1st time ever error in Windows Media Player!
Tim
Southwest PA Icrontian
I went to work on someone else's computer today. It was a Dell Dimension 2200 with a 1.3 Celeron, 256 Mb, and 40 GB hard drive. All stock Dell stuff.
Windows XP Home.
They said they had 4 teenagers and their friends on the computer, and it had a lot of spyware / pop up ads.
Task Manager said it had 60 processes running! SIXTY!
So we decided the easiest and fastest thing to do would be a full XP reformat / reinstall. Using the Dell supplied CD, I did.
With a few notable exceptions I'll mention later in this post, all went normally.
XP Home comes with WMP 8, so I used one of my own custom burned CDs to put WMP 9 on it, and some 9 series codec packs.
But when I went to test it by playing a video from my site (www.loudmouthtim.com), it wouldn't play! It was saying WMP couldn't find / wouldn't play the file! And it wanted me to connect to the internet, which I already was!
I tried several other websites with videos with the same results.
After installing WMP 10 with no change and then going back to WMP 9, I figured out that it would play a .wmv file IF the file was first downloaded to the computer. Just clicking on a link from my site would not play it. I even called the ISP tech people that the person had, and they had no clue either.
Along with WMP, I had some other strange problems. I downloaded XP SP1, and even though it installed and it appeared in the Add/Remove Programs list, when I clicked on Control Panel << Performance and Maintenance << See basic information, it would not display that it had SP1 installed. And a Microsoft RPC call patch would also not install, saying SP1 had to be installed first. IT WAS INSTALLED!!! :banghead:
In 7 years of playing on internet capable computers, this is a first for me.
What can I do here?
Windows XP Home.
They said they had 4 teenagers and their friends on the computer, and it had a lot of spyware / pop up ads.
Task Manager said it had 60 processes running! SIXTY!
So we decided the easiest and fastest thing to do would be a full XP reformat / reinstall. Using the Dell supplied CD, I did.
With a few notable exceptions I'll mention later in this post, all went normally.
XP Home comes with WMP 8, so I used one of my own custom burned CDs to put WMP 9 on it, and some 9 series codec packs.
But when I went to test it by playing a video from my site (www.loudmouthtim.com), it wouldn't play! It was saying WMP couldn't find / wouldn't play the file! And it wanted me to connect to the internet, which I already was!
I tried several other websites with videos with the same results.
After installing WMP 10 with no change and then going back to WMP 9, I figured out that it would play a .wmv file IF the file was first downloaded to the computer. Just clicking on a link from my site would not play it. I even called the ISP tech people that the person had, and they had no clue either.
Along with WMP, I had some other strange problems. I downloaded XP SP1, and even though it installed and it appeared in the Add/Remove Programs list, when I clicked on Control Panel << Performance and Maintenance << See basic information, it would not display that it had SP1 installed. And a Microsoft RPC call patch would also not install, saying SP1 had to be installed first. IT WAS INSTALLED!!! :banghead:
In 7 years of playing on internet capable computers, this is a first for me.
What can I do here?
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Comments
It wants to only play files after they are downloaded, just clicking on the link doesn't do it.