Yeah, but I'd still like to know who's munging the association. They
shouldn't be doing that - it should be indicative of a bug in that other
software that they would want to fix. =\

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"hrljr" <hrljr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:uXQmKcK2HHA.536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Click on Start >Default Programs>Set Program Access and Computer
> Defaults>Scroll down and select Windows Media Player as default.
>
>
> "zachd [MSFT]" <zachd@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:u3Q5OZh1HHA.5740@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>
>> If that doesn't work:
>> What's a sample URL that doesn't "stream" for you?
>> The most likely cause of streaming not working in this fashion is that
>> the file associations have been munged by a misbehaving third party
>> application, which makes Internet Explorer suspect possible security
>> issues and thus disallow the streaming behavior.
>>
>> This would likely be a bug in the installer/associations for the other
>> player involved here...
>>
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>> "PaulB" <PaulB@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:239D8941-EFA2-4466-A96C-0E67EFFB98FA@microsoft.com...
>>> Go to tools in IE7 and then Internet options, Programs, manage add-ons
>>> and
>>> make sure windows meadia player is enabled
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>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>> "Logan" wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ok, Im using my windows media player and there is these sites with
>>>> pictures
>>>> and when you click them it gives you a preview and it would open in
>>>> Windows
>>>> media player without prompting me for DLing or anything, How do I make
>>>> it
>>>> stream I believe its called streaming? I dont want it to prompt me to
>>>> download I want it to open and buffer and stream like before, I dont
>>>> know how
>>>> it got changed. Help me please.
>>
>>
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