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Apr 10, 2004 | 01:38 PM

**Jay-V**

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Windows Media Player help

For some reason my Windows Media Player wont come on. The icon is still there but everytime a click nothing happens. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks y'all-

Jay

Apr 10, 2004 | 04:46 PM

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I'm no help but almost every time I try to download a video to watch it Windows Media Player locks up my system and I have to hit the reset button. It's driving me nuts, I removed it from the system and downloaded it again and I'm still having the problem. If anyone has any helpful hints I'd like to hear them also.

exa4driver, you might want to try downloading it again since it's free.

Apr 10, 2004 | 08:43 PM

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thanks cg! i'll try it right now.

Apr 11, 2004 | 12:45 PM

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it could be still runing on the background..check the Process - and if you see it end task there...try again!

you should try other player - Winamp is pretty good

Apr 13, 2004 | 01:44 AM

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Originally posted by CG
I'm no help but almost every time I try to download a video to watch it Windows Media Player locks up my system and I have to hit the reset button.

You might want to see if the videos that are locking up your computer are all compressed with the same CODEC (eg. DivX), in which case you may have an old, buggy or damaged CODEC. Windows Media Player comes with a bunch of CODECs, but DivX isn't one of them, so re-installing it wouldn't help in that case.