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Media Player 11 Won't Spawn (open up) On Any Internet Videos

Aug 31, 2007 12:22PM PDT

I just got a new computer that came with Windows Vista Home Premium. I've been trying to view some videos on the internet with no success. On the old XP, all I had to do was click a video link and Windows Media Player would spawn (pop up) and start playing the video (I have cable internet by the way). Howvever now on Vista, every time I click on a video link Windows Media Player doesn't open up, it doesn't do anything, and Explorer directs me to the error page of "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage." It doesn't matter what kind of file I'm trying to view, whether it's a mpeg, avi, or wma, the result is always the same. I can however pop in a dvd or my external hard drive and start watching any of the videos I have saved. It just doesn't do anything on the web. So if anyone can help me out, it would be much appricated. Thanks for your time.

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Sounds familiar.
Sep 1, 2007 11:39PM PDT

In other Windows versions this happened for a few reasons. The pop up blocker blocked the launch or there was an error on the web page's code.

Without an example link I can't check it out.

Bob

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Hmmmm
Sep 20, 2007 11:55PM PDT

For me Windows Media Player just stopped working period... so I guess your lucky, you should have the plugins with IE so I don't know what your problem is but I wish you luck. I would have recommended reinstalling WMP but as I can find there is no way to do this, if I am wrong... please let me know... please