Hosed by QuickTime

[Guest]

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Background:
It used to be that if I clicked on a *.mpg link, the movie
would open and autoplay in a stand alone version of
MediaPlayer.

Then one day I downloaded and installed QuickTime Browser
plug-in. After which clicking on a *.mpg file would cause
the movie to play IN the browser using QuickTime player. I
did not like this and removed QuickTime from the system.

The result is that now clicking on a *.mpg link will open
MediaPlayer as the player but now it is embedded in the
browser and does not autoplay.

Question:
How do I make it so the clicking on a *.mpg link opens
MediaPlayer as a standalone application and autoplay like
it used to?

Regards.

 

[Guest]

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

Try,
From WMP
Tools
Options
Player
on top.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk
"Happy Camper" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c19401c45207$15d07c10$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> Background:
> It used to be that if I clicked on a *.mpg link, the movie
> would open and autoplay in a stand alone version of
> MediaPlayer.
>
> Then one day I downloaded and installed QuickTime Browser
> plug-in. After which clicking on a *.mpg file would cause
> the movie to play IN the browser using QuickTime player. I
> did not like this and removed QuickTime from the system.
>
> The result is that now clicking on a *.mpg link will open
> MediaPlayer as the player but now it is embedded in the
> browser and does not autoplay.
>
> Question:
> How do I make it so the clicking on a *.mpg link opens
> MediaPlayer as a standalone application and autoplay like
> it used to?
>
> Regards.

 

[Guest]

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

Thanks for the quick response.
I tried the 'on top' option but it did not help.
I ended up doing a system restore point to a couple of days
earlier and that took care of it for me.

Regards.

>-----Original Message-----
>Try,
>From WMP
>Tools
>Options
>Player
>on top.
>
>--
>Graham Hughes
>MVP Digital Media
>www.simplydv.co.uk
>"Happy Camper" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
in message
>news:1c19401c45207$15d07c10$a401280a@phx.gbl...
>> Background:
>> It used to be that if I clicked on a *.mpg link, the movie
>> would open and autoplay in a stand alone version of
>> MediaPlayer.
>>
>> Then one day I downloaded and installed QuickTime Browser
>> plug-in. After which clicking on a *.mpg file would cause
>> the movie to play IN the browser using QuickTime player. I
>> did not like this and removed QuickTime from the system.
>>
>> The result is that now clicking on a *.mpg link will open
>> MediaPlayer as the player but now it is embedded in the
>> browser and does not autoplay.
>>
>> Question:
>> How do I make it so the clicking on a *.mpg link opens
>> MediaPlayer as a standalone application and autoplay like
>> it used to?
>>
>> Regards.
>
>
>.
>