Im getting the error “Windows Media update notifier is currently unable to detect available updates, please try again later” during a player install. How do I fix this?
WMP7 (and newer) setup uses the IE XML parser. You may be either missing “c:\windows\system\msxml.dll” or it may have become unregistered. Typically reinstalling IE will fix this issue, or you can manually run: regsvr32.exe msxml.dll from the Start:Run menu, which should be the quickest possible way to fix the issue. Note that the WMP7.1 installer tries to reregister msxml.dll if it detects this problem, so if you hit this issue with the WMP7.1 or later installer, you’ll need to reinstall Internet Explorer. If you can’t view this, then your IE XML parser is really broken. WMP setup uses a slightly older XML parser, though, so if the new IE XML parser is working but the old one isn’t, then you’d be able to view that XML page, but WMP setup still wouldn’t be able to detect updates until the old XML parser was fixed. A Repair of Internet Explorer may fix that up, or as Jason points out you can use the IE XML download. There is also a write-up of this here.
WMP7 (and newer) setup uses the IE XML parser. You may be either missing “c:\windows\system\msxml.dll” or it may have become unregistered. Typically reinstalling IE will fix this issue, or you can manually run: regsvr32.exe msxml.dll from the Start:Run menu, which should be the quickest possible way to fix the issue. Note that the WMP7.1 installer tries to reregister msxml.dll if it detects this problem, so if you hit this issue with the WMP7.1 or later installer, you’ll need to reinstall Internet Explorer. If you can’t view this, then your IE XML parser is really broken. WMP setup uses a slightly older XML parser, though, so if the new IE XML parser is working but the old one isn’t, then you’d be able to view that XML page, but WMP setup still wouldn’t be able to detect updates until the old XML parser was fixed. A Repair of Internet Explorer may fix that up, or as Jason points out you can use the IE XML download There is also a write-up of this here.
