MediaMonkey portable won't load as default app in Windows 10

[mightyflea]

I have a portable installation of MediaMonkey 4.1.10.1778 that I installed to a network drive from a Win 8.1 installation. I've been using this to play music on two different Win8.1 64-bit machines. I recently upgraded one of them to Win10 (64-bit). While I can run MediaMonkey just fine, and can even assign it as the default music app, when I attempt to double-click on an MP3 or right-click and select "Play in MediaMonkey", I get an alert saying, "This app can't run on your PC." Clearly, it can run just fine, but there's something preventing it from launching via file association.

I've tried Tools > Options > OS Integration, but that did not help. My searches indicate that this error is related to 32-bit/64-bit app/os mismatches. Could this have something to do with the MediaMonkey64Helper? Does the file launch command need to be changed to somehow include that?

[Lowlander]

Did you maybe have the MediaMonkey App (MM8) installed as well and this is what you're trying to run?

[mightyflea]

If you're referring to a Microsoft Store MediaMonkey app (Metro, or whatever it's called), I haven't installed anything like that. When I either select it from "Open With...." or as the default application, I select the portable install executable that resides on the network drive. Good thought, though.

[Lowlander]

It's the only thing I could think of as MediaMonkey runs fine on Windows 10 and I haven't seen anyone else mention this problem.

[mightyflea]

I think it may be specific to the portable install, as I'm imagining most people aren't using it.

[popsmike]

I think it may be specific to the portable install, as I'm imagining most people aren't using it.

I also use monkey as a portable version but don't use it for default play back but i tried your problem and YES it is the same for me.
When I try to set it, it sends me to this Page [color=#0000FF]http://www.mediamonkey.c ... 6/[/color]
which have tried but it don't work for this particular problem.

[mightyflea]

I tried those, too. Well, at least I know it's not limited to my system. That's progress, right?

[Peke]

I could not replicate the problem. do you have both Portable and regular installed on same PC?

[mightyflea]

I had installed a regular version on it a while back, but I uninstalled it prior to switching to the portable version. I looked, and the only MediaMonkey folder left under the Program Files directories contained just an old script file of mine. I deleted the MediaMonkey folder, just in case, but it made no difference.

[Peke]

Can you open support ticket?

[mightyflea]

This has bizarrely resolved itself. According to Programs and Features, since posting this, I have installed:

VLC Media Player 2.2.1
Kodi 15.2
Cyberlink PowerDVD 15
The Last Tinker: City of Colors (game)
Lumino City (game)

The system has installed:

an Avast Free Antivirus software update
Windows Driver Package - Silicon Labs Software (DSI_SiUSBXp_3_1) USB
Windows Driver Package - Dynastream Innocations, Inc. AND LibUSA Drivers
Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable 11.0.61030
Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable 9.0.30729.4148
Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable 12.0.21005

If anyone else runs into this, I hope this helps.