Hello Mike!

Monday June 06 2005 12:48, Mike Powell wrote to All:

 MP> Is there a freeware alternative to Windows Media Player that will
 MP> handle all of the media formats that WMP will play (audio and video)?
 MP>


I don't like REAL PLAYER...

I do like WinAmp Media Plyer for music..

 MP> A friend of mine is running Win98SE on an old machine that she mostly
 MP> uses for e-mail and light surfing.  When someone sends a Windows
 MP> Media
 MP> format file to her via attachment, she is unable to view it from
 MP> Hotmail.  It acts like it is working, and then presents an error.
 MP>
 MP> However, while I was looking at it, I was able to forward it to my
 MP> address (non-Hotmail), and we were then able to view it.  I am
 MP> wondering that, since Hotmail is a MS product, was it possible that
 MP> it, or WMP, were displaying these errors in an attempt to try to get
 MP> people to upgrade to WinXP and/or WMP 10.
 MP>
 MP> On a partially-related note, I did run a Windows Update, which
 MP> downloaded some critical updates to Windows, IE, and WMP.  After doing
 MP> so, the sound on the machine quit working.  When a sounds starts to
 MP> play, it "hangs" and either will not allow other sounds
to play from
 MP> that point on, or keeps playing until another sound
"pushes" it out,
 MP> and starts hanging on its own.
 MP>
 MP> Annoying to say the least.  I attempted to uninstall the WMP update,
 MP> but it was not listed as uninstallable.  Since the sound was working
 MP> fine before, I am leaning more towards it being a software problem
 MP> than a hardware problem (although I have seen hardware problems cause
 MP> this scenario before).
 MP>
 MP> Any ideas on that one?
 MP>
 MP> Mike
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Regards,
George Vandervort
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