To use Windows Media Player, log off from windows, log back on, an   

I am running Windows XP Home.  I cannot open up WMP.  If I uninstall WMP and 
then reinstall WMP, will I lose all of my music files???

I am not sure if the problem is from ccleaner or Apple's Quicktime update.

date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:05:00 -0800   author:   Sharon

Re: To use Windows Media Player, log off from windows, log back on, an   

Sharon  wrote:

> I am running Windows XP Home. 


They you should probably be posting in one of the regular WMP groups
since this is the one for the Mac version :-)


> I cannot open up WMP.  If I uninstall WMP and 
> then reinstall WMP, will I lose all of my music files???


I think I can safely answer that question though: uninstalling WMP
shoudl leave all your personal data intact. The uninstaller only takes
care of the app itself.

In any case, it never hurts to make a backup..... ;-)


Corentin



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date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 09:18:29 -0600   author:   Corentin ()

Re: To use Windows Media Player, log off from windows, log back on, an   

On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 07:05:00 -0800, Sharon
 wrote:

>I am running Windows XP Home.  I cannot open up WMP.  If I uninstall WMP and 
>then reinstall WMP, will I lose all of my music files???
>
>I am not sure if the problem is from ccleaner or Apple's Quicktime update.


Older versions of ccleaner have been known to hose WMP's uninstaller,
rendering it effectively useless. Unless you *know* you used the most
recent version, from their website rather than a 3rd party file
sharing site, then it could be bad news.

Quicktime normally associates itself with several file types that WMP
may also handle - but that's recoverable if your only problem is that
Quicktime opens when you expected WMP to - post back if that's the
case and I'll walk you through re-associating WMP with the normal file
types it uses that QUicktime might grab.

HTH
Cheers - Neil
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date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:57:46 GMT   author:   Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]

RE: To use Windows Media Player, log off from windows, log back on, an   

Im having the same problem with the same question its so annoying!! hopefully 
some one will post something useful to us!
-- 
Murphy


"Sharon" wrote:

> I am running Windows XP Home.  I cannot open up WMP.  If I uninstall WMP and 
> then reinstall WMP, will I lose all of my music files???
> 
> I am not sure if the problem is from ccleaner or Apple's Quicktime update.

date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 16:12:02 -0800   author:   Ann