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Question

Windows Media Player Intruding

Dec 16, 2013 9:54AM PST

Please / thanks:

Running Windows XP Home & WP 12 Office; so suddenly this afternoon Windows Media Player decides it is being called from the dungeon and must immediately open up whenever I am in a WP document and run F2 (Find and Replace) and use the keystrokes SFT-ALT-P (Find Previous) ... ?

Never knew what powerful magic resides in my fingers ... at least that must be how Mr. Gates & MicroMinions must see it, since I've changed no settings anywhere nor ever use Windows Media Player. And, of course, one can't abolish WinMedPlayer from the system, so there you have it.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks.

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Just one.
Dec 16, 2013 10:29AM PST

Why not associate your files again?
Bob

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Thanks.
Dec 16, 2013 3:25PM PST

Thanks for the response. Now, if you would be willing to translate "associate your files" for this non-techie that would be appreciated.

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Re: file association
Dec 16, 2013 4:57PM PST

A file association tells Windows what program to run if you double click on it in My Computer or Windows Explorer. It tells Windows what program is 'associated' with the file type of that file, so to speak.
https://www.google.com/search?q=XP+file+association tells you all about changing it.

But I'm afraid this is not your issue. Since it only happens if you press a certain (combination of) key(s) in Word Perfect it seems more like a WordPerfect issue. That's for Mr. Corel, not for Mr. Gates.

Kees

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Thanks for that.
Dec 17, 2013 1:13AM PST

I wonder if WordPerfect indeed is the issue. That is, I've lost count of troubles like above after registry cleaners or malware infections.

Fixes are usually associations and reinstalling the app.

Thanks for showing them where to learn more about associations. Given XP's age I forget folk may have never learned about this as it's such an important area to know about.
Bob