you have bugs in your video drivers, sound card drivers, or DirectX. you will need to update all of the above to see if they make any difference. that means going to the appropriate vendor's web sites and seeing if you can find updated drivers. if the computer manufacturer sells you everything in the box at once, you contact the manufacturer's tech support.
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My windows media player will only play about 5 seconds of a 20 second trailer. The status bar will load to the full 20 seconds, but when you hit play only the first few seconds run and the rest of the movie is still. Can I adjust any settings, or would you install something else? Please be detailed in your possible fixes. I am running windows 98. Thanks

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