"hardware acceleration" greyed out in media p

Laurence wrote on 1/21/2006, 11:30 PM
I was experimenting with media player playback settings and I switched the "prefered decoder" from "hardware" to "software". Now my media playback is even worse than before and its greyed out so I can't switch it back. I tried reinstalling media player (version 10) and even doing a system restore back to before I unchecked this option. It's greyed out no matter what I do. Any ideas of how to reset this?