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    Buddy Love Guest

    Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service....

    my Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service does notwork.




    Recently there was a brief power failure, there was no hardware damage, so
    dont think its that. I restarted, pc all seemed well. now everything works
    perfectly fine as it should except at bootup i occasionaly get the error

    Windows media player network sharing service has stopped working and was
    closed. now, windows will notify you if a solution is available... ahahah
    what a complete joke.. I went into my computer management, clicked services,
    found Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service and its set to startup
    (delayed) and i hit stop, hit start again..

    it then proceeds to startup, and then fails and i get this message
    Windows media player network sharing service has stopped working and was
    closed.

    when i open up wmp 11, i can play any video no worries, but when i open up
    any music... it just freezes and comes up with error, wmp has stopped
    working.. blah blah, no error message, just the default usual crap. Now.. i
    beleive that with my xbox 360 with the media sharing enabled, i could play
    music through pc onto xbox right, with the power failure, its corrupted that
    service, and now i cant restart the service, or even play mp3's or any kind
    of music whatsoever because of this corrupt service.

    so does anyone know how to reinstall/jump start this service again believe
    it is corrupt..... I cant even reinstall wmp11, vista is sure getting onto my
    nerves



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    ChunksRU Guest

    Re: Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service....


    I have this exact same problem. Everstartup I get the error message.
    Service will not restart. Can not play any music at all using any
    Microsoft product. When I start any music source in any variety of ways
    it crashed whatever microsoft music player I try to use. Doesn't matter
    if the source is streaming off the internet, my media pc in the other
    room, on my local internal or external hard drives.

    iTunes seems to work fine. Don't know why. WMP11 and Zune player do not
    work at all. Can't turn on preview pane in a music folder and play it
    there. I noticed above post was made in August. Any chance you figured
    out a fix by now? I hope...


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    Buddy Love Guest

    Re: Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service....

    Reinstalled windows...

    "ChunksRU" wrote:

    >
    > I have this exact same problem. Everstartup I get the error message.
    > Service will not restart. Can not play any music at all using any
    > Microsoft product. When I start any music source in any variety of ways
    > it crashed whatever microsoft music player I try to use. Doesn't matter
    > if the source is streaming off the internet, my media pc in the other
    > room, on my local internal or external hard drives.
    >
    > iTunes seems to work fine. Don't know why. WMP11 and Zune player do not
    > work at all. Can't turn on preview pane in a music folder and play it
    > there. I noticed above post was made in August. Any chance you figured
    > out a fix by now? I hope...
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    ChunksRU Guest

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    Yep, that's what I was afraid the answer was going to be. Oh well. It's
    heading into the weekend so at least I have lots of time. Thanks for
    the reply.


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    I think I found the corrupt file. I had the same error message, but the
    other day I had changed a dll file in system32. So i switched the
    original file back and now everything works perfectly. the file is
    mf.dll If you would like me to email you the original file, that may
    solve your problems too.


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    ChunksRU Guest

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    You know, I found that same file recently. It was of course after I had
    done a re-install, which sucked. I think I'm straightened out now,
    funny how much can change if you replace a file so small. I kept the
    original file though so I can just swap it back and forth when
    necessary.

    Now that I've got it dialed in, I hope there will be no more problems.
    Thanks for the reply though. It's all learning.

    All for the love of Halo 2


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    Funny, I didnt want to say it but that is what I was doing too. lol.
    didnt want to accuse you of anything. ditto, all for the love of halo
    2. small world.
    That surprised me too. I will just switch it before I play halo 2 now.
    the internet sure is amazing.


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    Re: Windows Media Player Network Sharing Service....

    Quote Originally Posted by connmannic View Post
    I think I found the corrupt file. I had the same error message, but the
    other day I had changed a dll file in system32. So i switched the
    original file back and now everything works perfectly. the file is
    mf.dll If you would like me to email you the original file, that may
    solve your problems too.

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    I just ran into this problem (I did not change the file)! I have Vista 64-bit. How do I get the original file?

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