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16-Jul-2007, 08:05 PM #1
Windows Media Player Problem
I just got a new Vista PC and I am having a problem setting up my player to work with my internet. The problem is this, whenever I click on a link to a video,song, radio the browser just takes the link and attempts to open it in the browser and does not find the link instead of opening the link in the Windows Media Player and playing the song, video, or radio.

I set the player as my default player but I am not sure if I did this for IE or how to do it. Does anybody know what I could do to fix this minor problem?

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16-Jul-2007, 08:14 PM #2
Do you know what types of links these are? You can change the default program for various file types/formats in Control Panel > Default Programs > Associate a File Type or Protocol...
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16-Jul-2007, 08:21 PM #3
wmx wmv mp3 links

and the media player is set as default for these but IE doesn't want to open it when I click on links with these extensions
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17-Jul-2007, 06:02 PM #4
anybody please!
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17-Jul-2007, 06:19 PM #5
Do you have any other players installed?
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17-Jul-2007, 07:35 PM #6
Nope, thats the only player its a brand new custom built computer and whatever came with the Windows Vista Home Premium is what I got. About 10 days of age now.
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