Actually, my Media Centre crashes fairly consistently after about 20 seconds.
I found out just now.
Somethings definitely off with my Windows installation. :-S I'll try rolling
back a few updates, see if that helps. Maybe even do a System Restore.
"peter c.a.hawkins" wrote:
>
> 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?