After I changed my CPU, WMP would crash about 3 seconds after launch. A window came up and said WMP stopped working. The error is:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.6001.7000
Application Timestamp: 47919356
Fault Module Name: Indiv01.key
Fault Module Version: 11.0.6000.7000
Fault Module Timestamp: 46ddf6bf
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 000b57ef
OS Version: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: fd00
Additional Information 2: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
Additional Information 3: fd00
Additional Information 4: ea6f5fe8924aaa756324d57f87834160
The fault condition was caused by a flash drive, which up to the CPU changed, had no ill-effect with WPM. If I removed the flash drive, WPM worked fine.
After reading a few blogs, I located the Indiv01.key file:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\DRM\Cache
I made the file, Indiv01.key, unreadable. WMP no longer crashes. I cannot tell you the effect this has on other features. Everything else works appears to work fine. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. It appears this is a bug in Vista that has to do with not recognizing certain types of hardware or hardware changes.
