Quote: Originally Posted by
Grace Galton 
I lost media player icon and could not access the player, but when I put a DVD in, it came back. Now I am afraid to exit because I have no icon to be able to call up the programme again. Do I have to resort to inserting a DVD every time? Won't work with a CD (defaults to Itunes)
Refer this thread it may help you
I've lost Windows Media player again!