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February 3rd, 2006 00:00

Windows Media Player

I just purchased a new E510 with XP 2005 media center OS and tried to open windows media player. I got the message that media player was not installed correctly and needed to be re-installed. When I downloaded the new version 10.0.0 3646 and tried to install, I got the message a newer version was already running, which was version 10.0.0.3806 and 10.0.0.3646 which I thought was the latest version would not re-install or over write to corrupt version, so I am not able to use WMA, can anyone give me some help, I need to be able to use WMA. Thanks
  • HTT Good HT Bad

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    Posted February 3rd, 2006 00:00

    I really don't know about your Windows Media Player problem, but I can recomend another Audio/Video Player that can play WMA and nearly every other format out there. Its called Video Lan Player, Just google it, then download it.
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    Posted February 3rd, 2006 01:00

    Thanks, If I can't find a solution for my problem I'll give Video Lan Player a try.
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    Posted February 3rd, 2006 11:00

    did you uninstall windows media plaer before you installed the file you downloaded???... Video lan player will give you average decoding.... its not the best. i would try windows classic part of the k lite codec pack
    http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

    it is as good as divx, and plays better than media player in the experence i've had


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  • joe53

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    Posted February 3rd, 2006 19:00

    fm58:

    You can't uninstall WMP10 on your system, but the solution to your problem is to uninstall any hotfixes for it via Control Panel>Add or Remove Programs first, then reinstall WMP10 over itself. Further details in this thread: http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=sw_winxp&message.id=177393