1. http://sillydog.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1821
2. I use CDEX for this.
3. Try System Restore.
4. What's the plan here? Software does get screwed up.
5. Review http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html as well.
Bob
Today for some reason my Media player will no longer rip MP3s from a CD to my hard drive. Other than that, it seems to play fine. When I get the Player setup to convert music files to MP3 format on my hard drive and I click on "copy music", I get an immediate following error message...
Windows Media Player encountered an unknown error
About a week ago, my Media player worked fine in this mode. I thought about removing the Player (which is listed in my "add/remove programs" as Windows Media Player Hotfix-KB823182 and reinstalling it. However, when I select it, a window comes up with several other programs on my computer that are linked to Media Player and I didn't want to screw up any other programs. Would it hurt anything if I tried to reinstall Media Player over the existing software on my hard drive.?

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