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soundguy22 December 21st 04 09:17 PM

audio files in windows media player
 
when i try to play any audio file in windows media player, it tells me that i
need to run FMV.exe in order to open it, FMV is a video editing program that
I recently uninstalled because of this problem

Andrew H. Carter December 21st 04 09:46 PM

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 12:17:04 -0800, "soundguy22"
scribbled some
thoughts:


when i try to play any audio file in windows media player, it tells me that i
need to run FMV.exe in order to open it, FMV is a video editing program that
I recently uninstalled because of this problem



You need to change file associations and or do some registry
tweaking.

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Richard G. Harper December 21st 04 11:09 PM

The easy way to fix this is to hold down the Shift key on your keyboard,
then right-click a media file and use "Open With ..." on the pop-up menu to
re-set the file to be opened in Media Player.

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"soundguy22" wrote in message
...
when i try to play any audio file in windows media player, it tells me
that i
need to run FMV.exe in order to open it, FMV is a video editing program
that
I recently uninstalled because of this problem





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