If you click the Web Help button on WMP's error dialog, what URL does it
take you to? That URL itself should have some useful data. =\
Is this an upgrade to Vista or a new system?
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Speaking for myself only.
See
http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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"Lazy" <Lazy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B61202D5-A212-412C-B517-48BA22441618@microsoft.com...
> Whenever I try to play a DVD, .avi, .mpg, etc on Windows Media Player, it
> plays the video with no sound and gives me the following error:
> Windows Media Player cannot access the file. The file might be in use, you
> might not have access to the computer where the file is stored, or your
> proxy
> settings might not be correct.
> But I'm on the administrator account, so it's not because I don't have
> access, and the file is not in use elsewhere.
> Also when I ty to play DVDs on Windows Media Center, I get the following
> error:
> Video Error-Files needed to display video are not installed or not working
> correctly. Please restart Windows Media Center or restart computer.
> I have restarted both Media Center AND my computer and the DVDs still
> won't
> play.
> The video files used to work on my old computer that ran XP, but they
> won't
> work on Vista.
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