'1' wrote, in part:
| Or, if you have SP2 you can set it as your default player in 'Set
Program
| Access and Defaults' which can be found by Clicking on the start
menu>Set
| Program access....
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The method you recommend is not at all the same thing as selecting file
types in Windows Media Player.
Pretty clearly the original poster wants to make Windows Media Player the
default player for certain file types.
Windows Media Player allows selection all or any of eleven file types plus
DVD and CD playback for default playback.
Phil Weldon
| Or, if you have SP2 you can set it as your default player in 'Set
Program
| Access and Defaults' which can be found by Clicking on the start
menu>Set
| Program access....
|
| you asked this>>I don't see any way to bring up Media Player and then
tell
| it what to
| > | play. Is this possible?
|
| I'm not quite sure what you mean. Once you open WMP are you saying you
| can't figure out how to open files to play?
|
|
|
| | > 'Dan Drewry' wrote:
| > | I can't find the place to make Media Player the default player, so
help
| > | there would be appreciated.
| > | Since it is not the default, I wanted to force it to play my music,
but
| > | I don't see any way to bring up Media Player and then tell it what
to
| > | play. Is this possible?
| > _____
| >
| > The option to make 'Media Player' the default player is found in the
| > 'Tools'
| > section in the Windows Media Player toolbar.
| >
| > Click on 'Tools' in the 'Tool Bar' at the top of the screen.
| > Click on 'Options' in the drop-down menu.
| > Click on the 'File Types' Tab in the Options sheet.
| > Follow the directions at the top of the 'File types' list.
| > "Select the file types for which you want Windows Media Player to be
the
| > default player."
| > Click on 'Apply'.
| > Click on 'OK'.
| >
| > Or just open 'Windows Media Player' help and search for [ File types ]
| > (without the brackets.)
| > Follow the directions.
| >
| > Phil Weldon
| >
| >
| > | > |I can't find the place to make Media Player the default player, so
help
| > | there would be appreciated.
| > | Since it is not the default, I wanted to force it to play my music,
but
| > | I don't see any way to bring up Media Player and then tell it what
to
| > | play. Is this possible?
| > | Thanks.
| >
| >
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