Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.

Thanks,

CNET Support

General discussion

Windows Media Player 10 dropping out

by BTT41 May 24, 2005 3:02AM PDT

Dell Dimension, XP, Pentium 4, 512 RAM, 2.99 GHz
When viewing streaming video, the WMP will (at random times) just drop out making it impossible to continue. The problem is fixed by a re-boot. Every re-boot gives me a message that Windows can't close because the WMP app is still running. I have to close it manually by clicking the End Now button. Following that, the re-boot is successful and WMP again is "normal"...until the next time, which could be later in the same day or the next day. Have uninstalled 10 and played 9 for a while but for reasons I can't recall I was bumped up to 10 again. Any thoughts? Thank you.
Bob

Discussion is locked

3 Posts

- Collapse + Expand Details

- Collapse -

Media Player 10

by gmperry May 24, 2005 7:18AM PDT

There are several that have had a problem with 10. I use 9 as it seems to work a lot better & have no problems. This has been sugested in these forums. Gordon

- Collapse -

Had similar problems

by AussiePete May 24, 2005 6:58PM PDT

usually when running in a window that is embedded in the web page - have changed this in the options to run as a separate occurrence of wmp and the problem doesn't occur anymore - also make sure you have all latest codecs and plugins.
peter

- Collapse -

also..

by AussiePete May 24, 2005 7:01PM PDT

look for hotfix updates by going to Windows Update web page as well as updates from within WMP.
Peter

Back to Windows Legacy OS forum