Windows 10: Windows Media Player

I have recently reinstalled Windows, due to some un resolvable issues. For the first time in 3 years, so that was good going for me :. I rarely use WMP, but do occasionally. I tried using it this morning and it is not responding. The player comes up when I click on it, but when I tried to play a file, no response. I noticed that the little progress circle was spinning round and I could not manually get rid of the player, I had to end task. Groove is working fine but I am not struck on it, also I dabble in mix engineering and all my Audio production software is also working fine. You might say why worry about it, but I want it to work. It always leaves me thinking something else is wrong when one app is not working properly or at all. Just to save time, I ran SFC no corrupt files I ran DISM all fine I also tried the following, ran optionalfeatures.exe and uninstalled wmp, restarted and reinstalled restarted again no joy. I also attempted to run the WMP diagnostic using msdt.exe -id but received an error response attached. If anybody has any other ideas, I would appreciate it.

:)

 

Faulty Windows Media Player

Windows Mesdis Player developed a fault (Played jerky an missed bits) so I down loaded Media Player 10.

It's no better. Any suggestions (I run Windows 98)

 

HELP! Windows Media Player Problem

http://support.microsoft.com/KB/243621

that covers up to version 10... let me see if its diffrent for the newer versions


EDit:

here is how to clear the frequent list.
http://www.blogsdna.com/4086/how-to...edia-player-12-frequent-list-in-windows-7.htm

and here is how to clear the history
http://www.downloadatoz.com/essenti...ar-the-windows-media-player-12-history_g.html

and from the last link is the same error where you can just disable it too =)

 

New Windows Media Player Plugin for Firefox

Anyone who uses Windows Vista and Mozilla Firefox may be pleased to hear that the Windows Media Player team has now released a plugin for Firefox that should allow the browser to play WMP content on websites. Here are the steps to get it working:

• Installation of the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin may require administrative access to your PC. It is recommended that you close all other open browser windows before continuing with the installation.
• Click the Install button to automatically download and install the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin.
• Depending on your security settings, you may see a Security Warning dialog box. Click Install to install the plugin.

There is a known issue if you are using Firefox version 2.0.0.3 on Windows Vista with the installer failing with error code -203. To work around this simply restart Firefox (you will get a notification that Windows Vista will be changing the Firefox compatibility settings) and then install again - the second time should succeed.

The download is available here, and the new plugin works on all versions of Windows XP and Windows Vista (although it is mostly intended for Vista, as that currently has no WMP support in Firefox).

Source: Windows Vista Blog