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Victor - 20 Apr 2006 16:57 GMT

Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
then I must reboot windows. I've tried updating my video driver,
un-installing and re-installing the players and even restoring the registry
from a few days ago. I have all the most recent windows98 updates and the
most current IE/updates. Short of a windows over-install/repair can anyone
suggest a fix? Thanks.

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Ron Badour - 20 Apr 2006 19:16 GMT

Have you run recent scans with up to date antivirus and spyware programs?

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> Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
> MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
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> anyone
> suggest a fix? Thanks.

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Victor - 20 Apr 2006 20:35 GMT

Yes to both. No problems.

> Have you run recent scans with up to date antivirus and spyware programs?
>
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> > anyone
> > suggest a fix? Thanks.

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glee - 21 Apr 2006 03:07 GMT

Have you recently installed any third-party codecs for playing media types?

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> Yes to both. No problems.
>
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> > > anyone
> > > suggest a fix? Thanks.

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Victor - 21 Apr 2006 10:10 GMT

> Have you recently installed any third-party codecs for playing media types?
> > Yes to both. No problems.
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> > > > anyone
> > > > suggest a fix? Thanks.

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Victor - 21 Apr 2006 13:52 GMT

Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same happened.
Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I tried to close the
app, system crashed.

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dadiOH - 21 Apr 2006 14:19 GMT

> Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same
> happened. Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I
> tried to close the app, system crashed.

What happened, exactly? Any error message? What? BSOD? What message?
Or did everything just become non-responsive?

If the later, you might try repairing Internet Explorer. Yes, I know
that it isn't germaine vis a vis media players but it is hooked in with
Windows Explorer which manages all sort of opening/closing, etc. You
can get at the repair option via MS System Information, Tools.

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Victor - 21 Apr 2006 16:21 GMT

Everything just became unresponsive. I tried your suggestion of doing the IE
repair, but no luck. Same thing happened.

> > Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same
> > happened. Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I
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> LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
> Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

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glee - 22 Apr 2006 01:58 GMT

I suggest you pursue this in one of the mediaplayer groups.

news:microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplayer
news:microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player

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> Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same happened.
> Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I tried to close the
> app, system crashed.

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