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31 January 2010, 10:55 PM

CrisPDuk

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Windows Media Player stopped working

Ever since the last lot of security updates from Windows my media player has stopped working.

I've tried going through Windows help, but that won't start up either.

I've been through the Add/Remove program thing, but all that does is roll me back to a previous version that also doesn't work.

Any ideas?

One thing I did notice whilst trying to remove it, is that the security updates and hotfixes I've had over the last two years out-number all other installed programs by 3:1

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01 February 2010, 02:35 PM

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Download latest version of Windows Media Player and install it.

Alternatively as you have more than one issue occurring with help not working either do you have restore points to roll back to, i.e. is system restore activated on your operating system? If so you can roll back the state of the OS to before you did the updates.

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01 February 2010, 02:38 PM

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get vlc media player instead its alot better than wmp imo and will play virtualy every file type

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01 February 2010, 03:06 PM

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media player classic home cinema

(MPC HC)

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02 February 2010, 12:56 PM

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I've had this recently and needed to delete the database WMP creates and allow it to build a new one. This Microsoft link explains where it is and how you can remove it.