After a fresh install of XP I enjoyed movies on WMP 11 for a couple of months. I was even enjoying the feature that WMP 11 has where it plays media in full screen mode on the 2nd Display -- which are my TV's throughout the house. Then it stopped! D-Day "Windows Media Player encountered a problem while playing the file. For additional assistance, click Web Help." Web Help talks of audio it's working and up to date. All of the trial DVD player software works well, except the cool feature of playing full-screen on the 2nd display automatically -- but not WMP 10/11. I can't remember which program I installed or uninstalled to break WMP 11 but it's definitely broke. I bought Nvidia's payWare decoder, it don't help matters. I've tried uninstalling WM11, nope. I bought RegCure to see if there is any old registry entries; didn't help me with WMP 11 but my computer responds faster and my shutdown and start-up time is much faster. Sweet! Can't find any support for completely and manually uninstalling WMP :-( I've spent over 40 hours trying to solve this this past year to no avail. Why can other programs break WMP? Why can't I truly uninstall WMP without having to do a fresh install of the whole computer and OS? Anybody know of a utility to truly uninstall WMP and start over? Thanks in advance. Darrell "Lynx" wrote: > Hi bacrath, > When you uninstall wmp it will (rather should) roll back to previous > version. > If you read this news group or other forums you may notice that the process > may Not go smooth. > Another point is : v10 doesn't come with dvd decoder too. So if you played > DVDs before as I can see it now - the installation of 11 broke what you had > previously concerning decoder. So, anyway you may need to do what Jerry > suggested even if you roll back to V10. > My advice is leave this pathetic wmp thing as is (v11). If some parts of it > work - let them work. Where there are many bugs let them stay with it. > Save rollback troubles and get those free: > 1) VLC player - no codec needed - plays all including DVDs + streaming > features are amazing > 2) Media Player Classic + K-lite Codec Pack (I use Full or Mega pack) > > all 3 mentioned can be downloaded from http://www.free-codecs.com/index.htm > > When you get that codec pack you probably :-) be able to play DVDs with WMP. > You will. > > 3) In addition if you get Real Alternative and QuickTime Alternative from > > free-codec site those will play respective media through Classic, you dont > need another 2 monsters, and you are > > set for virtually "all known" media" and DVDs > > Regards > > >
