Vista - Media player problem

I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the setup
and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows
update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop. Help....

I've had that happen a few times. Pull up Task Manager (right click on task
bar and select Task Manager or hit Ctl-Alt-Del) and look for wmplayer.exe
and kill the process. The double click on your media file again and it
should load.

"apache56" <apache56@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AC512F96-4774-4B49-B659-165429D925BA@microsoft.com...
> I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the
> setup
> and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows
> update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop.
> Help....

That isn't the problem it's not starting at all. There is no sign of it in
Task Manager at all. That is the first place I checked. I'm almost ready to
reload the whole OS.

"Scott Glasgow" wrote:

> I've had that happen a few times. Pull up Task Manager (right click on task
> bar and select Task Manager or hit Ctl-Alt-Del) and look for wmplayer.exe
> and kill the process. The double click on your media file again and it
> should load.
>
> "apache56" <apache56@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AC512F96-4774-4B49-B659-165429D925BA@microsoft.com...
> > I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the
> > setup
> > and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows
> > update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop.
> > Help....
>

I had a similar problem, where windows media player didn't open in vista. I
uninstalled and reinstalled it, which solved that problem, but now nothing
plays; whether streamed off urge or preinstalled with vista and WMP 11. Any
suggestions?

Admitadly, windows update advisor told me that my internal sound card would
not be recognized, but I switched over to USB speakers with still no luck.

"apache56" wrote:

> That isn't the problem it's not starting at all. There is no sign of it in
> Task Manager at all. That is the first place I checked. I'm almost ready to
> reload the whole OS.
>
> "Scott Glasgow" wrote:
>
> > I've had that happen a few times. Pull up Task Manager (right click on task
> > bar and select Task Manager or hit Ctl-Alt-Del) and look for wmplayer.exe
> > and kill the process. The double click on your media file again and it
> > should load.
> >
> > "apache56" <apache56@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:AC512F96-4774-4B49-B659-165429D925BA@microsoft.com...
> > > I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the
> > > setup
> > > and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows
> > > update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop.
> > > Help....
> >