#1 would be to save your work every so often so a lockup will only lose a
few minutes work.
Many programs have a setting that allows you to do this automatically.
In programs that don't have such an option, I save the work as
projectfilename1, projectfilename2, etc until finished.
If you save every 15 mins, that is the most work you lose if something
causes a lockup, power outage, etc.
Make sure you have the latest updates to WMP and the proper codecs.
I have seen .wmv files that were corrupted and would lock the player up
every time.

"continouse sound" <continousesound@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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>I am using new laptop come with windows vista basic OS. Usually when I play
> some WMV files, it plays for sometimes then hang and monitor off, but the
> computer still working. I tried to press ctrl alt delete to stop the task
> of
> playing it or esc, or any other buttons. But it does not work. Therefore,
> sometimes I keep waiting for the processors or to the wondows to figure
> out
> what is the problem or waiting for the wondows media to stop playing the
> files. Unfortunatly, nothing happen still hanging. And I keep waiting for
> several hours, but nothing happen. After that I hold the power button to
> shut
> down then start again.
> May I know why this happen? whats wrong with my windows media player? and
> how can I solve this problem? it really drive me crazy especially when I
> got
> some works that i have to finish it, but when this problem occur, my works
> gone and I have to do it from begining.
> Kindly, please help me to figure out what is the problem and how to solve
> it?
>
> looking forward to hearing from you soon.
>
> your faithfully,
> AbdulRahman