcome on this issue, i have used another Windows 10 WIM image file where schedule updated installed till February 2020 through SCCM offline service without doing any further schedule update.

and i used this WIM in SCCM task sequence and installed the same in test system and found that Windows medial player is working fine.


Checked from this below article and found that April 2020 month patch having Fix and quality improvement for Windows Media also. But still getting problem in my workstation environment.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-in/help/4550922/windows-10-update-kb4550922


One thing i need to update here that if we deploy and install the April 2020 security update on Windows 10 running system, then there is no problem for Windows medial player. it is working fine. only the problem after schedule update happening from SCCM 1902 OSD offline servicing.

I have checked Offline servicing log that there is not error message and it showing "update binary was successfully updated in the mounted image"


As i could not able to identify what actually the problem here so need your valuable support to rectify this problem urgently.


thanks


Subrata

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http://support.microsoft.com/KB/243621

that covers up to version 10... let me see if its diffrent for the newer versions


EDit:

here is how to clear the frequent list.
http://www.blogsdna.com/4086/how-to...edia-player-12-frequent-list-in-windows-7.htm

and here is how to clear the history
http://www.downloadatoz.com/essenti...ar-the-windows-media-player-12-history_g.html

and from the last link is the same error where you can just disable it too =)