Plugin disables itself

Hi,

I keep having problems with the Windows Media Player plug-in : It keeps disabling itself, without notifying me.

Is there some way for WMP to bring up a message box on startup to notify me that the audio scrobbler plug-in is disabled?

Is there some kind of script/program/reg hack/thing I can run/do to ensure that the plug in is enabled on startup?

Thanks.

(WinXP SP2, WMP 10, Audioscrobbler v1.1.10, I also use FooBar)

Yes, I noticed it was related to WMP crashes too, but now it seems to be disabling itself without any crashes. (When WMP crashes, it actually comes up with a dialog next time saying "WMP has crashed and has disabled all plug ins", so then I actually know to re-enable it, but now it seems to keep disabling the plug in without letting me know.)

I have a problem whereby WMP crashes, it's being doing it lately while i've been ripping cd's to the pc, but it seems to be getting more frequent. I have to use ctrl+alt+delete to get out of WMP then when i open it up again all plug-ins are disabled, i've just clicked on more info to see why this keeps happening and i got this:

C00D0FD6: Damaged or incompatible plug-in
Windows Media Player was not closed properly. A damaged or incompatible plug-in might have caused the problem to occur. As a precaution, all optional plug-ins have been disabled.

If you enable optional plug-ins and the Player continues to close unexpectedly, it is recommended that you identify the damaged or incompatible plug-in and remove it.

To troubleshoot plug-ins (basic)
On the Tools menu, point to Plug-ins, and then click each plug-in that has a check mark next to its name.
This disables all optional plug-ins.

On the Tools menu, point to Plug-ins, and then select one of the plug-ins.
This enables the plug-in.

Play the same content that you were playing when the Player closed unexpectedly.
Do one of the following:
If the Player closes unexpectedly, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Plug-ins tab. Select the plug-in that you last enabled, and then click Remove.
If the Player does not close unexpectedly, enable another plug-in and repeat Steps 3 and 4 until you identify the damaged or incompatible plug-in.
If the previous procedure does not solve the problem, the damaged or incompatible plug-in might be a digital signal processing (DSP) or rendering plug-in. Because these plug-ins cannot be completely disabled, for troubleshooting purposes, you must remove them instead. Before you remove a plug-in, verify where you can reinstall (add) it from later.

To troubleshoot DSP and rendering plug-ins (advanced)
On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Plug-ins tab.
In Category, click Video DSP, select each of the plug-ins that appear in the Video DSP list (the right pane), and then click Remove.
Repeat for the Audio DSP, Other DSP, and Renderer categories.
All optional DSP and renderer plug-ins are removed.

Click Add, select one DSP or renderer plug-in to install, and then click Open.
On the Tools menu, point to Plug-ins, and verify that the added plug-in is selected (that is, it has a check mark next to its name). If it is not selected, click the plug-in to select it.
Because renderer plug-ins are always enabled, they do not appear on this menu.

Play content that uses the plug-in that you added.
To verify that the content is using the plug-in that you added, on the Plug-ins tab, in Category, click the type of plug-in that you added, and in the plug-in list (the right pane), verify that (loaded) appears after the plug-in name.

For DSP plug-ins, on the Tools menu, also point to Plug-ins, and verify that the added plug-in is selected.

If (loaded) does not appear after the plug-in name, play a different piece of content until it does.

Do one of the following:
If the Player closes unexpectedly, on the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Plug-ins tab. Select the plug-in that you added last, and then click Remove.
If the Player does not close unexpectedly, add another plug-in and repeat Steps 4 through 6 until you identify the damaged or incompatible plug-in.
Note

To add or remove plug-ins, you must be logged on to your computer with a user account that permits you to install programs (for example, an account that is a member of the Administrators or Power Users groups). For more information about user accounts, see Windows Help.
Error ID = 0xC00D0FD6, Condition ID = 0x00000000



Anyone know of anything i can do about it?

Btw, the only plug-in i have enabled is audioscobbler!

Windows Media Player always disables the plugins if it crashes, I don't think there's a lot you can do about it...