Windows mediq player does not start

Whenever I try to launch Windows Media Player from the start menu,
nothing happens. What can I do to solve this ?


Thanks,

Matthieu

What happens if you right-click on Media Player, choose Open File Location,
and double-click on wmplayer.exe?

If nothing happens, open Task Manager (right-click your Taskbar) and see if
wmplayer.exe is running, on the Processes tab. If it is, right-click
wmplayer.exe, and choose End Process. Then try to open Media Player again.

If still no luck, try this:

Press the Windows key + R. In the Run box type

sfc /scannow

After the System File Checker scan, which may take awhile, you can confirm
any repairs by looking at the cbs.log (towards the end of the log) in
C:\Windows\Logs\CBS.

"Matthieu" <surnom.surnom@free.fr> wrote in message
news:-LCdnZ_3atFcb8nbnZ2dnUVZ_v3inZ2d@comcast.com...
> Whenever I try to launch Windows Media Player from the start menu, nothing
> happens. What can I do to solve this ?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matthieu

COmmand shows:

Beginning verification phase of system scan.
Verification 98% complete.
Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.


My systems looks like 2% incomplete ;-)


This is very strqnge sometimes WMP does not stqrt at all until next
reboot. Sometimes it's just I get no video in the embedded WMP in IE
and/or Firefox.

It used to work correctly for roughly a month.

dean-dean wrote:
> What happens if you right-click on Media Player, choose Open File Location,
> and double-click on wmplayer.exe?
>
> If nothing happens, open Task Manager (right-click your Taskbar) and see if
> wmplayer.exe is running, on the Processes tab. If it is, right-click
> wmplayer.exe, and choose End Process. Then try to open Media Player again.
>
> If still no luck, try this:
>
> Press the Windows key + R. In the Run box type
>
> sfc /scannow
>
> After the System File Checker scan, which may take awhile, you can confirm
> any repairs by looking at the cbs.log (towards the end of the log) in
> C:\Windows\Logs\CBS.
>
> "Matthieu" <surnom.surnom@free.fr> wrote in message
> news:-LCdnZ_3atFcb8nbnZ2dnUVZ_v3inZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Whenever I try to launch Windows Media Player from the start menu,
>> nothing happens. What can I do to solve this ?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matthieu
>

So it's starting at all, but only sometimes locking up and not starting
anymore ...... ? To clarify, does it ever just work? And if it does, when
it *doesn't* work, is wmplayer.exe present in the Processes tab of Task
Manager?

Offhand, this sounds like a glitched driver. What video card and audio
card? Are there driver updates available for those?

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"Matthieu" <surnom.surnom@free.fr> wrote in message
news:5sOdnQsNLLwOrcvbnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@comcast.com. ..
> COmmand shows:
>
> Beginning verification phase of system scan.
> Verification 98% complete.
> Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
>
>
> My systems looks like 2% incomplete ;-)
>
>
> This is very strqnge sometimes WMP does not stqrt at all until next
> reboot. Sometimes it's just I get no video in the embedded WMP in IE
> and/or Firefox.
>
> It used to work correctly for roughly a month.
>
> dean-dean wrote:
>> What happens if you right-click on Media Player, choose Open File
>> Location,
>> and double-click on wmplayer.exe?
>>
>> If nothing happens, open Task Manager (right-click your Taskbar) and see
>> if
>> wmplayer.exe is running, on the Processes tab. If it is, right-click
>> wmplayer.exe, and choose End Process. Then try to open Media Player
>> again.
>>
>> If still no luck, try this:
>>
>> Press the Windows key + R. In the Run box type
>>
>> sfc /scannow
>>
>> After the System File Checker scan, which may take awhile, you can
>> confirm
>> any repairs by looking at the cbs.log (towards the end of the log) in
>> C:\Windows\Logs\CBS.
>>
>> "Matthieu" <surnom.surnom@free.fr> wrote in message
>> news:-LCdnZ_3atFcb8nbnZ2dnUVZ_v3inZ2d@comcast.com...
>>> Whenever I try to launch Windows Media Player from the start menu,
>>> nothing happens. What can I do to solve this ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Matthieu
>>