Media Players are crashing 98

Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
then I must reboot windows. I've tried updating my video driver,
un-installing and re-installing the players and even restoring the registry
from a few days ago. I have all the most recent windows98 updates and the
most current IE/updates. Short of a windows over-install/repair can anyone
suggest a fix? Thanks.

Have you run recent scans with up to date antivirus and spyware programs?

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Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Victor" wrote in message
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Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
then I must reboot windows. I've tried updating my video driver,
un-installing and re-installing the players and even restoring the
registry
from a few days ago. I have all the most recent windows98 updates and the
most current IE/updates. Short of a windows over-install/repair can
anyone
suggest a fix? Thanks.

Yes to both. No problems.


"Ron Badour" wrote:

Have you run recent scans with up to date antivirus and spyware programs?

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Victor" wrote in message
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Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
then I must reboot windows. I've tried updating my video driver,
un-installing and re-installing the players and even restoring the
registry
from a few days ago. I have all the most recent windows98 updates and the
most current IE/updates. Short of a windows over-install/repair can
anyone
suggest a fix? Thanks.

Have you recently installed any third-party codecs for playing media types?
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Victor" wrote in message
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Yes to both. No problems.


"Ron Badour" wrote:

Have you run recent scans with up to date antivirus and spyware programs?

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Victor" wrote in message
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Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
then I must reboot windows. I've tried updating my video driver,
un-installing and re-installing the players and even restoring the
registry
from a few days ago. I have all the most recent windows98 updates and the
most current IE/updates. Short of a windows over-install/repair can
anyone
suggest a fix? Thanks.

No

"glee" wrote:

Have you recently installed any third-party codecs for playing media types?
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm


"Victor" wrote in message
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Yes to both. No problems.


"Ron Badour" wrote:

Have you run recent scans with up to date antivirus and spyware programs?

--
Regards


Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98
Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour
Knowledge Base Info:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo



"Victor" wrote in message
...
Just recently I have been having problems with my media players (WMP v.7,
MPclassic). Every time I load them and try to play a file, they hang and
then I must reboot windows. I've tried updating my video driver,
un-installing and re-installing the players and even restoring the
registry
from a few days ago. I have all the most recent windows98 updates and the
most current IE/updates. Short of a windows over-install/repair can
anyone
suggest a fix? Thanks.

Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same happened.
Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I tried to close the
app, system crashed.

Victor wrote:
Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same
happened. Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I
tried to close the app, system crashed.

What happened, exactly? Any error message? What? BSOD? What message?
Or did everything just become non-responsive?

If the later, you might try repairing Internet Explorer. Yes, I know
that it isn't germaine vis a vis media players but it is hooked in with
Windows Explorer which manages all sort of opening/closing, etc. You
can get at the repair option via MS System Information, Tools.


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dadiOH
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dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

Everything just became unresponsive. I tried your suggestion of doing the IE
repair, but no luck. Same thing happened.


"dadiOH" wrote:

Victor wrote:
Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same
happened. Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I
tried to close the app, system crashed.

What happened, exactly? Any error message? What? BSOD? What message?
Or did everything just become non-responsive?

If the later, you might try repairing Internet Explorer. Yes, I know
that it isn't germaine vis a vis media players but it is hooked in with
Windows Explorer which manages all sort of opening/closing, etc. You
can get at the repair option via MS System Information, Tools.


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dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.06...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico

I suggest you pursue this in one of the mediaplayer groups.

news:microsoft.public.multimedia.windows.mediaplay er
news:microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP Shell/User, A+
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Victor" wrote in message
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Just out of curiosity I installed wmp version 6.4 and the same happened.
Tried to load a video clip and it wouldn't, then when I tried to close the
app, system crashed.