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soundguy22 - 21 Dec 2004 20:17 GMT

when i try to play any audio file in windows media player, it tells me that i
need to run FMV.exe in order to open it, FMV is a video editing program that
I recently uninstalled because of this problem

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Andrew H. Carter - 21 Dec 2004 20:46 GMT

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:17:04 -0800, "soundguy22"
<soundguy22@discussions.microsoft.com> scribbled some
thoughts:

>when i try to play any audio file in windows media player, it tells me that i
>need to run FMV.exe in order to open it, FMV is a video editing program that
>I recently uninstalled because of this problem

You need to change file associations and or do some registry
tweaking.

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Richard G. Harper - 21 Dec 2004 22:09 GMT

The easy way to fix this is to hold down the Shift key on your keyboard,
then right-click a media file and use "Open With ..." on the pop-up menu to
re-set the file to be opened in Media Player.

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> when i try to play any audio file in windows media player, it tells me
> that i
> need to run FMV.exe in order to open it, FMV is a video editing program
> that
> I recently uninstalled because of this problem

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