Chris

Hi, I've also had this wmp issue as well, and it is on a fresh installation.
I've also had the issue whereby wmp keeps playing sound despite having shut
it down, if you go to task manager you find it is still running as a
process. I think this is a bug some where within wmp...
ChrisC
"bucfan" <bucfan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:197D8197-532E-4868-A284-0986D1E99D5A@microsoft.com...
> This didnt work for me. I did install the package, though I received
> several
> errors but in the end it says it was successful. I just dont think it
> installed every codec. I still can not play .WMV files in media player
> itself
> or through a web page. This makes no sense, seeing how I could do this a
> week
> ago and I have not installed anything new since then or made any changes
> to
> my system. Any other ideas? How about uninstalling windows media player 11
> or
> repairing it which seems impossible in Vista?! Any way to do this and do
> you
> think it would help?
>
> "Jeff" wrote:
>
>> Google for "Vista codec package" and install it. It covers pretty much
>> all
>> audio and video formats.
>>
>>
>> "Rosedith" <Rosedith@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:1B66F9FB-AEA8-4C72-93E2-5361C653E4CB@microsoft.com...
>> >I can't get Media Player to open at all for ANY audio files. I like to
>> > listne to Internet Radio but on my new Vista machine, they won't open
>> > at
>> > all.
>> > When I click on Media Player exe, nothing happens. Ack. do I have to
>> > go
>> > back to my old Mac to liste to audio files?
>> >
>> > Rosey in Tucson
>> >
>> > "bucfan" wrote:
>> >
>> >> Several times a day just randomly I get a pop up that that says
>> >> "Windows
>> >> Media Player Has Stopped Working " and then it says it can check for a
>> >> solution or close the program. First off, this happens when I am not
>> >> even
>> >> running windows media players. Its just random. What could be the
>> >> problem
>> >> and why is it that all of a sudden I can not play .WMV files either
>> >> embedded
>> >> in web pages or downloaded to my computer? Windows Media Player will
>> >> play
>> >> other types of movie files but not the one it is suppose to. A week
>> >> ago I
>> >> had
>> >> no problems. Now this happens out of no where. Any help would be
>> >> appreciated.
>>