Windows Media Player 7.1

Having trouble with Media Player. Whenever I click on a video or audio link, it says there is no data available , or that it cannot open the link. If I download the file, I can play it from my hard drive. <br>
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It's driving me crazy! <IMG SRC="smileys/hot.gif"> <br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Mike<br>
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Windows 98<br>
IE 6.0<br>
Windows Media Player 7.1<br>
DSL

 

Have you got a firewall up ?? Sounds like there might be port blocking going on.<br>
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Or just reinstall media player.

 

p.s. get MPlayer 8, you got DSL so do it !

 

I ****in give up! I can't even get to the media player newsgroups because of some unknown error. I'm wasting so much time and getting nowhere!<br>
OK...I feel better now. <br>
Anyone have any ideas on what to do now? i've reinstalled it 3 times. Same result.<br>
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Mike

 

try updating your IE, that does seem to fix a lot in the file associations dept.

 

A nice clean fresh IE install of IE6 and then WM player 8. Does wonders.

 

have you W98 SR2 or SR1 if you have SR1 it's normal.<br>
Other point was you before on AOL and now on DSL without reinstalling the OS if right you must reinstalle your system.<br>
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