I should add, that in the absense of error messages which can be very
helpful with WMP, in XP I could often fix things by reinstalling WMP. Vista
hoever, won't let you do that--it'll tell you it's there already.
CH
"Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Dennis,
>
> I got the pre-released vista from MSDN universal subscription. i suppose
> that is not the problem. I could view videos hosted on channel9 etc 2-3
> days
> back without any problem and i don't remember doing anything nasty on the
> dev
> machine.
>
> cheers
> rohit
>
> "Dennis Pack" wrote:
>
>> Rohit:
>> If you're using RC2 the beta codec package has expired.
>>
>> --
>> Dennis Pack
>> Vista x64 Enterprise
>> Office 2007
>> "Rohit" <Rohit@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:11FB7B7A-2D27-44F1-B174-0B27B2FDB3EB@microsoft.com...
>> >I have installed windows vista ultimate and things were going fine
>> > until yesterday when i tried to play a streaming video that uses
>> > windows media player activex control (using IE7). For some reason when
>> > i try to play any webcast that uses windows media player i see a cross
>> > in the player frame. I can not play any video online and IE does not
>> > care to tell me whats wrong?
>> > I do not login as administrator until unless required and i was
>> > wondering what could have happened to make the media player or prolly
>> > IE7 in a bad state?
>> >
>> > I tried searching on the web but i could not find any way to repair or
>> > reinstall windows media player on vista. Appreciate your help.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > rohit
>>