Thanks, Rob, but it wasn't it.

The particular option you mentioned is not in the player that is included
with Vista (v.11), but there are two options, one or both of which should
take care of the situation. Both were checked. they are (1) "Run script
commands and rich media streams when the player is in a web page" and (2)
"Play enhanced content that uses web pages without prompting".

And it seems fairly obvious that this is not the problem as Media Player
does run with the other browsers. The problem is with IE 7, not with WMP.

I also tried to run a different WMP stream from another web page, and it,
too, failed in exactly the same way. But there was a difference. This second
web page (http://paulharvey.com), also offered their stream via Quicktime
(Ugh) and Flash Player (Ugh Ugh). Both those streams ran properly from the
IE 7 web page.

So there's a problem. i can work around the problem with the other browsers,
but, frankly, I do not wish to do so. So I still need help.

Rev

Robert,

Looks like you've really studied the underpinnings of IE.

I tried your suggestions, and was easily able to open the link directly in
WMP. But I knew that would work, the .asx file opened WMP in other browsers.

One of the things I had tried prior to my first post was to actually paste
the .asx file in the browser directly. I had the same exact results as when
I clicked on the link ... the error page. By the way, there appears to be
virtually no time between the click and the appearance of the error page. It
appears that IE isn't even trying very hard.

In the mean time, I've tried to open a few other .asx files (see, for
example, the ones at http://paulharvey.com) and had the same result, so,
while I haven't clicked on all .asx web streams, it appears that IE 7
generally has a problem with them.

Upon reading your reply, I went into Internet Options and made the change
you suggested, that is to disable "Open files based on content ...". I
closed IE 7 and reopened it. The problem was still there. I then rebooted,
thinking that a reboot may have been necessary. The problem remained.

Doing further research on the problem, I found several internet web page
posts complaining of the same problem. One of them actually claimed a
solution. Their solution did not work for me. Basically, their solution was
to drill down to C: \Users \<User Name> \AppData \Local \Microsoft \Windows
Media and change the name of folder "11.0" to something else. I changed the
name to "Eleven.zero" and this did not work. In fact, when I went back to
the folder to change it's name back, I found a new "11.0" along with the
older folder "Eleven.zero".

I also tried a couple of other things thinking they might help. I
uninstalled "Haute Secure" and I reinabled UAC, which I had previously shut
off. Neither of these actions helped.

Thanks for your help, but I'm still looking for a solution.

Rev