garmanma Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 (edited) I don't know if this happened because I installed Firefox or not. WMP has been working all week. All of a sudden I cannot play music cd's or streaming audio. When I click on streaming link, The WMP installer opens up wanting to install WMP. I already have it,. Any ideas? Running XP with Firefox and Thunderbird I've done all the updates for it.Thanks Mark Edited March 18, 2006 by garmanma Quote Link to post Share on other sites
deaf_girl Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Try uninstalling WMP and reinstall Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted March 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 It's already updated to 10. Replying to Deafgirl, WMP is inbedded in XP. You can't reinstall just WMP. I installed Real Player and that works. I'm just wondering what happenedThanks Mark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wonderent Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 "I don't know if this happened because I installed Firefox or not. WMP has been working all week. All of a sudden I cannot play music cd's or streaming audio."Mark, the only thing I can tell you for sure is that Firefox does not affect WMP 10 for me. I use them both. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
garmanma Posted March 19, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 It's already updated to 10. Replying to Deafgirl, WMP is inbedded in XP. You can't reinstall just WMP. I installed Real Player and that works. I'm just wondering what happenedThanks Mark[/quoteThis tells how to remove it:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsme...er/faq.aspx#2_3The M.$. page I was on said you can remove it's controls but the program itself is embedded in XP. No big deal, I'm starting to like Real Player anywaysMark Quote Link to post Share on other sites
martymas Posted March 19, 2006 Report Share Posted March 19, 2006 yes microsoft now supports real playeronce it was a mongrel of a program it used to install spyware on your sys as well it was a difficult program to configure microsoft got into trouble with the european unionover wmp being embeddedas they supported real playerand microsoft was fined for breaking trade practicesmy opinion wmp is the best of all the players im speaking of wmp10i uninstalled real player and quick time many moons ago marty Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MrBill Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 (edited) yes microsoft now supports real playeronce it was a mongrel of a program it used to install spyware on your sys as well it was a difficult program to configure microsoft got into trouble with the european unionover wmp being embeddedas they supported real playerand microsoft was fined for breaking trade practicesmy opinion wmp is the best of all the players im speaking of wmp10i uninstalled real player and quick time many moons ago martyReal Player Alternative is much better then Real Time is. Just like QT Alternative is better then QT. Kept up to date more then the others are. And you don't need the originals to do it and they are both FREE. Edited March 20, 2006 by MrBill Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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