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Old 06-21-2007   #4 (permalink)
peter c.a.hawkins


 
 

RE: Windows Media Player won't start


does your media centre play music ok?
mine would freeze when trying to play music before i fixed it with the plug
ins trouble.
you may want to try removing all recent windows updates,then try your wmp11,
adding each update back 1 by 1.
"henrikwl" wrote:

> Good idea. I checked, but the Live Messenger plugin wasn't active, and I
> don't have neither the Live toolbar nor the MSN media bar.
>
> I even tried uninstalling all codec packs, to no avail.
>
> Isn't there a "repair installation" function for the Media Player? Short of
> reinstalling Windows - which I don't fancy doing - I don't see any other
> options.
>
> "peter c.a.hawkins" wrote:
>
> > I had this same thing,i found it was to do with plug-ins in wmp11.
> > i disabled the windows live plug in and the msn media bar plug in and now
> > all works ok.
> >
> > "henrikwl" wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings!
> > >
> > > I have a problem with my Media Player 11 on Vista Ultimate. Whenever it is
> > > started, it simply exits - no window ever popping up, no event logged,
> > > nothing. This happes regardless of whether I run it as Admin, as a user,
> > > whether I start it via shortcut or double-click a .wm* file.
> > >
> > > I tried the fix in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/925704 but it didn't
> > > help. Has anybody got any idea what's wrong?

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