media player

I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the setup and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop. Help....

I've had that happen a few times. Pull up Task Manager (right click on task bar and select Task Manager or hit Ctl-Alt-Del) and look for wmplayer.exe and kill the process. The double click on your media file again and it should load.
"apache56" wrote in message

I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the setup and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop. Help....

That isn't the problem it's not starting at all. There is no sign of it in Task Manager at all. That is the first place I checked. I'm almost ready to reload the whole OS.
"Scott Glasgow" wrote:

I've had that happen a few times. Pull up Task Manager (right click on task bar and select Task Manager or hit Ctl-Alt-Del) and look for wmplayer.exe and kill the process. The double click on your media file again and it should load.
"apache56" wrote in message I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the setup and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop. Help....

I had a similar problem, where windows media player didn't open in vista. I uninstalled and reinstalled it, which solved that problem, but now nothing plays; whether streamed off urge or preinstalled with vista and WMP 11. Any suggestions?
Admitadly, windows update advisor told me that my internal sound card would not be recognized, but I switched over to USB speakers with still no luck.
"apache56" wrote:

That isn't the problem it's not starting at all. There is no sign of it in Task Manager at all. That is the first place I checked. I'm almost ready to reload the whole OS.
"Scott Glasgow" wrote:
I've had that happen a few times. Pull up Task Manager (right click on task bar and select Task Manager or hit Ctl-Alt-Del) and look for wmplayer.exe and kill the process. The double click on your media file again and it should load.
"apache56" wrote in message I'm having a problem with Media player not starting. I went through the setup and tried to play a video and it doesn't start at all. I have run Windows update multiple times. I'm running beta 2 on an Compaq NC6120 laptop. Help....