Media Player 7 won't start

[Tim]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

am running Windows XP Professional which is up to date
in relation to service pak's and hot fixes.

My problem is the Player won't start, either when I
double click on a audio or movie file or from the "start
programs" shortcut. There is some disc activity, then
nothing!

It was working Tuesday and when I tried to start it on
Wednesday it would not start.

I did a system restore back to Tuesday and no luck.

I ran a virus check which did not find any viruses. I
also ran Ad-Aware and Spybot, both of which came up
clean.

Winamp works.

Any advice on how I can get Media Player working again
will be appreciated.

Many thanks.


Tim

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

WMP 8 is shipped with XP. You can't have WMP 7 on an XP machine.

Assuming you just got the wrong number in there I would suggest scanning for
both spyware and virus' and then reinstall WMP over itself.

--
Chris Lanier
Microsoft MVP - Digital Media
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"Tim" <patewilliam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1d33001c42335$517864e0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> am running Windows XP Professional which is up to date
> in relation to service pak's and hot fixes.
>
> My problem is the Player won't start, either when I
> double click on a audio or movie file or from the "start
> programs" shortcut. There is some disc activity, then
> nothing!
>
> It was working Tuesday and when I tried to start it on
> Wednesday it would not start.
>
> I did a system restore back to Tuesday and no luck.
>
> I ran a virus check which did not find any viruses. I
> also ran Ad-Aware and Spybot, both of which came up
> clean.
>
> Winamp works.
>
> Any advice on how I can get Media Player working again
> will be appreciated.
>
> Many thanks.
>
>
> Tim