IE6 uses wrong (old) version of WMP

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I am using XP SP2 with WMP v10 installed, but whenever IE6 plays a movie it
uses WMP 6.4.09.1130, which has problems playing some wmv's. I can't find
anywhere to set what media player IE should be using, or even find where WMP
v6 is installed on my system. Does anyone has a solution?

System is completely up to date with Win Update, and is a pretty recent
install. This problem has happened as long as I can remember. I have tried
uninstalling WMP10 and reinstalling, didn't help.
 
Try toggling the default file type associations from within Windows
Mediaplayer itself. That could get things sorted.

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I have a PC with the same prob.

XP-Pro, sp2, IE6, WMP10.

I have set WMP10 to be default for all files.
Opening a webpage with an embedded player and IE uses WMP version
6.4......(wont play streaming media)

The media the player is playing is streaming media and when I paste the URL
of the media directly into the address bar WMP10 opens and playes the media
fine.

I tried renaming mplayer.exe but windows just created a new mplayer.exe.
 
To the best of my knowledge it happens on all pages when trying to play media
using an embedded player. The embedded player is always version 6.4.
 
I don't know what the problem is. Try one of the Media Player newsgroups.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/wi...dg=microsoft.public.windowsmedia&ang=en&cr=US

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