Media Player mystery again

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Media Player will not connect with radio stations as it used to.
When I click my old station, the application begins, and
I get the "connecting to media..." message, but it never connects.
I have no problems with it playing sounds and videos that are
on my hard disk. Another mystery is that I can't delete/uninstall
Media Player (I thought I would uninstall and re-install to see
if that might be the solution). When I try, I usually get the message
that it is being used by some other program, when it damn well
isn't!! When I actually go into the folder and try to delete the
app., it disappears for 10 or 15 seconds, then re-appears! It's
almost acting like a hijacker program or something. What's
the deal? Common problem? Thanks.
 
Media Player will not connect with radio stations as it used to.
When I click my old station, the application begins, and
I get the "connecting to media..." message, but it never connects.
I have no problems with it playing sounds and videos that are
on my hard disk. Another mystery is that I can't delete/uninstall
Media Player (I thought I would uninstall and re-install to see
if that might be the solution). When I try, I usually get the message
that it is being used by some other program, when it damn well
isn't!! When I actually go into the folder and try to delete the
app., it disappears for 10 or 15 seconds, then re-appears! It's
almost acting like a hijacker program or something. What's
the deal? Common problem? Thanks.
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Have you check to see if your firewall is blocking WMP from accessing the
Internet??? If you have SP2 installed, you normally have its firewall running.
 
Yves said:
Have you check to see if your firewall is blocking WMP from accessing the
Internet??? If you have SP2 installed, you normally have its firewall running.
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The only problem with that explanation is that everything ran fine just
a week or so ago, with no changes in the mean time that *should* change
things, so........
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In said:
Media Player will not connect with radio stations as it used to.
When I click my old station, the application begins, and
I get the "connecting to media..." message, but it never connects.
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I've seen this before, it has to do w/ an incompatable hotfix being
installed. reinstall WMP10 all over again, that should fix it. get the
latest full download here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/download/download.aspx

be sure to visit windows update after a few reboots, there was a recent
update [this week] that you should also have... latest version displayed
in About... box should be 10.00.00.4019 [note the above dl does NOT have
EVERY hotfix - you should only install a hotfix if it says it'll solve a
specific problem that you are having.]

wmp faq: http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html

versions info: http://home.arcor.de/carsthom/updates/wmp10_updates.html
[4019 update not yet listed there tho....]

search for all "known" problems w/ fixes:

http://search.microsoft.com/search/results.aspx?view=en-us&st=b&na=82&qu=fix+windowsmedia10&swc=3
 
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