Have you tried revoving windows media player altogether with add/remove Windows components and then installing WMP 10?

It's a setting somewhere...I've had this problem before.

Go to "Start -> Control Panel -> Quicktime" to open the Quicktime Settings window.
Go to the Browser tab and click the Mime Settings...

Here...this might help:

http://forums.techguy.org/all-other-software/461336-cant-uninstall-quicktime.html

Have you tried reinstalling the old version?

If you can't do that...the only other way I know of its to dig it out of the registry. The problem with that is that if you do something wrong...you...

There is a program that might work called badcopy pro that is supposed to be able to recover data from corrupt discs...

It's a long shot, but worth a try.

http://www.jufsoft.com/

Have you tried exporting the resized image using the jpg optimizer?

Nevermind...I got it.

Some program I installed added another program that attached itself to the office programs.

I got rid of it and all is well now.

I haven't used my PowerPoint in forever, but when I tried to modify an old presentation today I could not use the mouse to drag objects. Then I tried clicking on the file menu and found I couldn't...